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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 · Makina Finance
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 38 → 38 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523571
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T04:01:07.506Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4PWrwbXTUATz7ZzdVaioGtdcdvWBnan9a7SwiMmsN69w
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1368 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T04:01:07.216Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ae5806de-d332-4745-a0b1-3e6eae151833","new_score":38,"page_slug":"makina-finance","prev_score":38,"reason":"The page's core narrative — a real, well-documented $4.13M oracle-manipulation exploit against a genuine Ethereum DeFi protocol on January 20, 2026 — is strongly corroborated by multiple independent security-research firms (Rekt News, CertiK) and matches technical details (addresses, transaction hash, block number, audit history, MEV interception, remediation steps) with high precision. However, the page contains a clear misattribution of a named individual's corporate role (the 'Sath Ganesarajah as Makina chairman' claim actually describes an unrelated company, Bluebird Mining Ventures), an unverified/contradicted protocol launch date, an incorrect claim that no post-mortem had been published when one has existed since February 2026, and an internal inconsistency in one MEV address. This is not a case of anonymous speculation dressed up as fact — it documents a real incident with an identifiable, credible evidentiary trail — but several specific factual claims about people and dates require correction.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}