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 · Taj Tarsha / Few and Far Limited
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443518443
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T23:08:26.666Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GcqDCvPzrQHdu4qBA4ezKZ8pPAUfSYYcbieNupDsRzFx
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1350 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T23:08:26.520Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"6c69efb6-4853-4cbe-a95d-2e4e49b18bd5","new_score":2,"page_slug":"taj-tarsha-few-and-far-limited","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual architecture — the SDNY indictment of Taj Tarsha, the $10M/67-investor SAFT fraud allegations, the specific dollar figures and personal-use categories, the direct quotations attributed to Tarsha and his fiancee, and the defense's 'business failure is not a crime' statement — is well corroborated by the DOJ press release and at least six independent news outlets. The main weaknesses found are an overstatement of how quickly the FAR token collapsed in value (reporting describes a roughly year-long decline rather than an immediate crash), a few granular post-audit details that could not be independently verified outside the DOJ release itself, and an inability to directly confirm current CoinMarketCap pricing data due to a fetch error. No claims were found to be disputed by contradicting credible sources, and personal liability (Tarsha, individually) versus corporate conduct (Few and Far Limited) is consistently and correctly distinguished throughout.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}