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
rescore · BB Trade Estonia OÜ
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-2)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 461962771
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-27T06:03:16.737Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-27T06:06:23.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-27T06:06:23.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DHc38MeRS3g5mZbNJxmtf9oKQdFc1Tg7dv6nhdfXVciK
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (524 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-27T06:03:16.687Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"3d3c9ede-721e-4b5a-9f3e-4e1c5b1d29f9","new_score":0,"page_slug":"bb-trade-estonia-o","prev_score":2,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 2 → 0. The page establishes that the subject is itself a scheme, so the score is 0.","score_delta":-2,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}