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_revise · Stable
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 55 → 37 (-18)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425403558
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T20:50:34.229Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9jwSog9qEQKJdhxSmG3eRLm26quB5BSdFazzJfosxmu9
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1369 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-09T20:50:33.664Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"e48dca6e-4808-4c61-a1a2-5d711002f4f4","new_score":37,"page_slug":"stables","prev_score":55,"reason":"The page's core technical claims about Stable's Layer-1 architecture, USDT-as-gas model, and STABLE token utilities are all confirmed by Tier-1 and Tier-2 sources. However, claim_findings[7] and claim_findings[9] are disputed: the page incorrectly states 'no major Tier 1 news outlets have published investigative pieces' when The Block, CoinDesk, and Messari have all published substantive coverage, and the low-confidence framing reflects the page's own narrow source selection rather than genuine information scarcity. The $914M market cap figure (claim_findings[3]) is stale at approximately $828M at review time. More significantly, the page omits three high-priority material areas: the named leadership team and $28M institutional seed round, the Tether/Bitfinex governance concentration risk that is central to any risk assessment of this protocol, and the absence of a confirmed public security audit. These gaps, combined with the disputed editorial framing, require a full revision rather than a minor update.","score_delta":-18,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}