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
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443511120
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T03:23:53.790Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FUtCNpC4sWceY5TVcSsQkbQ3yV7mTL8jzLULaAbe2jNH
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1476 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T03:23:53.528Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"04dda7b6-f794-4b66-935c-a543b8ab3006","new_score":2,"page_slug":"indonesia-pig-butchering-syndicate-live-model-operation-2025-2026","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual claims — arrest count and nationalities, victim count, dollar losses, dates, named suspect Febiola Elizabeth's alleged role, seized-evidence inventory, and specific criminal-code articles for the facility-provider charge — are well corroborated by multiple independent tier-1/2 sources despite several primary citations being blocked to automated fetches (403/402), which were successfully corroborated through alternate independent reporting. Two clear errors were found: an incorrect romanization of the Chinese term for the scam ('sholai zhu pan' vs. the correct 'sha zhu pan') and an overstated trafficking-victim figure (the page attributes all 3,703 Foreign Ministry-documented overseas scam cases to 'human trafficking,' when independent reporting indicates only ~40% were so classified). A regional-context statistic about an August 2025 Chainalysis-led USDT freeze conflates the date of public disclosure with the actual (June 2024) asset-freeze date. The page consistently and appropriately distinguishes allegation from conviction throughout.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}