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
rescore · Predatory Sparrow (Gonjeshke Darande)
- Sequence
- #7
- Score
- 21 → 24 (+3)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 461965909
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-27T06:05:53.933Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-27T06:17:32.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-27T06:17:32.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CmZLr3EP7XNJsYrTq8KhDA4AYTp1AbcuRETsVEP4RuDL
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (719 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-27T06:05:53.882Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"f0b8d42e-a7c3-4496-9ac1-4b897646124e","new_score":24,"page_slug":"predatory-sparrow-gonjeshke-darande","prev_score":21,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 21 → 24. Problems weighed by who is responsible: the subject's own conduct −55, problems around the subject, caused by others −3; legitimacy credit long-running +8; 2 section(s) set aside until a failed fact-check is resolved; accepted community evidence −1.4.","score_delta":3,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}