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.
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 17 → 14 (-3)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457920415
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T05:28:12.642Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T05:28:37.636Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- AZvDjHWAeH7Ld1wkxx4VYByK165tCh9d6KicB8wNBadJ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (736 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T05:28:12.404Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"a9cdc7b5-15a1-4e71-857b-15faed45731b","new_score":14,"page_slug":"coldcard-coinkite-firmware-seed-entropy-exploit-multi-actor-august-2026","prev_score":17,"reason":"TechCrunch confirms Galaxy Research's ~$130M stolen estimate from the Coldcard firmware flaw, at least a dozen distinct attacking groups, and victim Jonathan Goodman's claimed $1.6M loss — matching the note.","score_delta":-3,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"7638e7f77509bb34ca3d0d0b8b93de6c8cabbcc116f67e65a971d0dadc1717f8","submission_id":"b2c8355a-e2c6-4b33-a5ac-e83c90e9abc9","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}