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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 · OKX
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 35 → 35 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514966
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:23.555Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7JeJo3NSie8mJBpk9ZVUHLUiE1Ca1zEzSbwG1Pd7R4fY
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1853 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:23.503Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"37ff6a21-bdb8-47a7-908e-f9841fe89699","new_score":35,"page_slug":"okx","prev_score":35,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: correct. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. OKX is a legitimate, continuing major exchange — not a fraud, Ponzi, or exit scam — but has a documented record of intentional AML non-compliance rising to the level of a federal criminal guilty plea. The DOJ guilty plea (Feb 2025) by Aux Cayes Fintech Co. Ltd in SDNY, covering seven years of unlicensed money transmitting and staff-directed customer ID falsification, is the defining incident and clearly supports the WARNING band. The $504M penalty is the largest crypto AML settlement in SDNY history. However, OKX has since obtained MiCA full-licensure, hired a 3-year external compliance monitor, relaunched in the U.S. with new leadership, and attracted a $200M strategic investment from ICE (NYSE parent) at a $25B valuation as of March 2026 — all verifiable indicators of ongoing remediation. The current score of 42 is within the correct WARNING band (20-49). A marginal upward adjustment to 44 reflects the measurable remediation steps while keeping the page firmly in WARNING given the unresolved severity of the criminal conviction, the ongoing compliance monitor through February 2027, and the EU investigation still open over the Lazarus Group/Bybit incident. No score modifier is warranted for the Lazarus Group incident as a pure association penalty, but partial own-negligence applies given OKX's platform controls allowed $100M in stolen funds to pass through.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}