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 · Binance (Law Enforcement Cooperation Rollback)
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 28 → 20 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505615
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T02:42:26.422Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- AKTqjJDACaP3YDMj3tCDsyhfpfEys8SDnQHF8TAbxvss
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1481 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T02:42:26.275Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"4f608165-6530-4642-bd70-c4b37d40f980","new_score":20,"page_slug":"binance-law-enforcement-rollback-2026","prev_score":28,"reason":"The page is substantially well-sourced — 17 of 25 claims are fully confirmed by independent outlets including Tier 1 sources (Fortune, Bloomberg, DOJ press releases, CNBC, The Information). However, one concrete factual error warrants correction: claim_findings[13] finds that the page misattributes a May 14, 2026 letter to Senator Blumenthal when the cited source is actually a House Representatives letter from Casten and Meeks; Blumenthal's own DOJ/Treasury letters were dated April 17, 2026. Additionally, four high-priority coverage gaps — the active Binance v. WSJ defamation lawsuit, the DOJ monitorship end negotiations, the absence of on-chain verification for the $1.7 billion Iran-linked flow allegation, and the lack of any formal regulatory response update — represent material omissions that should be addressed before the page can be considered fully current. Minor precision issues across claim_findings[7], [11], and [15] (slightly overstated trading volume, investigator count discrepancy, and an unverifiable verbatim quote) are secondary but contribute to the revise recommendation.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}