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 · Treasure DAO
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 34 → 34 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 445506932
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-09T03:05:18.207Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7hpyeYXKoGgYG9YNQ8ptsfdyArbCMQULfEtrmcpJDLwg
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (705 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"97c593da5d1d9a5db71f4340e1bc3845","decided_at":"2026-09-07T10:58:57.265006+00:00","decision":"review","findings_count":27,"findings_rows_hash":"43a3be2a232f594f7615fcd4eb24d7cbfea7c03896bf3c900918b94d18620ef0","investigation_id":"3237b462-d3c5-42b9-9b44-d2611221db93","mode":"findings_only_retroactive","new_score":34,"page_content_hash":"1c20f98be6f843d91670e95871dc974cf5eb8fa8cb0ee8b7d4a7d9dd114463aa","page_slug":"treasure-dao","prev_score":34,"reason":"Findings-only fact-check (retroactive anchor of stored findings)","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}