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 · Houdini Swap
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 52 → 42 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419390485
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-13T03:37:10.499Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7eUsGGutxspe9YvVphZNtHSAe86qRVLB8cVoLzYf7vHr
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1604 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-13T03:37:10.312Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"1f6c112b-913c-4764-8a79-0e28ce2dc173","new_score":42,"page_slug":"houdini-swap","prev_score":52,"reason":"The page is broadly accurate on its core claims — the acquisition structure, Louis Goldberg's role, LOCK token contract details, and regulatory inaction are all confirmed by multiple sources. However, two claims are factually disputed: claim_findings[17] states no investor funding rounds are documented, which is directly contradicted by a publicly announced $250,000 seed round from Theia Blockchain in May 2023 (confirmed by GlobeNewswire and Crunchbase); and claim_findings[24] states LOCK carries no revenue-sharing or buyback mechanism, which is factually incorrect — Houdini's own staking documentation describes a fee-funded buy-bot. A high-priority coverage gap (coverage_gaps[0]) flags that the page describes acquirer SOL Strategies' Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Ehrlich only as having 'prior history in the crypto industry,' omitting his settled CFTC fraud charges ($750K, 3-year registration ban) and FTC enforcement action ($2.8M) from the Voyager Digital collapse — a material omission for a risk-focused investigation. The disputed_pct of 9.7% is at the boundary of the approve band, but the combination of two substantive factual errors and a high-priority material omission warrants revision before the page is treated as settled.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}