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
review_revise · Taiko
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 38 → 26 (-12)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443526667
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T17:07:40.505Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5QpTwsowauZNh1Yj7tagb9LF73rZaLyZmwMLyaAjXbty
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2057 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-27T17:07:40.337Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"acbf7d40-7b57-4717-869d-bcf63a1d1f69","new_score":26,"page_slug":"taiko","prev_score":38,"reason":"Independent fact-checking confirmed the page's core technical description (Ethereum-equivalent Type 1 zkEVM, based contestable rollup, SGX+ZK multi-proof design) and the mechanics of the June 2026 bridge exploit, but found two disputed items and one materially outdated section. The page credits 'BlockSec' with identifying the exploit's root cause, but the page's own cited sources (The Defiant, CryptoTimes, plus Etherscan's exploiter tag) instead credit Blockaid, PeckShield, and Quill Audits (claim_findings[3]) — a named-firm attribution error. A timeline entry dates an SP1/Plonky3 vulnerability disclosure to 2025-01-01, a placeholder day, when the sourced disclosure is January 27, 2025 (claim_findings[14]). Separately, the Incident Response section stops at a June 25, 2026 update and omits that the bridge fully reopened on July 2, 2026 with affected users reportedly made whole, leaving readers with the impression the incident is still unresolved nearly two months after it was closed (claim_findings[8], coverage_gaps[0], high priority). Four additional findings on specific L2BEAT parameters (permissionless delay periods, TVS concentration, exit-window absence) were marked unverifiable solely because the reviewer's tool repeatedly failed to load l2beat.com, not because any figure was shown to be wrong (claim_findings[10], [11], [12], [15]); these are treated as open questions rather than confirmed errors and are weighted lightly. Counting disputed and unverifiable claims together yields roughly 29% of all claims checked, which sits just below the 30% threshold that would place the page under investigation, so the page is being sent back for correction rather than flagged or delisted.","score_delta":-12,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}