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 · Bybit
- Sequence
- #9
- Score
- 82 → 80 (-2)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 463743842
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-31T15:45:13.818Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-31T15:45:45.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-31T15:45:45.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7Dg2i7zdrG1WvugBQ6Rs2XiXKgUs2iu23ypyGBGZGmnU
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (586 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-31T15:45:13.521Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"cc5d2629-b918-4554-b41b-cf765ff31285","new_score":80,"page_slug":"bybit","prev_score":82,"reason":"FBI IC3 PSA states DPRK was responsible for the ~$1.5B theft from Bybit on or about Feb 21, 2025, tracked as TraderTraitor.","score_delta":-2,"sequence_num":9,"submission_content_hash":"b5e2ca2e27bee8c53f6832381d9d026f62016311604ed57f3c90e8570af24be8","submission_id":"26109618-b092-474c-bd3a-f266e4ea2cbe","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}