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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
#3
Score
40 (-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)
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2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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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}