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
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443517544
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T22:20:14.344Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8AVF3jaW5GRSyrJnqxLMqNhQVNimdAYCVGJYzBo1jGvc
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1306 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T22:20:14.252Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"db1556c5-fb8c-485d-b8e5-f4eec92f89a7","new_score":2,"page_slug":"travis-ford-wolf-capital-crypto-ponzi","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's substantive allegations -- the fraud scheme's mechanics, dollar amounts, investor counts, criminal charges, guilty plea, sentence length, financial penalties, and the CFTC's parallel civil action -- are all well-supported by primary DOJ and CFTC sources that this reviewer independently fetched and read in full. However, the page's repeated sentencing date of 'November 14, 2025' is contradicted by both the DOJ's own case docket and the CFTC's press release, which independently place the sentencing on November 13, 2025 (the DOJ press release itself, dated Nov. 14, says Ford was sentenced 'yesterday'). A second date error appears in the timeline, where the CFTC's alleged fraud end date is given as December 24, 2024 rather than the complaint's actual December 10, 2024. The '3,000+ participants' figure used throughout also overstates the precision of the CFTC complaint's actual '3,376 unique digital wallets' figure.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}