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 · Step Finance
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 12 → 12 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426700996
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-15T19:50:06.363Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2eQfRYpV3FjCEieqNkCSG1g22sRp9qzBCW52xEC4Nb55
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1154 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-15T19:50:06.249Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"6670b7ec-4df8-4b8c-8b6d-d167cc148fd6","new_score":12,"page_slug":"step-finance","prev_score":12,"reason":"The Step Finance page is largely accurate. The core narrative — executive device compromise on January 31, 2026 draining $40M and leading to February 23, 2026 shutdown of Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets — is confirmed across multiple tier-1 sources. The main factual error is the all-time high date (listed as September 12, 2021 when the true ATH was April 2021 near launch). One source URL (Cointelegraph on Bitspark) returned 404. Dollar amounts for the hack vary across credible outlets ($27-40M) due to the difference between SOL spot value at time of theft vs. Step Finance's revised total including non-SOL assets; the page's $40M is defensible as Step Finance's own figure but creates ambiguity. The entity is unambiguously a victim of an external attack with no evidence of own-fraud.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}