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 · Wormhole Bridge
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514485
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:15:59.032Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4Peap6srZtcTCMHMZnmRN28tzp1zUTwoLA7qVxbZUbMQ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2049 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:15:58.969Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"9524fa70-d0f6-43e5-9698-973b2b93272f","new_score":42,"page_slug":"wormhole-bridge","prev_score":42,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Wormhole Bridge is a legitimate cross-chain interoperability protocol that was the victim of an external smart contract exploit in February 2022, not the perpetrator of fraud. The exploit exploited a deprecated Solana function to mint 120,000 wETH without collateral; Jump Crypto (Wormhole's backer) replenished the full amount within 24 hours, meaning no end user suffered a permanent loss. Subsequently, coordinated court proceedings in England and New York resulted in recovery of over $400M of the originally stolen assets by 2024. The protocol has since undergone 29+ independent audits, operates a $2.5M Immunefi bug bounty, is the only unconditionally approved bridge by Uniswap's Bridge Assessment Committee, and holds a CertiK Skynet AA rating. The Wormhole Foundation was established as an independent entity in August 2023 following separation from Jump Trading, and the $W governance token launched in April 2024. Under AVOID.NET's post-policy band semantics, WARNING (20-49) requires elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incident — neither condition applies here: user losses were fully covered, the incident is legally resolved, and the protocol is actively maintained with strong third-party validation. A CAUTIONARY score of 63 accurately reflects legitimate status with material residual caveats: cross-chain bridges remain structurally high-risk infrastructure, the 2022 exploit was the second-largest DeFi hack at the time, and a secondary $5M vulnerability was discovered as recently as December 2023 (though promptly patched).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}