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 · Ben Pasternak / Believe / LAUNCHCOIN
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 6 → 6 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443521460
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T15:13:16.354Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Cr5QJd3cwzSRxzoaxwsgtc7BvN2GTEr5ACsNQUZETLMZ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1370 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T15:13:15.942Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"2a623f6b-0253-430c-bb2b-3ec76d9c4b26","new_score":6,"page_slug":"ben-pasternak-believe-launchcoin","prev_score":6,"reason":"The page's civil-litigation content (Section 3, the alleged rug-pull scheme) was directly verified against the actual filed complaint and is quoted and characterized accurately, including verbatim quotes and internally consistent dilution arithmetic. The assault/strangulation arrest is independently and solidly corroborated. However, the page's claim of a separate federal criminal indictment for crypto fraud -- asserted flatly in the summary and given its own section -- is not corroborated by any primary document (the complaint itself never mentions criminal charges, no DOJ/SDNY press release was found, and the page's own tier-1 sources describe only a civil suit); it appears to trace to a cluster of lower-tier aggregator sites reusing the same wording. The LAUNCHCOIN peak market cap figure ($370M) conflicts with the figure stated in the primary complaint ($240M). Two source-list integrity gaps were found (one orphaned master-list source, two inline citations missing from the master list).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}