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 · Playsomo
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 60 → 60 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443518408
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T23:06:14.759Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6eT4VyLSHzdJeRKJP3qBeGbdaFKnBv6wA23WokQHmEpX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1057 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T23:06:14.644Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"f9353971-d133-410f-8c63-66d8926378d6","new_score":60,"page_slug":"playsomo","prev_score":60,"reason":"The page's core factual claims — the Animoca/SOMO acquisition and the Taj Tarsha/Few and Far indictment — are well-corroborated by independent primary and secondary sources, and the page is unusually careful to separate the confirmed Tarsha indictment (which does not name Playsomo anywhere) from a single unverified social-media allegation connecting the two, which it explicitly labels low-confidence. Two minor factual imprecisions were found (an ambiguous FAR token 'launch' framing and a one-day discrepancy in Tarsha's bond-release date), and one real coverage gap exists around an undisclosed real-money-adjacent 'wager' feature on SOMO's own site that the page does not examine for licensing implications.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}