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_revise · ZRX (0x Protocol)
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 62 → 50 (-12)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443520852
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T11:58:05.794Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9yfF4zUDpDo7wyyL8BrqQPeoLDrhtP1g9ykGY4AGzC48
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1628 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-26T11:58:05.416Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"69488b83-ebdf-40f0-8308-e1d2007a0d7b","new_score":50,"page_slug":"zrx-0x-protocol","prev_score":62,"reason":"The page's core historical record — the 2017 ICO and tokenomics, the 2019 v2.0 exchange-contract vulnerability, and the September 2023 CFTC settlement — is thoroughly supported by primary sources, and only 3 of 33 claims (9.1%) were formally disputed, just under the approval threshold. However, the disputed items are not trivial: a security firm was misattributed on the SwapNet exploit analysis (claim_findings[19]), a governance vote was misdated by two years (claim_findings[20]), and a market-rank claim is contradicted by current data (claim_findings[29]). A separate finding shows the CFTC section overstates ZeroEx's specific legal exposure by folding in registration-failure charges that applied only to co-respondents Opyn and Deridex (claim_findings[14]), and the Token Utility section presents ZRX governance and staking as active when 0x's own current guidance describes both as dormant (claim_findings[25]). Most decisive is a high-priority coverage gap: the page omits Will Warren's May 2026 departure as co-CEO and still describes him as CEO without qualification (coverage_gaps[0]) — this alone is sufficient, per the review criteria, to move the page from approval to revision even though the disputed-claim rate is technically below the approval line.","score_delta":-12,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}