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
accept · Bitget Exchange (Shawn Liu)
- Sequence
- #19
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465625220
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-05T07:43:05.177Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-05T07:43:30.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-05T07:43:30.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5EE8Fsy1HPuYNZx294Ere7k7fPhthuqUUDjvSUxpBapB
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (610 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-05T07:43:04.860Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"3d4730c1-4369-4e11-80d9-494b6fb43800","new_score":0,"page_slug":"bitget-exchange-shawn-liu","prev_score":0,"reason":"Decrypt (Sept 25, 2026) reports ~$387.5M lost from Bitget, with North Korea the likely but unconfirmed suspect. Matches the note.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":19,"submission_content_hash":"06f8ccd68cd599fa81c93d9ac8c700a3eaaa4eb6ae1f53eb7ef11ff22724ca6e","submission_id":"00e6833c-7fb2-40e8-ae0d-7fc46ba2fcb1","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}