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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 3 → 3 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505880
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T04:06:25.955Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 32eA4ohSg7HXQ9ooMd3rjPZ8EHLMKJ1uhEJ1io3Jrh5K
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1348 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-08T04:06:25.870Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"9ec13dfb-edc3-4d97-8d15-90dbcd780c2f","new_score":3,"page_slug":"donald-basile-bitcoin-latinum-btcl","prev_score":3,"reason":"The page's core factual record — the April 2026 SEC enforcement action, the specific misrepresentation categories, the Jonna and Assofi civil litigation, and the misappropriation amounts — is well-sourced and confirmed across multiple independent outlets. The most material error is the characterization of Basile as a 'co-founder' of Fusion-io: he was an early chairman and CEO but not a founder; the company was co-founded by David Flynn and Rick White in 2005. Secondary inaccuracies include: the LTNM price drop timing (preceded the lawsuit rather than following it) and the percentage (~92% not ~95%); Hellmuth's bracelet count is now stale at 17 not 16; and the Violin Memory board departure date is off by two days. The Forbes archive metadata in sources_used is corrupted, pointing to an unrelated 2026 article, though the live Forbes URL is functional. The Assofi case disposition (reported as closed/dismissed without prejudice) is a coverage gap that warrants updating.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}