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 · Stars Arena
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 38 → 38 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443526528
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T17:03:52.245Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9btW2yUZznuNJei49tmxKT8XQKZvMcES1cmveCgsD4i8
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1262 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T17:03:43.246Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"e8f8bd4c-f2e4-4cec-8352-7c71d9fd1949","new_score":38,"page_slug":"stars-arena","prev_score":38,"reason":"The page's load-bearing claims — exploit mechanism (reentrancy in sellShares() via owner_a0 manipulation), exploit amount (266,103 AVAX / ~$2.9M), and recovery position (~90% returned via bounty negotiation, remainder covered by outside funding) — are all independently confirmed against primary reporting and independent security-firm analyses (Halborn, CertiK), with no overstatement of unrecovered harm detected. One timeline figure (TVL '3,400% to $1M in first week') is true but not supported by its own cited source, which reports a different TVL figure. The pre-seed funding close date (2024-10-01) is very likely a placeholder; the true date is October 15, 2024. The platform remains operational as of August 2026, so the page's operating-status claims are not false, but its 'Current Status' section is anchored to June 2025 data and omits a further ~80% decline in the ARENA token's market cap since then.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}