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.
- Sequence
- #8
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465081011
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T23:19:13.001Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T23:19:40.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T23:19:40.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6KwX3923KNFF3pwXDdpEvqFLuSSAmoiRxHUxjJgMP7QB
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (772 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T23:19:12.252Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"e5e9168d-7847-4457-a735-e58b23759dfd","new_score":0,"page_slug":"gotbit-vortex-antier-contrarian-doj-crypto-market-maker-manipulation-ring","prev_score":0,"reason":"Decrypt reports DOJ charged 10 individuals tied to Gotbit, Vortex, Antier and Contrarian; three defendants extradited from Singapore appeared before a judge in Oakland and two others pleaded guilty and were sentenced. Matches the note and page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":8,"submission_content_hash":"7a78249401a82a2731a7559f75957261cb50c4a9a1ecc0be792abab27b01717d","submission_id":"6d8b8027-6eef-4d5e-ba61-a8be2c80c795","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}