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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443517957
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T22:40:31.176Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2ZoYX31W5Gq8B1F8WzAbppimVWc3t2Wa9GC8Yca6k7T2
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1117 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T22:40:31.087Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"c1e79c32-018b-450b-855c-d8d387fea579","new_score":0,"page_slug":"dprk-crypto-theft-h1-2026-trm-labs-blockaid-report","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's major factual pillars (the Drift, KelpDAO, and Humanity Protocol exploits; the OFAC sanctions action; and the general scale of DPRK crypto theft in H1 2026) are well supported by independent reporting. However, the page misattributes its lead statistic to the wrong TRM Labs article (citing an April 30 YTD-through-April report as the source for a $643M/two-thirds figure that actually comes from a separate, uncited July 1 TRM Labs report), overstates TRM Labs' and Elliptic's role in the specific UNC4736 attribution for Drift (which primary reporting attributes to Drift itself, SEAL 911, and Mandiant), and repeats a $75 million Arbitrum freeze figure that consistently-reported independent sources put at $71 million.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}