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
- #8
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457986939
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T09:28:36.830Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T09:28:45.181Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- ERnRVKZoZPV8yYWMQG69ta5CGTKtpxnFk1TCp4wEWxhf
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (681 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T09:28:36.632Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"e620d5be-6208-44a1-89e0-67163f0f5c08","new_score":0,"page_slug":"ascendex-insolvency-and-withdrawal-freeze-july-2026","prev_score":0,"reason":"The Defiant confirms AscendEX ceased operations effective July 1, 2026, and moved withdrawals to manual review starting July 6, per a website notice to retail account holders.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":8,"submission_content_hash":"d3c0fda5f5269a075aec6fce76bb674ec3ca850224e97169bd65567223c753ca","submission_id":"9ffaeb65-9b9a-4d63-8de0-06013457eb27","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}