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
- #4
- Score
- 62 → 62 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 445504907
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-09T03:04:57.648Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HU35w6a38R7LAjE19ZN6EtxNRv3wfwCxSZJCma1CXf9B
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (730 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"2e36286fc6f6b409af2833705f871958","decided_at":"2026-09-06T17:40:39.733341+00:00","decision":"review","findings_count":49,"findings_rows_hash":"02f15a83e2a7a85cad9d171b940c0bd2dddf21013e57f581f38d4889dc30de6e","investigation_id":"1d7658b7-0313-4731-ba92-f248c161629d","mode":"findings_only_retroactive","new_score":62,"page_content_hash":"0a5b0b5a61acb82246f252fe24111300d2e74a8b6b832677dcd2a11964609052","page_slug":"zcash-orchard-pool-counterfeiting-bug","prev_score":62,"reason":"Findings-only fact-check (retroactive anchor of stored findings)","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}