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
- #2
- Score
- 6 → 6 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514442
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:27:23.128Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9ng7w6Uacnv8TsNLpXbpCH3CScMaiTRDrDx929oPK33Q
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1394 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:27:22.827Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"1f1b480b-ecf3-4765-aada-13a43c6d4a2f","new_score":6,"page_slug":"broox-bauer-axiom-insider-trading-ring","prev_score":6,"reason":"The large majority of factual claims on this page are well supported by Tier 1/2 reporting and, where checked, by ZachXBT's own primary-source posts, including the exact wallet address, dollar figures, dates, and named participants (Bauer, Ryan/Ryucio, Gowno/Seb, and an appropriately hedged 'Mystery'). However, five claim instances across four distinct issues are disputed: Axiom's public statement is misquoted as 'shocked' rather than the sourced 'surprised' (appearing once in the response section and again in the timeline); the page states ZachXBT's retaining party was undisclosed, when a cited source quotes him saying he was retained by Axiom itself; and the Polymarket section and its corresponding timeline entry both assert that specific wallets were 'connected to Bauer or his associates,' a link not established in any source reviewed, which instead describe the bettors as unidentified. The 'ring' framing in the title is also broader than the hedged, multi-employee language used in most primary sourcing.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}