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 · GooseFX
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443508386
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-18T17:40:31.815Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3htzmTqEdzacDiKLtCRb2vvosbyBzELcYmMkn1uzw5d9
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1236 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-18T17:40:31.702Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"88289f01-6a2b-4b8b-a69f-ac86fe4f5b29","new_score":42,"page_slug":"goosefx","prev_score":42,"reason":"The page's material claims — founding history, $4.5M seed round with named investors, Halborn audit existence and authenticity, CertiK score, near-total TVL/market-cap collapse, and the August 2025 voluntary wind-down (including exact quoted text) — were all independently verified against primary or reputable secondary sources and matched precisely. No evidence of theft, hack, rug pull, or regulatory action was found by this reviewer either, consistent with the page's characterization. The page correctly disambiguates GooseFX from a similarly-named but unrelated 'Goose Finance' hack, avoiding a guilt-by-association error. Two claims (specific ATH/current token price figures, and the exhaustive absence of regulatory action) could not be independently confirmed with the tools available and are marked unverifiable rather than disputed — no contradicting evidence was found for either.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}