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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.

Decision
publish · Ambient Finance
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#1
Score
→
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
422792432
Off-chain at
2026-05-28T20:24:58.325Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
BnJd3J7qwwTE7TbDjyxV3Gvu4HQrmJkQYPRurjGzUagS
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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Canonical bytes hashed (3396 chars)
{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"da19cc17-dd96-47a4-a5de-9fd11102f484","kind":"publish","page_slug":"ambient","published_at":"2026-05-28T20:24:58.229Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"Ambient Finance","sections":[{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://docs.ambient.finance/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://defillama.com/protocol/ambient","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://crocswap.medium.com/ambient-finance-raises-seed-round-funding-78328f4fa7e","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://tokeninsight.com/en/news/decentralized-exchange-ambient-raises-6.5m-in-seed-round-led-by-blocktower-capital","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://coinpaper.com/5737/ambient-finance-recovers-domain-after-major-hack","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://mpost.io/blockaid-ambient-finance-front-end-suspected-to-be-hacked/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://crypto.news/defi-exchange-ambient-finance-recovers-domain-after-dns-attack/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://skynet.certik.com/projects/ambient-finance","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://cantina.xyz/blog/a-guide-to-prevent-dns-hijacking-for-web3","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://defillama.com/protocol/ambient","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://cryptorank.io/ico/ambient-finance","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://skynet.certik.com/projects/ambient-finance","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://ambient.finance/","type":"other","url":""}]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"Ambient Finance (formerly CrocSwap, operated by Crocodile Labs) is a decentralized exchange protocol that runs an entire DEX inside a single smart contract, combining concentrated and ambient liquidity on Ethereum and several L2 networks. On October 17, 2024, the protocol's frontend suffered a DNS hijacking attack deploying Inferno Drainer malware to drain wallets of users who interacted with the compromised site; the underlying smart contracts were unaffected and the team reimbursed all affected users in ETH. ZachXBT has flagged this entity.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-01-01","event":"Crocodile Labs founded by Douglas Colkitt; CrocSwap development begins.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-11","event":"Ambient Finance raises $6.5M seed round led by BlockTower Capital; Ethereum mainnet launch.","source":""},{"date":"2024-10-17","event":"DNS hijacking attack compromises ambient.finance frontend; Inferno Drainer malware deployed.","source":""},{"date":"2024-10-17","event":"Ambient confirms smart contracts unaffected; warns users not to interact with site.","source":""},{"date":"2024-10-20","event":"Original ambient.finance domain fully restored and secured.","source":""},{"date":"2024-10-26","event":"Full reimbursement in ETH completed for all affected users.","source":""}]},"v":1}