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 · Kraken
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 62 → 62 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 417878526
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-06T02:50:06.145Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FiknahbcEpzaSS9kmjyeq2JaP3kGzkDMDRMwzKPyyxnP
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (893 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-06T02:50:06.046Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ace45423-b876-4cfd-8e14-4f9b15a6db32","new_score":62,"page_slug":"kraken","prev_score":62,"reason":"This is a well-researched and comprehensive investigation with strong sourcing from primary regulatory filings. The vast majority of claims are confirmed by authoritative sources. The four partially-supported claims involve minor date imprecisions (co-CEO announcement date off by 29 days, timeline entries using approximate dates) and one unverifiable community-sourced phishing loss claim. No disputed claims were found. The investigation presents a balanced view of a legitimate operating exchange with a substantial regulatory enforcement history.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}