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 · yg
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443509425
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-19T16:40:03.632Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5UZVRX4t9Z1QgYoeC2bQBT7m5hHcHk2EYCnnrK4i3opT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1213 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-19T16:40:03.451Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"6c537a8c-5995-4281-baf5-493283953a44","new_score":42,"page_slug":"yg","prev_score":42,"reason":"The page's core facts — YGG's 2020 founding, the a16z-led 2021 raise, the token's launch/ATH/collapse trajectory, and the Axie-driven scholarship-model strain — are corroborated by independent sources and no evidence of own-fraud, hacks, or regulatory action against YGG was found; the impersonation scams described are correctly attributed to third parties, not YGG. However, the page contains two verifiable date errors that contradict its own cited sources (the $13.8M raise is misdated by ~6 months; the public-sale token unlock is misdated by 2 years), and its 'Current Strategy and Pivot' section presents YGG Play, the Launchpad, and LOL Land as an active ongoing strategy without disclosing that this entire division was shut down with 35 layoffs on July 31, 2026 — a material, recent, and currently omitted development that runs counter to the page's rosier framing.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}