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
review · Syndicate Labs (SYND)
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 28 → 28 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423087678
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-30T04:54:54.586Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Bg1jttgeiSvTSh6Vd3SDr8m6qzdojmx632tVh1P6f9yq
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1045 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-30T04:54:54.357Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"cd1a9816-eeb7-4d10-bec4-3d3d0c61b550","new_score":28,"page_slug":"syndicate-labs-synd","prev_score":28,"reason":"The Syndicate Labs (SYND) investigation page is substantially accurate. Core facts — founding, a16z funding, the bridge exploit mechanics, wind-down date, rollup market statistics, DUNA legal structure, and user compensation — are consistently supported by credible independent sources. The main weaknesses are a significant ATH price discrepancy between CoinGecko ($2.61) and CoinMarketCap ($0.5021), an ATL figure that has already been superseded by new lows, an unverified claim about Kleiner Perkins' participation in the Series A, and the absence of on-chain transaction evidence for the exploit and compensation. No claims were found to be directly disputed by a more credible source.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}