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
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 0 → 0 (-18)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 462279882
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-28T00:50:54.936Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-28T00:51:14.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-28T00:51:14.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3MZVLKE9xa57re5QG9SM2RyQc2oeX81gfeH6tgSGWVDT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1409 chars)
{"actor":"judge","artifact_identity":"ef18925be7e2c3a6440bbf063432ae47","band_override":null,"decided_at":"2026-10-28T00:50:54.710Z","decision":"review_revise","delist_requested":false,"disputed_pct":0.4444,"investigation_id":"96a99efb-c38c-47c4-92bc-39250d4138c1","judge_def_hash":"8800307026131ea9d5da939d32b9a1f1884b2b84a5de33c8e87931d36f38d0f8","new_score":0,"page_slug":"ko-thet-company-sanduo-group-giant-company-pig-butchering-network","prev_score":0,"reason":"Of 8 claims checked, 1 was disputed and 3 could not be verified (claim_findings[2], [4], [5], [7]), giving 50% disputed or unverifiable, which falls in the significant-issues band. The core allegations (arrests, named defendants, case numbers, penalties) were confirmed against the DOJ release (claim_findings[0], [3]). The main defect is that the $701 million figure belongs to the separate Shunda compound action but is presented as takedown proceeds, and the page's own sections conflict on this (claim_findings[1], [2]). The unverified items are mostly secondary figures the reviewer did not fetch sources for, and reviewer confidence was moderate (0.6), so the penalty sits at the lenient end of the band.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":-18,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}