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
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457771242
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T20:29:56.826Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T20:30:56.853Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- J6krrJJGFEKCoxFsStLNGXbGKospuuB6DDiH7nLPoYD4
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (851 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T20:29:56.510Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"db5d0bd1-e00a-4022-a5f9-e80dacf78503","new_score":0,"page_slug":"patrick-steven-yaroch-fbi-agent-crypto-theft","prev_score":0,"reason":"NBC News confirms the federal charges against former FBI agent Patrick Yaroch over ~$925,426 in stolen crypto, and his stated motive of frustration over the government's inaction on adversarial-nation crypto accounts, matching the note. This is public-record criminal reporting on charges already covered by the existing page, not private-life content.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":"98107be868a6c9d3b20cf221338ac08056288fac171aaa75c884f28e79c280d3","submission_id":"41d5b675-9bce-4e94-b9d2-3458a9bd8f2e","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}