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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

  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 · Stake DAO
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
57 → 57 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457655770
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T13:33:45.172Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T13:34:04.171Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
FgKUV8D5ZCMw9t1zcyoHd3XNQ8GoBW7SNGg5pyWAHMo8
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1756 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"f22b891e58062f7b93f838c65331ed27","decided_at":"2026-10-16T13:33:44.916Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.4615,"findings_hash":"2rSDw424z9v7147E3PBDBfsqrsS5xnYqhFbBM64hiyis","investigation_id":"22690c77-993d-44f5-aa47-0b2304ade6c1","mode":"findings_only","new_score":57,"page_content_hash":"7dfcbacf077cb2a4709d291564e2bf839bd224f0e25019b298758d3138f9ed8f","page_slug":"stake-dao","prev_score":57,"reason":"The page's core factual backbone is solid: the three security incidents (Nov 2023 BNB Chain LiquidityGauge/CAKE theft, March 2026 Votemarket oracle exploit, May 2026 vsdCRV deployer-key exploit) are all independently corroborated by primary sources (Stake DAO's own GitHub disclosure and governance forum) and multiple reputable outlets (The Block, The Defiant, Cointelegraph, Protos), with dollar figures, token amounts, and mechanisms matching closely. Founder biography and tokenomics figures are also well supported by primary docs and third-party profiles. Two defects stand out: a timeline entry's SDT all-time-low figure ($0.1750 on June 15, 2022) is contradicted by independently-checked trackers, which place the actual all-time low at $0.01523 on October 28, 2022; and the claim that OpenZeppelin co-founder Manuel Aráoz 'cited this incident' is not supported by the sources — his 'all of DeFi is unsafe' remarks predate the exploit and never mention Stake DAO. A handful of lesser claims (SDT's $3.90 launch price, $0.73 January 2024 price, Blockchain Africa speaking engagement, the 'second attempt blocked' detail) could not be verified either way.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}