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
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443513396
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T10:18:29.050Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GK7HXbavSWYxu3BdPobobdSDbbEzVZjWmPUxQ47C2DNV
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1151 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T10:18:28.744Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"dcd3faf6-e783-4746-9ca1-4872d064cb39","new_score":2,"page_slug":"star-credit-holdings-misam-m-abidi","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual claims — the June 2026 federal indictment (charges, penalties, alleged conduct, officials, quotes), the May 2024 Tennessee state securities action (defendants, alleged losses, quotes), the Satori Credit Solutions regulatory history, and the gubernatorial-candidacy details — are all independently corroborated by primary DOJ/IRS/TDCI sources and multiple secondary outlets, with no fabricated conduct categories, no misattributed quotes, and correct differentiation between Abidi's individual federal exposure and the broader state co-defendant action. One quoted statement is a condensed paraphrase rather than a verbatim quote, and one editorial claim about relative media coverage volume is unverifiable; no disputed or contradicted claims were identified.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}