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 · y00ts
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 38 → 38 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443526320
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T16:05:38.134Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9Uy59aZmF1AHAL668SdSwmfg8zWGVpmguBmrfYdYRj28
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1141 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T16:05:37.848Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"21555629-b4a7-4d86-852e-6fd2fa5d4799","new_score":38,"page_slug":"y00ts","prev_score":38,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- y00ts' repeated chain migrations, the $3M Polygon grant and its return, and Frank's 2025 resignation and disputed wallet incident -- is well-supported by independent reporting and mostly consistent with the page's own cited sources. However, review found a misattributed quote (a critic's line wrongly attributed to research analyst Steven Zheng) and a materially overstated DeGods peak-price figure ('above $37,000') that is not corroborated by the very NFT trackers (CoinGecko, NFTPriceFloor) the page cites in that section, which instead show an all-time-high closer to $15,750-$23,201. Several timeline dates also show the first-of-month placeholder pattern, with at least one (the $DEGOD token launch date) off by roughly two weeks from independently reported dates.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}