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
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457883567
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T03:15:26.827Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T03:15:48.854Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 33XRmvNyTv8V38K4aDkGoTVX6EZZ81Vk1FesowXgEAPL
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2043 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"2519ae9400663ff3cd5d93cb0676f89f","decided_at":"2026-10-17T03:15:26.649Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.1875,"findings_hash":"Fa2PSXJ2aNMXo1jE9FsfhkB6rqJktNQFiYNJCNHBeP7g","investigation_id":"4c7d3d05-b4ba-477c-b6b4-30b3a094b5da","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"8155db1c809fb056dd448c620ddec114f9ec016b9daa49d4b75baf7c70aa7350","page_slug":"sinaloa-cartel-ofac-ethereum-address-designations","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page is well-sourced to primary regulatory material (Treasury press release, OFAC SDN listing, Federal Register, DOJ) and to reputable blockchain-analytics research (TRM Labs, Scorechain, Chainalysis), and the large majority of checked claims — the May 20, 2026 action's scope, the 11 designated individuals and 2 entities, the September 2023 first-address designation and its $740,000 Binance figure, the FTO/SDGT dates, the executive-order basis, the 'eighth designation' framing, and the money-laundering typology figures — were independently confirmed against primary sources. However, a verified, recurring defect runs through three places on the page (summary-adjacent section 0, the detailed address section 1, and the May 2026 timeline entry): the attribution of the sixth Ethereum address and the fifth address swap between Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles and Liliana Orozco Romero contradicts OFAC's own SDN entry text, which instead attributes that address to Rodrigo Alarcon Palomares (and gives Liliana Orozco Romero no address at all). This error appears to originate in a TRM Labs blog post that the page (and at least one other news aggregator) relied on instead of the primary SDN data it also cites. One further sentence misattributes a Chinese-money-laundering-organization fee statistic to Scorechain when it is TRM Labs' finding. No accepted community submissions existed to cross-check.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}