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
rescore · Pi Network (PI)
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 14 → 26 (+12)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 455362761
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-10T18:42:54.440Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-10T18:59:50.974Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BJ9QYJBVP7fz5ZbaCGS5EmcVok2AqCWgmfp39189LmKj
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (831 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:42:54.347Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"d49e2e18-9214-4172-a653-aef4be4ca701","new_score":26,"page_slug":"pi-network","prev_score":14,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 14 → 26. Problems weighed by who is responsible: the subject's own conduct −55, concerns that are not fraud −21.2, incidents the subject suffered −6, problems around the subject, caused by others −1.1; legitimacy credit long-running +10; no established finding that it defrauded anyone, so it stays out of the red band; fact-check adjustments (−8) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.","score_delta":12,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}