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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523387
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T03:48:41.392Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CBiBpqCPB5qQSgJiVgVeEpxpDA9sYh3jZcR3iiTMRebC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1491 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T03:48:41.285Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"1620215f-f081-449c-b8c1-deed771b06ff","new_score":2,"page_slug":"mica-transition-impersonation-scam-wave-2026","prev_score":2,"reason":"Unlike the sibling 'wave' page pattern flagged for scrutiny, this page's core framing -- a surge in MiCA-transition-linked impersonation scams -- is genuinely corroborated by on-the-record statements from three separate regulators (ESMA, AMF, AFM) to the Financial Times on August 6, 2026, not manufactured from a single vendor blog post, and the page transparently self-caveats its two largest scale figures ($17B and 10M) as non-MiCA-specific estimates. However, review found three specific, sourced-looking claims that do not hold up: an unsupported assertion that Coinbase, Kraken and OKX were 'reportedly impersonated' (no cited or found source says this), a Binance 'displaced user base of 450 million' figure that contradicts Binance's own contemporaneous 323-million-user disclosure, and an August 17 timeline entry that misattributes a 338-CASP/74%-increase figure to a CryptoTimes article that actually reports 323/~66.5%. Belgium's FSMA is also placed under an 'Entities Impersonated' heading despite its cited action being an unrelated unlicensed-firm warning, not a report of FSMA being impersonated.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}