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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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_revise · Arbitrum
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
62 → 52 (-10)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
424357485
Off-chain at
2026-06-05T01:04:51.156Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
5sqMMdx1iKdUgzAqK3q61nF7RaqDzCvoqFdxDrYgqKgC
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1592 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-05T01:04:50.958Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"a59521f5-a756-44e4-ad30-984db58ac09b","new_score":52,"page_slug":"arbitrum","prev_score":62,"reason":"The reviewer found 3 disputed claims out of 28 total, yielding a disputed rate of 10.7%, placing this page in the minor-issues band. The most consequential error is the Gaming Catalyst Program approval date, which appears in both the section narrative (claim_findings[17]) and the timeline (claim_findings[25]): the page states mid-2023 / June 1, 2023, while multiple Tier 1 sources confirm the DAO approved the GCP on June 7, 2024 — a one-year factual error on a named governance controversy. A second disputed claim (claim_findings[2]) asserts Harry Kalodner worked at Microsoft Research prior to co-founding Offchain Labs; no credible source corroborates this, and multiple sources place him at Princeton through his PhD. Four additional claims are partially supported, involving minor precision differences (Series B round size, textbook co-authorship framing, AIP-1.05 rejection percentage, TVL market share floor) that do not reverse the directional substance. The KelpDAO legal section and all core protocol and governance claims are well-sourced and confirmed. No link rot or stale citations were found. The page should be revised to correct the GCP approval year and remove or qualify the Microsoft Research claim before re-approval.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}