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
rescore · Tether Gold (XAUT)
- Sequence
- #7
- Score
- 31 → 71 (+40)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 455365573
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-10T18:45:45.077Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-10T19:10:04.754Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BwMJxp31uL5rXwrdHdcy4MJvAwe1nwc2UM9V7bsjWCtN
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (704 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:45:44.985Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"54857b48-114c-4c9a-96db-b4cfb07058d9","new_score":71,"page_slug":"tether-gold-xaut","prev_score":31,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 31 → 71. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −18.4, problems around the subject, caused by others −0.6; legitimacy credit long-running +10, regulated +5; fact-check adjustments (−13) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.","score_delta":40,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}