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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 · Ethereum
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#4
Score
64 → 64 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
447440565
Off-chain at
2026-09-16T05:15:41.045Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
FEjgmyb3ZqfsuKQ7TrT641E37bawGLCTK6SbQHmbGUjz
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1920 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"05973d78d047440101ed5fa58e7b04e6","decided_at":"2026-09-16T05:15:40.739Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.25,"findings_hash":"8dgpZc3ahg3SAfSrUqZjQX46DJE5GAfWoouZxu4cSt8q","investigation_id":"bae0144a-6625-45a4-8cb2-399c21d7c11b","mode":"findings_only","new_score":64,"page_content_hash":"99ed02f3ba7034702d85e37997c665e0a0639303d29a86945c7728231c72d1ee","page_slug":"ethereum","prev_score":64,"reason":"The page is largely well-sourced and its headline historical facts (the DAO hack, the Merge, Dencun, Pectra, the Tornado Cash sanctions timeline, the 2024 ETF approvals) check out cleanly against primary and independent secondary sources. However, independent verification surfaced a clear factual error in the Regulatory Status section: the March 2026 SEC/CFTC interpretive release named 18 cryptocurrencies including ether explicitly, not 16 with Ethereum excluded as the page states — this inverts a materially relevant fact about Ethereum's own regulatory status. The Staking Centralization section understates how recent Lido's decline to ~24% actually was (mid-2025, not mid-2024, an error the page's own reference to the 2025 Pectra upgrade makes internally inconsistent) and overstates Lido's legal status as 'incorporated in the United States.' The Ethereum Foundation Governance section is now stale: Hsiao-Wei Wang, described as remaining on the Foundation's board, resigned in June 2026, after this page's claimed 'as of' framing. A citation's archive snapshot for the Stańczak-departure source points to an unrelated XRP article, and the live source itself no longer renders reliably. A handful of ecosystem-fraud statistics (giveaway-scam total, ETF flow specifics) could not be independently confirmed either way.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}