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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · OKB
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
33 → 33 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457631708
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T12:07:19.398Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T12:07:22.165Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
BUw2a8igMqwMGjU4SBiwoqxW4iHTmrk3xCmwEStqeSup
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2114 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"5696db03df0c88d8f73b7cefb31821f4","decided_at":"2026-10-16T12:07:19.184Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.28,"findings_hash":"DDV5dCmtNQjpzGrJL9zXbjyjUxnQFGmzf651eAp5xz1y","investigation_id":"1ed1bc35-7c4b-4a6f-8e5d-c4227c374a01","mode":"findings_only","new_score":33,"page_content_hash":"f7db41ef5b41cbf8967510cb21e3fc4e677a85c254db9bbe171614c8c924fe58","page_slug":"okb","prev_score":33,"reason":"The page's core narrative — the February 2025 DOJ guilty plea and $504M penalty, the Lazarus Group/Bybit DEX-aggregator episode, the Malta FIAU fine, the January 2024 OKB flash crash and CFTC subpoena, the June 2024 SIM-swap incidents, the Philippines SEC advisory, and the August 2025 OKB tokenomics overhaul — is well-sourced and holds up against independent verification of the cited DOJ, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Block, and CoinMarketCap sources. The most significant defect is a cluster of date errors in the ICIJ 'Coin Laundry' section: the Huione Group Treasury designation is dated May 2024 on the page (in both the prose and the timeline) when FinCEN actually proposed it in May 2025, and the $226M flow window is given as starting February 2024 rather than February 2025 (the actual guilty-plea-adjacent window ICIJ reported). A separate, unrelated arithmetic error describes the Malta fine as coming 'three months post-settlement' when the page's own timeline shows it was about six weeks after the DOJ plea. The summary also directly contradicts the page's own Founders section on OKX's founding year (2017 vs. the correct 2013). A $95 million Xinbi Guarantee/OKX figure could not be verified in either cited ICIJ article or general search and should be treated as unverified pending a direct check of the ICIJ case file. No cited URLs were found dead on refetch (two sources were already marked 'unarchivable' in the input and returned bot-blocking 403s rather than content-not-found, consistent with that status).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}