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 · Thorchain DEX
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 22 → 22 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 422972029
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-29T16:10:48.255Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 39GPjHUDhGxzCsVCqZ7PRMCFMxVS1AWyHfVajq8cEMnq
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1163 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-29T16:10:48.165Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"05cd7768-ea55-47f0-a1ae-da562e54f3a7","new_score":22,"page_slug":"thorchain-dex","prev_score":22,"reason":"The investigation page is substantially accurate on the most serious allegations — the Lazarus Group laundering operation ($1.2B, 85% of Bybit hack), the THORFi insolvency and halt ($209M frozen January 23, 2025), the May 2026 vault exploit ($10.7-11M via GG20 TSS), and the developer resignations over ethics. The primary inaccuracy is the claim that three exploit events totaled 'over $25 million': credible sources including THORChain's own post-mortem put the 2021 exploit total at approximately $16 million, not $25 million. Several timeline dates are also imprecise placeholders (June 1 for mainnet, February 1 for Pluto resignation, January 1 for identity reveal) rather than actual event dates. The sections structure is empty of content body, which limits section-level claim verification to sources only.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}