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_revise · Africrypt
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 0 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419572073
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-13T23:45:41.281Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FcEgwPBhUnfuo1pv1xUHzCCZUrSJGvsvvX1zanP4UYDY
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1377 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-13T23:45:40.981Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"d7426dad-d70b-49a5-b017-96ca5a2b3bc2","new_score":0,"page_slug":"africrypt","prev_score":0,"reason":"The Africrypt page is substantially accurate on core narrative facts: the 2019 founding, April 2021 collapse, investor email, blockchain analysis findings, Swiss arrest, bail conditions, settlement mechanism, and 2026 return to South Africa are all confirmed by credible sources. However, three factual errors require correction: claim_findings[1] reverses the age assignment (Raees was ~20 not 17; Ameer was ~17 not 20 at founding) and conflates founding with collapse timelines; claim_findings[5] incorrectly labels Ameer as 'CEO' when he was COO (Raees was CEO); timeline[5] dates the liquidation order grant to July 1, 2021 when sources indicate April 26, 2021 (July 19 was the contest deadline). Additionally, the claim that Swiss prosecutors withdrew the money laundering case (claim_findings[22]) is unverifiable in the cited sources. Two high-priority coverage gaps (on-chain forensics verification and current legal status updates) suggest expansion, not denial. Reviewer confidence of 0.78 supports a measured penalty.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}