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_revise · Darwin Labs Private Limited
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 4 → 0 (-14)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443512290
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T07:25:57.960Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- E6gW5R4PSNoxosouc7YQQoQ9WeujcBpoSzJy4NqxcXtt
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1893 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T07:25:57.713Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"5087a9e8-fd5e-4a03-bda7-7972b43a30c8","new_score":0,"page_slug":"darwin-labs-private-limited","prev_score":4,"reason":"The page's factual reporting holds up well: 40 of 48 claims were independently confirmed, including word-for-word verification of direct quotations and a direct match against corporate registry data, and only 1 claim (8.3%) was found disputed — well within the approve range on numbers alone. However, the review identified two high-priority coverage gaps that go to the current legal status of the three named individuals at the center of the page's criminal allegations: it omits that Ayush Varshney was granted bail on April 7, 2026 with the court explicitly finding 'no iota of evidence' he induced or received money from any investor (claim_findings[33], marked stale), and it never addresses that co-founders Baghla and Jain were released on High Court bail years ago or that no charge sheet has been filed against any of the three men (coverage_gaps[0] and coverage_gaps[1], both priority: high). A related timeline entry (claim_findings[36]) is disputed on its date and compounds the same omission. None of this undermines the underlying CBI allegations themselves, which remain independently corroborated — the issue is that the page reads as if the men remain in unresolved custody when more recent, exculpatory developments exist and are missing. That combination — a judicial finding of no evidence, on a page naming three living individuals in connection with active criminal charges — is serious enough to require revision before republication, even though the low disputed_pct alone would not have triggered it.","score_delta":-14,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}