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
accept · AscendEX (BitMax)
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 26 → 25 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457754002
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T19:28:33.381Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T19:28:41.545Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BfVmoKWdsDJgxWPEMe7E2d68Z3A24EvWFARZH4yeiKJ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (714 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T19:28:33.023Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"a2376978-bfce-4a51-9673-406ac00d7f5d","new_score":25,"page_slug":"ascendex-bitmax","prev_score":26,"reason":"Cryptobriefing confirms AscendEX halted operations around July 1, 2026 after ZachXBT flagged withdrawal delays and critically low hot-wallet balances (ETH, USDT, SOL), with manual review and no guaranteed recovery timeline. Matches the note.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"2b510ac9cecc06a15e800888dc4fb02d4d285acae3794c643add84db678553ee","submission_id":"ee47710f-2e98-451b-a42c-de5c9ec19c9a","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}