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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
publish · Arbix Finance
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#1
Score
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Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
421041212
Off-chain at
2026-05-20T18:36:44.118Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
8Q615eQU7oRsvzt8AeH41vgbyfGsSz7ASnByg6BKHkcv
2. Recomputed (your browser)
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3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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Canonical bytes hashed (4361 chars)
{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"3235e615-9900-403c-8b27-1f161dfb0bf9","kind":"publish","page_slug":"arbix-finance","published_at":"2026-05-20T18:36:44.041Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"Arbix Finance","sections":[{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-platform-arbix-flagged-as-a-rugpull-transfers-10-million/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/arbixfinancerugpull.php"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://rekt.news/arbix-rekt"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://rekt.news/arbix-rekt"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-platform-arbix-flagged-as-a-rugpull-transfers-10-million/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-firm-pulls-rug-investors/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/suspected-cryptocurrency-rug-pull-nets-actors-10-million-a-18257"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://bscscan.com/address/0x4714a26e4e2e1334c80575332ec9eb043b61a2c4"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://bscscan.com/address/0xd20ef93050c0943f74f5f8ff0cc97c74139d6437"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://rekt.news/arbix-rekt"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-platform-arbix-flagged-as-a-rugpull-transfers-10-million/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-platform-arbix-flagged-as-a-rugpull-transfers-10-million/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-firm-pulls-rug-investors/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://rekt.news/arbix-rekt"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/arbixfinancerugpull.php"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2022/01/10m-of-funds-goes-missing-in-what-appears-to-be-a-cryptocurrency-rug-pull"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://skynet.certik.com/projects/arbix"}]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"Arbix Finance was a yield farming protocol on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that executed a deliberate rug pull on January 4, 2022, draining approximately $10 million in user funds. The anonymous development team minted 10 million unbacked ARBX tokens, dumped them on PancakeSwap to collapse the price, drained all user vaults, bridged the stolen assets to Ethereum via AnySwap, laundered them through Tornado Cash, and deleted the project website, Twitter, and Telegram accounts. Despite holding a CertiK audit from November 2021, the exploited contract fell entirely outside the audit scope.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-11-19","event":"CertiK conducts smart contract audit of Arbix Finance vault contracts; exploited ARBX token contract is outside audit scope.","source":""},{"date":"2021-12-10","event":"Alleged pre-staging: 4.5 million ARBX tokens minted to address 0x161262d172699cf0a5e09b6cdfa5fee7f32c183d.","source":""},{"date":"2022-01-04","event":"Rug pull executed at approximately 3:00 AM UTC: 10 million ARBX tokens minted across 8 addresses and dumped on PancakeSwap; all user vaults drained of approximately $10 million; assets bridged from BSC to Ethereum via AnySwap; funds routed through Tornado Cash; website, Twitter, and Telegram deleted.","source":""},{"date":"2022-01-04","event":"CertiK issues community alert warning users not to interact with Arbix Finance and confirms rug pull via Skytrace on-chain analysis.","source":""},{"date":"2022-01-05","event":"BleepingComputer, Infosecurity Magazine, BankInfoSecurity, Malwarebytes, and multiple crypto outlets publish coverage of the incident.","source":""}]},"v":1}