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 · Thodex
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419572076
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-13T23:45:41.748Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2VaRzGSN3bzCkNvpqa2XWKJbiQGA7uq2WxK2wNm4tbGH
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1100 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-13T23:45:41.650Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ec668271-ea2d-4e62-b245-709cf455e343","new_score":0,"page_slug":"thodex","prev_score":0,"reason":"The Thodex investigation page is broadly accurate and well-sourced across its core narrative — the founding, collapse, pursuit, extradition, conviction, and death of Faruk Fatih Özer are all confirmed by multiple credible outlets. The most significant factual error is the claim that Turkey was removed from the FATF grey list in June 2022; this is directly contradicted by the FATF's own official records and multiple reputable sources confirming the actual removal date was June 28, 2024. A secondary error is a timeline date entry of 2021-04-01 for events (asset freeze, mass detentions) that actually occurred in late April 2021. A third minor issue is the conflation of 62 detained with formal arrest of siblings, though the siblings' arrest is confirmed.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}