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_approve · Alameda
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423915253
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-03T00:09:14.904Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CS5YqrySJc8axZ7tuuWkbYrkNweQv15KnZA9LSfdmotZ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1252 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-03T00:09:14.700Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"52c9ebde-9e5e-4ddc-9f00-3cef6ab621b7","new_score":0,"page_slug":"alameda","prev_score":0,"reason":"The reviewer examined 33 discrete claims and confirmed 29 outright, with 3 rated partially_supported and 0 disputed (disputed_pct = 0.0%). The three partially_supported findings — claim_findings[2] and claim_findings[28] on the Alameda founding month (September vs. November 2017), and claim_findings[29] on the FTX launch month (April vs. May 2019) — are minor date ambiguities that do not touch any core allegation about fraud, misappropriation, or legal outcomes. All critical claims regarding fund misappropriation, trial convictions, sentences, and the CFTC judgment are confirmed by Tier 1 sources including the DOJ, CFTC, and contemporaneous news reporting. No link rot or stale citations were identified, and reviewer confidence is high at 0.92. Coverage gaps are present but all are medium or low priority; they suggest expansion opportunities rather than factual deficiencies warranting revision.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}