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
- 12 → 12 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425397436
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T20:10:07.059Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6oqEPNAKHQrzeX58NqJRYtF8jR1SzVbN2RtAtZtHwXUR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1216 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T20:10:06.915Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"5dde6d54-ddb2-4220-9e80-934d4b9c9016","new_score":12,"page_slug":"venus-protocol-the-token-flash-loan-exploit-march-2026","prev_score":12,"reason":"The investigation is well-sourced and largely accurate. The five partially-supported findings involve minor quantitative discrepancies: the LUNA-related bad debt is more commonly reported as ~$11M rather than $14M; the number of frozen markets was eight rather than six in the final post-mortem; the $27M phishing figure was corrected to $13.5M net; the CAKE extraction breakdown differs slightly across sources; and the precise attribution of HTX as XVS destination relies on secondary sources rather than the CoinDesk article cited. No claims are flatly contradicted by credible sources. The TheBlock.co primary source returned a 403 during review, reducing direct verification of that outlet's specific reporting. Core technical and financial figures are confirmed by official post-mortem and independent security research.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}