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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Donald Basile
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
4 → 4 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443511375
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T03:36:41.668Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
3VPFK6gLwfxFEpNttkWEf3m1YT41dWndbXKd8pAmCWq5
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1687 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T03:36:41.373Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"b48adfb8-e5cd-4d76-b81b-4b8cad81f371","new_score":4,"page_slug":"donald-basile","prev_score":4,"reason":"The reviewer checked 49 claims and found the page's central content — the April 2026 SEC civil fraud complaint against Basile, its specific dollar figures, statutory charges, requested relief, and the 2022 private lawsuits — fully supported by the SEC's own litigation release and independent reporting (claim_findings[1]-[15], [22]-[28]). Only 6.1% of claims were disputed, below the threshold for any score penalty. Two items, however, deserve reader attention even though they don't move the overall verdict: claim_findings[32] found the page's description of Basile as a Fusion-io 'co-founder' is disputed by independent sources, which credit two other individuals as founders and describe Basile joining about a year later as chairman then CEO; and claim_findings[22] found that the page's litigation section, while technically accurate in aggregate, is structured in a way that could lead a reader to believe Basile was personally sued in the Jonna Michigan case, when the original complaint in that case did not name him individually (he is a named defendant only in the separate Assofi California case). Both issues are corrigible edits rather than credibility-undermining errors, and none of the reviewer's six coverage gaps were flagged high priority, so they support future page expansion rather than an adverse verdict now.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}