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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 18 → 18 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443561450
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-02T00:38:02.208Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5M9Y2fzZfDV2qfZGp8FpRtwAspdYgSbzaiKVTQ8nEDcW
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1142 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"fddd59f89e5ed83d6098076f7cba31cc","decided_at":"2026-09-02T00:38:02.121Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.0556,"investigation_id":"9721a022-41d3-48e8-bfbc-974255f41fba","new_score":18,"page_slug":"tectonic-cronos-august-2026-tonic-price-manipulation-exploit","prev_score":18,"reason":"The page's core factual claims -- exploit mechanism, dollar figures, block numbers, TVL collapse, liquidation counts, bad-debt figure, attacker addresses, and Crypto.com/Tectonic promotional ties -- were independently corroborated against tier-1 (TRM Labs) and multiple tier-2 outlets with high consistency. Two minor issues were found: a citation-attribution gap for the $305,931 weekly-volume figure (accurate but not found in the specific sources cited inline) and an incomplete framing of TRM's own price-manipulation ranking (Tectonic is third all-time, not explicitly noted). One technical claim (100-validator cap) could not be verified within the cited sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}