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 · Bit.com
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 52 → 52 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425414164
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T22:00:32.728Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- G9x7YoisXs9Z6mVxgJ44n45v54h16512wnM4NWsByXws
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1061 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T22:00:32.462Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"cc3fbcec-6e6a-4760-96d9-3cb179d61864","new_score":52,"page_slug":"bit-com","prev_score":52,"reason":"The core narrative — that Bit.com was a legitimate Matrixport-operated exchange that conducted an orderly wind-down in late 2025/early 2026, with Matrixport subsequently rebranding as BIT — is well-supported by multiple independent sources. The primary weakness is a material inaccuracy in the disambiguation section where 'bitex.com' is attributed to a BCSC warning that actually pertains to 'bestbitex.com,' a different entity. Additionally, the widely-cited 51% year-over-year volume decline figure could not be traced to the cited sources, and the official BIT help-center URL is inaccessible. Several claims are unverifiable rather than disputed, reflecting citation-level gaps rather than contradictory evidence.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}