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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · PaintSwap
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#4
Score
57 → 57 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457906626
Off-chain at
2026-10-17T04:38:42.992Z
Anchored at
2026-10-17T04:39:00.522Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
5VucaphZvmqiWWHNFLsBKi6XvwspVJ4RxiujmZyjw8Y8
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2139 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"df05b4f13e62cdb0772d8f7cb93bff69","decided_at":"2026-10-17T04:38:42.853Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.4118,"findings_hash":"HK5NtiVuK9vKbkPPkXsj2AuWMSTm7Ye9293HTXGYoGH8","investigation_id":"db6e62bd-77b0-4b73-9a74-3a98505925f4","mode":"findings_only","new_score":57,"page_content_hash":"b3b3ec16c792eb5a30cf96da776a2098a76c6f9fa90c7a3ceddac4c1c14404a6","page_slug":"paintswap","prev_score":57,"reason":"The bulk of PaintSwap's development history, tokenomics figures, SourceHat audit findings, and team biography claims are well-supported by their cited sources and corroborated independently (CoinMarketCap, Fantom Foundation blog, SourceHat's own audit report, PaintSwap docs). However, several specific issues were found: (1) the BRUSH all-time-low claim (Feb 6, 2026, $0.0005399) has been superseded by a new, lower all-time low recorded August 18, 2026 on the same cited CoinMarketCap source — appearing in both a section and the timeline; (2) the phishing-domain claim mischaracterizes its own cited source, which never uses the terms 'drainer,' 'scam,' or 'phishing' and gives no April 2026 date; (3) the NFT Launchpad go-live date (July 20, 2024) is not actually supported by its cited Sonic Labs newsletter, which only mentions a future Sonic migration plan with no launchpad-specific date; (4) the single-sourced, self-published domain-hijacking incident (Njalla, Oct 2025) could not be independently corroborated because the only cited source returned an HTTP 403 to automated fetching and no secondary press coverage exists; and (5) the summary's characterization of an actively 'operating' AMM DEX is in tension with CoinMarketCap's listing, which states the PaintSwap DEX was decommissioned and migrated to SpookySwap, even though the NFT marketplace itself remains confirmed-live on Sonic. No evidence of regulatory action, hacks, or rug-pull indicators was found in independent searches, consistent with the page's own conclusions.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}