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
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443562120
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-02T00:41:00.684Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FKRiwzryVdLnexXYwYPPUDeaKPjdugjr9Zsp12bkLGGR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1364 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"66c959df429981b7b85ef8d47707fd53","decided_at":"2026-09-02T00:41:00.412Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.0526,"investigation_id":"c9f9d42f-0622-41f4-9b01-67194f90dca9","new_score":0,"page_slug":"operation-economic-outcast-iran-digital-asset-sanctions","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's claims are extensively and consistently corroborated by independent primary and secondary sources, including the official Treasury press release, OFAC's own SDN action log, TRM Labs' on-chain analysis (verified verbatim on dollar figures and percentages), and independent news coverage of each constituent enforcement action (Nobitex/Wallex/Bitpin/Ramzinex, Shelbit/Aban Tether, the two Tether freezes, and the DOJ Mabna indictment). No claims were found to be disputed or contradicted by more credible sources. Minor imprecision was found in the 'nearly 60' designation count (raw OFAC data suggests a higher total when all individuals/entities/vessels/amendments for that date are summed) and a small number of granular claims (Mesri's 15 addresses, VARA enforcement history, FinCEN 311/CISADA framing) could not be independently corroborated beyond the page's own single cited source.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}