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
accept · Bybit
- Sequence
- #8
- Score
- 82 → 82 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457920383
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T05:28:08.591Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T05:28:31.043Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8Lc7WbdToC86AZgVXuPXZZ9eQhuTRyShtLnniYsU1KC9
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (788 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T05:28:08.342Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"cc5d2629-b918-4554-b41b-cf765ff31285","new_score":82,"page_slug":"bybit","prev_score":82,"reason":"CoinDesk confirms Bybit sued DPRK, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, and Lazarus Group in U.S. District Court for D.C. over the $1.5B 2025 hack and won a preliminary injunction freezing identified stolen assets, matching the note exactly. Neutral label fits: this is litigation context, not proof of Bybit's own conduct either way.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":8,"submission_content_hash":"cc5b378d418973fb5f20f354883f758345fe83588076711ba8bdd76e0ef75805","submission_id":"59eccd95-e623-46ec-b4ec-257202796069","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"neutral","v":1}