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 · FX Winning / David Merino Quintana
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 1 → 0 (-13)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443516548
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T19:21:28.976Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- EHTQqnyD3VWzWx4zwi1bL7xQksZXzqzRV5jU9TF17SbX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1736 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T19:21:28.794Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"7110be02-af51-4049-bf0b-002f8a8452d8","new_score":0,"page_slug":"fx-winning-david-merino-quintana","prev_score":1,"reason":"About 18% of this page's 34 checked claims came back disputed or unverifiable, which falls in the lower band for review findings, but the single disputed claim is not a minor one. The page states Merino's Dubai arrest was carried out 'pursuant to an Interpol Red Notice' (claim_findings[24]); no source reviewed mentions a Red Notice, and later reporting indicates his continued detention actually stems from an unrelated legal matter, which undercuts the page's implication that a clean extradition path to Spain is already underway (claim_findings[5]). Separately, the page names Patrick Schilling Fuentes as a co-defendant based on only a low-quality, uncorroborated source (claim_findings[32]), and it includes David Merino's own denial video while omitting associate Jose Lucas Cruz's on-record denial of wrongdoing, an inconsistency in how the page handles denials from accused individuals. The page's central factual architecture -- the alleged Ponzi scheme, the €460 million in Europol-documented losses, the June 2025 arrests, prior CNMV and FSMA regulatory warnings, and the basic facts of the June 2026 Dubai arrest -- is well corroborated by tier-1 and tier-2 sources, so the page does not warrant a status change or delisting, but the unsupported legal-status claim and uneven treatment of denials call for a correction and a moderate score reduction.","score_delta":-13,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}