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
- #3
- Score
- 18 → 18 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443517178
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T19:48:06.146Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FPgHomt9gA5eroUcoXyBc8Mr8KGxVGeLv5nTkLHrwcMR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1708 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T19:48:05.954Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"4feace03-6746-48e9-a625-9cd1ac6e6351","new_score":18,"page_slug":"summer-finance-summer-fi-lazy-summer-protocol-flash-loan-exploit-and-shutdown","prev_score":18,"reason":"Of the 25 individual claims the reviewer checked, 21 were confirmed outright, 2 were partially supported, 1 was disputed, and 1 was flagged as stale, with none unverifiable. Using the reviewer's own methodology (disputed + unverifiable over total), that puts disputed content at 4%, well inside the approve range. The one disputed claim, claim_findings[14], is a numeric transposition describing the protocol's emergency multisig as '8-of-6' when governance documents say '6-of-8' -- the description of what that multisig could and couldn't do is accurate, only the ratio notation is backwards. The two partially-supported claims are a source misattribution (claim_findings[11], where an accurate premeditation timeline is credited to a security firm whose own published report doesn't contain that specific finding) and an incompletely-verified set of governance proposal numbers (claim_findings[19]). None of the four coverage gaps the reviewer identified were rated high priority, and the reviewer expressed reasonably high confidence (0.80) in its findings. The core narrative -- the loss amount, the exploit mechanism, the shutdown announcement, and the current no-recovery/no-compensation status -- is corroborated by the protocol's own post-mortem and independent press and holds up.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}