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
accept · Coinbase
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 62 → 61 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457970420
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T08:27:23.764Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T08:29:00.436Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BCz38cACvPDhBd263rwpdMksgnsE8XQLpGBDrHLW5y51
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (715 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T08:27:23.535Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"34a1d395-ed34-4277-a8ff-7adb35a32f66","new_score":61,"page_slug":"coinbase","prev_score":62,"reason":"Yogonet article confirms Coinbase is named among nine platforms (Polymarket, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Robinhood, ProphetX, Novig, Webull, Gemini, Underdog Predict) receiving Connecticut's cease-and-desist over sports event contracts, matching the note.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"9e25a2348aef927083f202334aaf902306ea6ca4f96dbe2e11b87b42549a1ebe","submission_id":"ba729381-3082-49eb-ba12-8904e4770da0","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}