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 · Malone Lam Crypto Syndicate
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514480
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:31:12.993Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BYadtfA6RRkQ4X5L9i2g6sgd7P96kWQ3bnmAohoeJHAU
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1246 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:31:12.418Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"77f1bc76-abe9-4d92-8447-2baa6f8c9f17","new_score":0,"page_slug":"malone-lam-crypto-syndicate","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- the DOJ RICO prosecution of the Social Engineering Enterprise, the $230 million Genesis-creditor Bitcoin theft, ZachXBT's role in identifying suspects, and the confirmed sentences for Evan Tangeman and Marlon Ferro -- is well supported by DOJ/IRS-CI press materials and independent reporting. However, the page conflates the May 2025 superseding indictment with the December 2025 Second Superseding Indictment, incorrectly listing Dellecave, Ibrahim, and Zulfiqar as May 2025 defendants and describing two now-arrested defendants as still at large; it also misstates RICO's 20-year figure as a sentencing minimum rather than a per-count maximum, and its claim that all nine guilty-pleading co-defendants were sentenced to 70-78 months overstates the record given that most remain unsentenced and co-defendant Veer Chetal faces a far higher guideline range.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}