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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423927833
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-03T01:32:45.624Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DPB1uoGsSprXcU7gbXfTakCTtRUUsCBgkkyNovQmTZmk
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1276 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-03T01:32:45.542Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"737ea2a1-f789-4291-8882-6941910ad163","new_score":0,"page_slug":"armstrong-chindavanh-rucker-crypto-robbery-gang","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page is substantively accurate and well-sourced for a federal criminal investigation. The core facts — defendant identities, ages, charges, indictment date, arrest dates, locations, the $6.5 million forced transfer, and the Lachy Groom connection — are all confirmed by DOJ press releases and major news outlets. Three claims are partially supported: the '90-minute' ordeal duration is not confirmed in primary sources (the SF News article says 'over an hour'), 'pistol-whipped' appears in some secondary sources but not in the SFist investigative article, and the 'December 21' burner phone creation date appears to be a source-level error (the crime was November 22). The CertiK statistical context claims are confirmed by CertiK's own reports. One claim about specific indictment language could not be verified due to a 403 on the DOJ URL. No claims are disputed by more credible sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}