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
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 0 → 0 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443515544
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T17:19:57.089Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- WgdqTMtVYz1VhbqsjcSJU7vHHjC56VVg1uHYGg8MaNV
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1627 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T17:19:56.845Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"3e6b67e8-7352-44d7-981a-607117c1c555","new_score":0,"page_slug":"hong-kong-insurance-agent-romance-scam-fake-crypto-app-3-3m-july-2026","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's central account — the HK$26 million (US$3.3 million) loss, the fabricated 800% returns, the 25-case/HK$70 million weekly total, the HK$22 million wire / HK$4 million cash split, and the regulatory and enforcement context (VAIT taskforce, 2025 fraud statistics, Operation Atlantic) — was independently confirmed against the sources cited for it, and the HKD-to-USD currency conversion was verified correct throughout (claim_findings[0-7]). Two errors were found, both confined to a secondary 'Broader Weekly Context' passage rather than the page's core subject: a Fun Coffee scam loss figure of HK$1 billion that isn't supported by the article actually cited for it, which reports HK$104 million (claim_findings[8]), and a reference to a Flare Network staking fraud that is in fact a Seoul, South Korea case and is incorrectly framed as part of Hong Kong's crypto-fraud environment (claim_findings[9]). The review also checked whether the page disclosed identifying detail about the defrauded individual beyond what was already public and found that it did not (claim_findings[10]). These two contextual errors warrant correction, but they do not undermine the page's core reporting, which is solidly sourced.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}