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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 · Bitcoin Xchange (Syria-based, ISIS-Linked)
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#4
Score
0 → 0 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457586994
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T09:26:31.544Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T09:26:58.308Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
7AXqN5rc1mWnAQ9DNLg4qA6eLPo1VfJKh1pEBWh73xPX
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2076 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"2c511050f62fc175d3fb629913589b67","decided_at":"2026-10-16T09:26:31.308Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2381,"findings_hash":"Dpyezyr6LLVSEdpwQc7kBCQE6ddtz3uDDWp3BANiAy4u","investigation_id":"3e49786b-944c-4251-9a0d-7dac931261b9","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"2264f53d425a165a13cbfe4522c66c4aeeb3248a7440b32dce56b6b0e5e636b6","page_slug":"bitcoin-xchange-syria-based-isis-linked","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's central claims are well-supported: the June 22, 2026 OFAC designation of Bitcoin Xchange and Abdelhakim Boukich under E.O. 13224, the entity's formal name and Syrian locations, the broader six-entity/three-individual network spanning France, Syria, Turkey and Nigeria, and TRM Labs' approximately USD 10 million transaction-volume estimate all check out against the Treasury press release, the OFAC designation record, TRM Labs' own blog post, and independent news coverage (The Defiant, Chainalysis, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews.net, FINCHANNEL). One claim overstates TRM's role, framing a self-congratulatory retrospective blog post as if TRM formally fed intelligence into the designation. A more substantive problem is a stale characterization of Idlib Governorate as being 'outside Syrian government control' as of 2026; this was true before December 2024 but increasingly inaccurate after the Assad government's fall, when the very factions that controlled Idlib became Syria's transitional government. Several granular claims sourced to a single MEMRI report (the April 2026 'to avoid surveillance' quote, the February 2026 $7,400 figure, and the October 2025 'centralized fund' claim) could not be independently verified because the MEMRI page blocked direct access and no secondary source repeated these specific figures; these are flagged unverifiable rather than disputed. No accepted community submissions were present to review.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}