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
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457754201
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T19:28:56.848Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T19:29:22.999Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 87uBXXyg8Vw2rdYZhSpDPf2b7C784hB8omtdNXTLhNNX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2149 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"44b0c9e1e5c2ebb2905d5ae901c5f9fd","decided_at":"2026-10-16T19:28:56.517Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2,"findings_hash":"2bL8cStqSXr1YdojoArPVZz3uRnV7LX5Fvj5mvTh36Ry","investigation_id":"7f3566f6-b222-4575-8585-455856068743","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"630984bc13ac1fb4ea766fe462db2ed3111aa0a2fd07fdd08355714dc82e04ad","page_slug":"irs-fake-digital-asset-compliance-portal-letter-campaign-2026","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative — a physical-mail phishing campaign impersonating the IRS with a fake 'Digital Asset Compliance Portal,' the July 30, 2026 IRS-CI denial and Koopman quotes, the Hong Kong-registrar/Romania-hosting infrastructure traced by Coinbase and DarkTower, and the CP53E QR-code clarification — is well supported by the cited sources, which I independently verified against the IRS's own fraud alert and several of the named outlets. Two clear defects were found: the claim that the 2026 Dirty Dozen list was 'published in May 2026' is contradicted by the page's own cited IRS.gov source, which is dated April 10, 2026 (the broader Dirty Dozen release is dated March 5, 2026); and two sections misattribute a journalist's editorial framing ('well-organised, internationally-coordinated fraud') to Coinbase and DarkTower as if it were their direct characterization, when the phrase traces to a Bitdefender Hot for Security writer's own assessment. Several secondary figures (TIGTA cumulative totals, Bolster AI's 152-domain/82%-malicious statistic, the August 10 deadline date, the explicit 'four stages' framing) are plausible and broadly consistent with the source material but could not be pinned to primary documents or are presented with more precision/scope than the underlying reporting supports. No accepted community submissions were present to review. The page's timeline and currency claims have not been refreshed since early August 2026 despite more than two months having passed.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}