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 · Lazarus Group
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 0 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423204305
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-30T17:44:53.042Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BHhfA4syMu89Jemm2Mu4SXnPsq7A5KxVx5k7QiFpmLa4
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1421 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-30T17:44:52.847Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"dae6a999-8c54-4b12-a684-c76c4cb85492","new_score":0,"page_slug":"lazarus-group","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page is broadly accurate and well-sourced across 33 checked claims, with primary government sources (FBI, DOJ, OFAC, CISA, Treasury) corroborating all major incident descriptions. Three claims are disputed, two of which are the same factual error repeated in different locations: the page incorrectly states OFAC first designated Lazarus Group on 'April 3, 2018' (claim_findings[2]) and separately states OFAC 'added' the group to the SDN list 'on April 14, 2022' in the summary and overview (claim_findings[26]). Both contradict Treasury press release SM774 (Tier 1), which establishes September 13, 2019 as the correct initial designation date; April 14, 2022 was only an update adding a Ronin Bridge wallet address. The third disputed claim (claim_findings[6]) is a one-address discrepancy in the FBI Bybit PSA count (51 stated vs. 50 verified). No link rot or stale sources were found, and reviewer confidence is high at 0.86. Revisions should correct the OFAC initial designation date throughout the page and verify the FBI address count against the live PSA.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}