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 · DGLD
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 57 → 61 (+4)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465086427
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T23:38:46.566Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T23:38:55.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T23:38:55.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Hw4VS4dj3jMZwP4fXCjhxKjr8hgpzAcDXuBjV3uKQGPT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (710 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-11-03T23:38:45.242Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"1f5ae2a6-6a6a-4c56-908f-e2ddb5ce6981","new_score":61,"page_slug":"dgld","prev_score":57,"reason":"Recalculated after the fact-check of 2026-11-03. Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 57 → 61. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −12.8, problems around the subject, caused by others −1.6; legitimacy credit long-running +10; 1 section(s) set aside until a failed fact-check is resolved.","score_delta":4,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}