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.
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457563761
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T08:03:15.682Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T08:03:28.211Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9b765d29crShG9W11p7p7vLiq1m8c3c5pryEaj2zG3RW
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2101 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"a45ac2eeefa0dc74d24a613cc00e6a50","decided_at":"2026-10-16T08:03:15.413Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2727,"findings_hash":"6AGjpF7u1pF8vtMiEe1k4BDdsxYtgBfs41MM35izPwro","investigation_id":"e5e9168d-7847-4457-a735-e58b23759dfd","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"1c266eb1129cd81ccd2632f4d7e4d6eae98a79b3ba6d41b52a97c839aa59093e","page_slug":"gotbit-vortex-antier-contrarian-doj-crypto-market-maker-manipulation-ring","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative — the March 30, 2026 DOJ announcement, the four-firm/ten-defendant scope, the Operation Token Mirrors/NexFundAI sting, Gotbit's guilty plea and sentencing, and the Vortex/Contrarian indictments and Singapore extraditions — is well-supported by DOJ press materials, TRM Labs, Decrypt, Reuters wire coverage, and (where checked directly) the underlying federal criminal complaint and SEC press release. Two concrete errors were found and should be corrected: the SEC Parallel Civil Enforcement section incorrectly lists MyTrade MM as an SEC civil defendant (the SEC's own release names only Gotbit, CLS Global, and ZM Quant — MyTrade was only a DOJ criminal co-defendant), and the statute citation '18 U.S.C. §§ 1349 and 1343' does not match the conspiracy statute (§ 371) actually used in the Andriunin criminal complaint. A set of specific operational statistics attributed to the sting (the $200/six-hour volume offer, 99%/1,221 wallet-transaction figure, $15,000 transferred, $5,000/month pricing) could not be verified against any source consulted and should be sourced more precisely or softened. The Andriunin sentencing description, while technically matching the official DOJ figure of eight months, omits the widely reported nuance that this amounted to time already served with no further custody. A citation URL mismatch for a BeInCrypto source (two different slugs used for the same article) was also found.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}