Verify a decision
Every moderation decision on AVOID.NET is anchored to the Solana blockchain. You don't have to trust us — you can verify cryptographically that we committed to a verdict at a specific moment and have not rewritten it.
How verification works
- We commit. When a moderator accepts/rejects a submission, we serialize the decision into deterministic UTF-8 bytes (
payload_canonical_string), hash it with SHA-256, encode the digest as base58, and write it to Solana inside an SPL Memo v2 transaction. - We store the bytes. The exact bytes we hashed are stored alongside the decision in our database. Anyone can read them and recompute the hash in any language.
- You compare three values. Database hash, your independently-recomputed hash, and the hash inside the on-chain memo. If all three match, the decision is authentic and timestamped.
The on-chain memo format is
AVOID.NET|v1|h:<b58-sha256>|d:<id>|t:<iso>Find a signature on any investigation page's decision log, or run python -m src.verify_decision --signature <sig> for a CLI check.
Decision
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 12 → 0 (-15)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523056
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T03:17:30.396Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2rVttVTEqT6vSemPXZdpwfjqMvDo6ZQPXnC4jwdvAey6
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (3525 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-27T03:17:30.077Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"10136f6a-2bee-480a-8bf6-009e08eb7474","new_score":0,"page_slug":"ofac-operation-economic-outcast-iran-digital-assets-sectoral-sanctions-august-2026","prev_score":12,"reason":"I independently counted the review's claim_findings array and found 35 entries (29 confirmed, 5 partially_supported, 1 disputed, 0 unverifiable/stale/link_rot), not the 36 claims and 30 confirmed the summary block reports. One claim the summary counts is not present in the array and cannot be inspected, so a small piece of this review's coverage is simply missing rather than good or bad. Either way disputed_pct rounds to about 3% (1/35 or 1/36), which alone sits in the approve band. However, the review also logged a high-priority coverage gap: the page frames Executive Order 13902 as 'the legal vehicle' for the entire 24 August 2026 action, but the reviewer verified against the Treasury press release that Ivan Obukhov and Mohammad Ahmed Suhil Fattouh were actually designated under the terrorism-financing authority (E.O. 13224), and the Mabna Institute cyber actors plus Arman Kahzadian under the cyber-sanctions authority (E.O. 13694) (claim_findings[3], [14], [15], [16]). Because those findings were coded partially_supported rather than disputed, this material framing problem does not register in disputed_pct at all, even though it understates the legal severity attached to some of the page's most prominent crypto-linked designees. The review's decision rules direct that a high-priority coverage gap should push toward review_revise even where disputed_pct is low, and I've applied that instruction here rather than letting a technically-low disputed_pct default to approval of a page with this specific unaddressed defect. Compounding this, the review's lone disputed finding is a quotation attributed to law firm Foley Hoag ('inverts the normal sequence') that the reviewer confirmed, via direct fetch and targeted search of the cited post, does not appear anywhere in that source (claim_findings[7]) — a fabricated attribution rather than a wrong figure. A second, related problem was found in a partially_supported finding: a 'stablecoins... circumvents SWIFT' characterization attributed to a Chainalysis post that the reviewer could not find in that post (claim_findings[26]). Weighed against this, the review's core factual backbone — designee identities, roles and locations, the ~60-designee count, the 30 wallet addresses, $16.8M and $202,662 figures, the 92% concentration figure, DOJ-sourced Mabna Institute statistics, the 7 August Shelbit/Aban Tether action, and Nobitex background — was independently corroborated against Treasury and DOJ primary sources. Two citations returned 403/429 on automated fetch, but the reviewer corroborated the underlying claims through independent alternate sources rather than simply asserting they held up, which is the correct way to avoid over-penalizing likely bot-blocking as link rot. On balance, this is a page with a sound factual core undermined by an unaddressed legal-authority framing gap on its most serious designations and two separate instances of unsupported attributions to named professional sources — enough to require revision, not enough, at ~3% disputed content and 0.75 reviewer confidence, to escalate further.","score_delta":-15,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}