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
review · Filecoin
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 55 → 55 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425401933
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T20:39:52.497Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- AgdmgW3DYs1H55tNfe4LZKbUUJpwTWjRiPsf2iM7Tq3f
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (994 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T20:39:52.451Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"5143afe3-d212-407e-97cb-2ae4178d2133","new_score":55,"page_slug":"filecoin","prev_score":55,"reason":"The Filecoin investigation page is broadly accurate in its factual claims, with all major assertions about the ICO, Protocol Labs founding, miner protests, and delistings independently confirmed. The primary issues are a citation mismatch where the Baker McKenzie source covers the SEC-Grayscale comment letter rather than the Binance lawsuit directly, one inaccessible link (BeInCrypto, HTTP 403), and a minor misattribution of the mining crisis denial to Juan Benet when the Forkast source attributes it to network lead Molly Mackinlay. The page has significant coverage gaps in on-chain analysis, post-2024 SEC status, and network utility metrics.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}