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
- 45 → 45 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443525505
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T10:52:34.218Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3eZG4SH7gUNG5LKgTTfxfNiqSLhfutghZ6mkJSobybNG
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1284 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T10:52:33.653Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b49b74f3-c3d5-4876-8cfd-a60919377829","new_score":45,"page_slug":"0x62d5a59e0d67c0381aad53b201b4a1b8dcd2c833","prev_score":45,"reason":"This page's on-chain factual claims (EOA status, zero balance, exactly two zero-value inbound transfers from a single sender, exact block numbers, no ENS, no further activity) were independently corroborated via Blockscout and Ethplorer and matched the page precisely, including a live re-check over two months after the page's investigation date that showed no change. Unlike another page flagged in this review corpus, this page does not attribute the address to any named individual, entity, or incident -- its central assertion is an absence of attribution, which held up under a direct SEC EDGAR full-text search (zero hits) and general web searches, though the ChainAbuse and Etherscan-comments sub-claims could not be independently checked due to blocked or unrendered fetches. The trust score of 45 is not accompanied by any visible scoring rationale relative to this near-blank evidentiary record.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}