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_approve · Chainlink
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 72 → 67 (-5)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 424136289
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-04T00:35:48.673Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BnuRLnMSZ57vxk7Ntp7mBwgXzvmQfib7K4PKfQbGhTxp
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1292 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-04T00:35:48.095Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"06b2993d-72cf-4c50-9f68-28407556ae8d","new_score":67,"page_slug":"chainlink","prev_score":72,"reason":"The review found zero disputed claims across 33 checks, with a disputed_pct of 6% well within the approve band. The most significant factual error is in claim_findings[26]: Franklin Templeton is incorrectly listed as a participant in the $58 billion corporate actions initiative — a Tier 1 PRNewswire source confirms Franklin Templeton participated in the separate DTCC Smart NAV pilot, not this program. Additional minor imprecisions include an overstated page count for the Zeus Capital report (claim_findings[17], 66 vs. 59 pages per multiple sources), an understated title for Taylor Lindman at the SEC (claim_findings[15]), and an ambiguous Staking v0.2 launch date (claim_findings[28], November 28 was Priority Migration only). These are correctible errors in supporting details, not core allegations; reviewer confidence is 0.82. A score penalty of -5 is applied to flag the Franklin Templeton misattribution for editorial correction.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}