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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 28 → 29 (+1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457663103
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T14:00:19.911Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T14:00:29.557Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FSthMJtK2HW9sTXpd9joSZRDu2LbJ7PxiJvWnuKePPdX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (761 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T14:00:19.130Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"40f85575-158e-4c12-a6af-109fdecce653","new_score":29,"page_slug":"trust-wallet-chrome-extension-hack-december-2025","prev_score":28,"reason":"theblock.co confirms Trust Wallet launched a formal compensation/claims process for the ~$7M browser-extension hack and is warning users about fake compensation forms and impersonation scams, matching the note and supporting the exonerating/mitigating label.","score_delta":1,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":"c3eacd98db5085a048270749adb350ee00a9bf003a6e739dfcef270d978591a5","submission_id":"43214fb9-e29f-453e-b12f-b36968892322","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"exonerating","v":1}