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
accept · Storj Labs
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 58 → 58 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465020566
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T19:43:00.776Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T19:43:32.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T19:43:32.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3fLzjjDcdtymXrdZqB3zSSzbgG3qyxsHAtwzFziZqX6F
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (608 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T19:43:00.358Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"f12aad5f-8d71-4276-a66a-901e1f6e10e1","new_score":58,"page_slug":"storj-labs","prev_score":58,"reason":"CoinDesk confirms Storj Labs Chapter 11 in N.D. West Virginia, the shared-ownership plan, and the 16% STORJ drop to about 6 cents. Neutral context.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"bf17c590986ec6750736c55e269616a703ea0ed54819e8049f9b262a08e34080","submission_id":"038a3c85-cbe5-4b32-9cff-0a973f94a30e","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"neutral","v":1}