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 · Clockwork
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 68 → 68 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 424178319
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-04T05:14:50.453Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7pTSUMMR5htAnv6H8ypAQ1j8fVje41FVLm4sXaz89AE4
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (968 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-04T05:14:50.323Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"688a8c90-57d9-408f-82ea-822fbbe378bc","new_score":68,"page_slug":"clockwork","prev_score":68,"reason":"The Clockwork investigation page is well-sourced and accurate on all material claims. The $4M funding, investor names, hackathon prize, shutdown date, founder identity, and GitHub statistics are all independently confirmed. Minor issues include inconsistency in Garfield's title (page says 'founder' throughout; the 2022 CoinDesk article and LinkedIn use 'co-founder'), an unverifiable specific list of three named alternative projects, and three sources with access issues (CoinTelegraph 404, The Block 403, CryptoNews 403/Unchained 403) that reduce direct source verifiability without undermining the claims they support.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}