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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 · Polkadot
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#9
Score
79 → 79 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457454719
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T01:30:36.295Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T01:31:07.153Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
ByGyatcFSt4qbWE7668NhbiMbhT1PgyJY4kLz1JJZr1X
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1843 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"ca6aa9eabc5d5fd518666207fb29e182","decided_at":"2026-10-16T01:30:36.103Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.1579,"findings_hash":"5z2GjPD4zc1FHmJyw5r7Xys7CFGVNjkbd7jCJw1yEErX","investigation_id":"ab48864f-0340-45d5-ad56-54f4f7e19f52","mode":"findings_only","new_score":79,"page_content_hash":"dac4893189430d4019c05568df47423fbdedd7a026fc0459e1446aadb1c1cae0","page_slug":"polkadot","prev_score":79,"reason":"The page is substantially well-sourced for its major incidents (Hyperbridge exploit, 2017 Parity freeze, 2024 treasury crisis, 2023 layoffs, SEC/ETF status) and most figures check out against independent reporting, albeit often via sources other than the ones the page itself cites. The clearest defect is the Leadership Instability section's claim that Gavin Wood 'cycled out and back as Parity CEO twice' — documented history shows only one departure (2022) and one return (2025), and the page's timeline omits the 2025 return entirely, leaving the leadership narrative stale. The ecosystem-decline statistics mix confirmed figures (Q1 2025 transaction and active-address drops, corroborated via secondary coverage of a paywalled Messari report) with two unverifiable ones (DAU ~5,000; TVL share) and one unverifiable/possibly inflated one (parachains '200+' to '~30', which could not be reconciled with Polkadot's own historical blog figures of ~79 parachains ever onboarded). The JAM section's '43 competing implementations' figure is stale, having fallen to about 15 teams reaching Milestone 1 by January 2026 per Polkadot's own forum. The 'Polkadot Fund' scam claim is appropriately hedged given it rests on a single uncorroborated forum post.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":9,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}