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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
review · HTX
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#6
Score
3 → 3 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514395
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:15:54.402Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
65tYPB445z5WZavg7Dg2w32sMMjpibKeCaTzuMKtLbhm
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1877 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:15:54.333Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"209069f2-af57-47e8-baef-8d5873d176e2","new_score":3,"page_slug":"htx","prev_score":3,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. HTX (formerly Huobi) is a major cryptocurrency exchange with 55 million registered users and $3.3 trillion in 2025 trading volume — it is a legitimate, operating business, not an exit scam or Ponzi scheme. The current score of 18 (CRITICAL, fraud band) is over-penalized. The security incidents driving the score were external hacks suffered by HTX: the September 2023 $7.9M hot wallet theft and November 2023 ~$97-115M combined HECO bridge and hot wallet exploit, both attributed to external attackers, with HTX compensating affected users. The more serious concerns are forward-looking regulatory risks: the UK FCDO's May 2026 sanctions designation for alleged Russia sanctions evasion ($1.5B in alleged flows through Garantex/Grinex) is genuinely severe and unprecedented (first crypto exchange sanctioned under this framework), and FCA legal proceedings for illegal UK financial promotions are confirmed. Additionally, reserve opacity is a material concern — Protos documented that HTX's PoR conflates liquid USDT with Sun-linked stUSDT, lent-out Aave positions, and wrapped tokens. Justin Sun's pending SEC fraud charges (no conviction) add further governance risk. Taken together, these factors justify a WARNING band score around 28: elevated fraud/loss risk with serious unresolved regulatory and sanctions issues, but not evidence of direct fraud against users that would warrant CRITICAL.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}