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_approve · Ripple Labs
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 52 → 47 (-5)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419606672
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-14T03:35:44.636Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CvB9So7qq4yZ3o2rXxoVYM8jjJ9fVh3U8uAo9jhXRo2t
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (939 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-14T03:35:44.469Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"0d0cf043-b55f-48c3-b767-2d9af30f9828","new_score":47,"page_slug":"ripple-labs","prev_score":52,"reason":"The page's core legal narrative is confirmed by primary sources across all material points: SEC enforcement dates, court rulings, penalty amount, and final resolution. Five claims are partially supported due to minor precision issues (e.g., claim_findings[0] misdates the OpenCoin-to-Ripple Labs rename from 2013 to 2015; claim_findings[9] overstates the immediacy of XRP's price drop and timing of exchange delisting). No claims are contradicted by credible sources. Zero disputed_pct warrants approval; modest -5 penalty reflects the editorial refinements needed on secondary details.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}