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_revise · Aeza Group
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443521694
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T16:20:22.325Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2VQNGmHp4vdr7S3f8gjmdS1jC6j6fBUT5oXN9qnYT3xu
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1794 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-26T16:20:21.814Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"2cb7c225-a47f-4b55-92aa-fc696b074596","new_score":0,"page_slug":"aeza-group","prev_score":2,"reason":"Independent fact-checking confirmed the substance of this page: 39 of 48 claims were verified directly against primary regulatory records (the Federal Register SDN notice, Treasury press releases) and independent research, including the core allegations that Aeza hosted ransomware, infostealer, and darknet-marketplace infrastructure, the founders' 2025 arrests, and the sanctioned cryptocurrency wallet's activity. The review found one numeric error that recurs in two places (claim_findings[8], [44]): the page states OFAC designated 'Aeza Group LLC and four affiliated entities' in July 2025, when the underlying notice and the page's own following sentence show three affiliates, not four — this is treated as one substantive inaccuracy rather than two, since both instances trace to the same miscount. The page's account of the November 2025 sanctions round (claim_findings[3], [15]) also omits that the same joint U.S./UK/Australia action separately designated an unrelated hosting network, Media Land, alongside its own individuals — a framing gap rather than a false statement. A handful of narrower details (a domain count, statute citations, one analytical aside, and one attribution to VSquare.org the reviewer could not locate in that source) remain unverifiable rather than contradicted, and two coverage gaps flag that the page could note the EU has not sanctioned Aeza and that Aeza's brand reportedly remained active into 2026.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}