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 · dYdX V3
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 30 → 30 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426273303
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T20:40:55.039Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Gd4vBs2goE6Y4injpAj4593iZe9aJkN1vDX88YW16keb
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1173 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-13T20:40:54.947Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b2c2dac1-0c41-4a88-a74f-5688f2c9dd12","new_score":30,"page_slug":"dydx-v3","prev_score":30,"reason":"The dYdX V3 investigation is well-sourced and factually accurate across nearly all discrete claims. The November 2023 insurance fund drain, the 2022 and 2026 supply chain attacks, the October 2024 V3 sunset, and leadership changes are all confirmed against primary and credible secondary sources. The two partial-support findings involve a minor oversimplification of the DNS hijacking root cause (the official postmortem reveals social engineering of customer service as the July 23 vector, not solely MFA disabled during migration) and a minor source-citation mismatch for Juliano's CEO return date. One claim — Hyperliquid's ATH TVL of exactly $870M — could not be precisely verified, though the directional claim is supported. A notable coverage gap is the absence of any reference to dYdX Trading Inc.'s 2023 CFTC settlement.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}