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 · OKX
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 42 → 35 (-7)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426286078
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T22:05:31.497Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8KLZce49995XBy7T8TYR3pAwaEmf9FgvDrWC1g98Ycsv
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1253 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-13T22:05:31.305Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"37ff6a21-bdb8-47a7-908e-f9841fe89699","new_score":35,"page_slug":"okx","prev_score":42,"reason":"The page is well-sourced on its most material claims — the DOJ guilty plea, $504M penalty breakdown, Malta fines, withdrawal freeze, and DEX incidents are all confirmed by Tier 1 or corroborated Tier 2 sources. However, claim_findings[26] (VARA license, July 2022) materially overstates OKX's regulatory authorization at that date: OKX received only a provisional license in July 2022; the full VASP license was not granted until January 2024. Three claims are unverifiable due to source access limitations (claim_findings[8]: FBI quote; claim_findings[26]: Canada FINTRAC exit). The disputed_pct sits at exactly 10%, driven by precision gaps and one meaningful mischaracterization rather than outright factual errors. Two high-priority coverage gaps — current US state-level money transmitter license verification and independent on-chain analytics — warrant expansion before the page is considered complete.","score_delta":-7,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}