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 · Broox Bauer
- Sequence
- #7
- Score
- 26 → 26 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 462374199
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-28T06:25:40.044Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-28T06:25:52.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-28T06:25:52.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BXkNdjhtab7kRMtd65urYsdM4h485aiuUWAY9Bk8hp1x
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2012 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"280e4f7e6abfe2ec62c4a8dd5210c6cd","decided_at":"2026-10-28T06:25:39.905Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0,"findings_hash":"GcSobVJ5nXnZGCiccZJ94DULtyAt64DquwLaNcWin3DD","investigation_id":"b501a392-df51-40a0-8f74-d8c3e590bd81","mode":"findings_only","new_score":26,"omissions":{"material":0,"total":2},"page_content_hash":"7d7fe65a6b314e7fa160b16186adbabb4d878f8b422cfc5531455ac0b3421610","page_slug":"brooks-bauer","prev_score":26,"reason":"This page is unusually well-sourced and carefully hedged for a story that is only allegations against a named individual. Every section-level claim I checked against its cited sources was independently confirmed by directly fetching or searching for the underlying Decrypt, DL News, The Block, Cointelegraph, Forklog, Yellow.com, Coin360, and Yahoo Finance/Moby articles, including exact verbatim quotes attributed to Bauer and to Axiom. The one weakness found is a single sentence in the Polymarket trading section that collapses two distinct winning wallets/accounts into language implying one trader with a range of outcomes, which should be clarified. The page is appropriately cautious about unconfirmed details (the 'Mystery' third party, the predictorxyz identity, SDNY jurisdiction) and correctly disambiguates the unrelated 'Axiom Holdings, Inc.' penny stock. No regulatory or prosecutorial action against Bauer has been found anywhere, consistent with the page's own statement, and Axiom the platform continues to operate without any reported shutdown or sanction. Omissions found are minor (a financial-motive screenshot detail, and an explicit note on the lack of 8-month follow-up) rather than material or critical.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":7,"subject_status":"unknown","subject_status_contradicts_page":false,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}