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.
- Sequence
- #10
- Score
- 11 → 0 (-11)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465080210
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T23:15:56.203Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T23:16:48.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T23:16:48.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6yLneR6JuZGZvSSWosySKWZ2SNmvVRBKkq5YCkBozKkv
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (784 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T23:15:55.880Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"f148389b-fbdf-4f1b-9c26-b291f88ef903","new_score":0,"page_slug":"bitget-exchange-september-2026-backend-hack-387-5m","prev_score":11,"reason":"The Hacker News confirms Bitget says suspected North Korean actors stole $351.6M, attacker spoofed transaction data, and TRM Labs found wallet overlaps pointing to TraderTraitor. Figure differs from the page's $387.5M but matches the note; the article also cites about $390M.","score_delta":-11,"sequence_num":10,"submission_content_hash":"0e0ae97f1c28cc6cdf3281d19f8f6bd00b1f41ce46fd340bed621ee538af99c3","submission_id":"a47b1e13-f664-43bb-bc0a-d84d60aa2c9e","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}