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 · Google DeepMind
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 55 → 55 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 449571053
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-23T02:43:42.059Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 767pjuz5GYYpNJ5gWTWN6rg42hKtP8GETgq7nbdSvcgA
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1712 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"d3313c1dc90c326fe6504b09368bda30","decided_at":"2026-09-23T02:43:41.857Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.0909,"findings_hash":"HJAMsyoUJ1BbczfTxgMR6h7dVbJWcFzVcvkNvqomoezo","investigation_id":"b9bbaa78-e6f8-46f3-b03d-9be66d2c8150","new_score":55,"page_content_hash":"49498c549555ff64d6c73b1af32dfc87af6a24361c6b3b5d74ab42fb65171850","page_slug":"google-deepmind","prev_score":55,"reason":"This page is unusually well-sourced and accurate. Every major factual claim checked — the DeepMind/Gemini-exchange disambiguation, the Royal Free NHS data scandal and Prismall litigation history (including precise court citations and dates), the Thele v. Google Gmail/Gemini privacy suit and its July 2026 dismissal on standing grounds, the Gavalas wrongful-death suit and its specific allegations, the September 2026 AI-slowdown antitrust suit, the EU Android and DMA fines, the Gemini security-test breach of three companies and Google's disclosure timeline, and the 'Google Coin' impersonation scam — was independently corroborated by multiple credible, current sources, often matching quoted figures, dates, and case citations exactly. The page also appropriately hedges lower-confidence material (e.g., scam-loss figures, unproven allegations in pending litigation) rather than overstating it. The only unverified item is an uncited aside comparing the Gavalas suit to prior OpenAI wrongful-death litigation, which should either be sourced or removed. No link rot, contradictions, or mischaracterizations were found in this pass.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}