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
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443515571
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T17:24:35.721Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- oSqc3Vaawymr7JQjpN6h1tJbnxWEg6riPCrukuNFkfA
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1322 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T17:24:35.568Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"f28d76b9-cdf1-4557-be03-b49d1155a986","new_score":0,"page_slug":"2026-violent-crypto-wrench-attack-wave-h1-chainalysis-report","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's headline statistics from both the Chainalysis and CertiK reports (incident counts, dollar totals, year-over-year percentage changes, France's share of incidents) check out precisely against the primary sources. However, the review found a fabricated quote attributed to Chainalysis that does not appear in the report and inverts the report's actual point, and two specific incident details (the Le Chesnay and Ploudalmezeau cases) cited to a Decrypt article that does not contain them, even though the underlying events are independently verifiable elsewhere. Several secondary figures (kidnapping/torture/homicide breakdowns, monthly France attack rate, the 200-arrests/75-pretrial-detention figures, and one suspect count) could not be independently confirmed or showed minor mismatches with independent reporting. The page does not appear to identify any victim beyond what its own cited sources already published.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}