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_approve · Step Finance
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 12 → 52 (+40)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426701003
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-15T19:50:06.440Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- F2YpibrDgk5oCejVW8NeqaQecYYwTTxKLGtvSNJ3tuMG
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1356 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-15T19:50:06.249Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"6670b7ec-4df8-4b8c-8b6d-d167cc148fd6","new_score":52,"page_slug":"step-finance","prev_score":12,"reason":"The review confirmed 13 of 19 claims outright, with 4 partially supported and only 1 disputed (claim_findings[9]: the STEP all-time high date, listed as September 12, 2021, is contradicted by CoinGecko and CoinCodex, which place the true ATH in April 2021). This is a peripheral data point — it does not affect the core narrative. The entity is an unambiguous hack victim: an external attacker compromised executive devices on January 31, 2026, draining 261,854 SOL confirmed across multiple Tier 1 sources (BleepingComputer, The Record, Decrypt, CoinDesk). There is no evidence of own-fraud, exit scam, or insider misappropriation. The current score of 12 (CRITICAL) conflicts directly with the scoring rubric, which reserves CRITICAL for confirmed large-scale fraud and caps suffered-hack events at the CAUTIONARY band. The reviewer's recommended score of 52 (CAUTIONARY) is well-supported. A calibration correction to 52 is warranted; this review approves the page content as substantially accurate.","score_delta":40,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}