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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

  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
review · Ankr
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
38 → 38 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514522
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:16:00.594Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
AqrHcu4zqecH9PBRDbmZrFGhqrDpFYMH5noBhYc33RRz
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1706 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:00.536Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"7a1254db-5cf5-448b-99b9-e773bf1ae9ee","new_score":38,"page_slug":"ankr","prev_score":38,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Ankr is a legitimate, operating Web3 infrastructure company founded in 2017 that suffered a material insider attack in December 2022 when a former employee executed a supply chain exploit. The company responded by compensating the vast majority of affected users at 100% (17 of 19 protocols), implementing multi-signature security controls, and continuing to grow its enterprise infrastructure business (SOC2 Type 1 achieved 2024, Type 2 in progress). There is no evidence of fraud, exit scam, Ponzi mechanics, or regulatory enforcement. The current score of 38 (WARNING band) is over-penalized: it conflates Ankr being a victim of an insider crime with Ankr being a fraudulent operator, and it partially attributes Helio Protocol's separate architectural vulnerability to Ankr's culpability. The unresolved material caveats — a narrow partial-compensation dispute with a subset of LP users, no public prosecution confirmation, and a single historical insider-attack — appropriately place Ankr in CAUTIONARY (50-69) rather than WARNING. A score of 58 reflects the serious but resolved nature of the incident, the company's substantive compensatory response, and its continued operation as a credible infrastructure provider.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}