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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 · Pokemon
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
73 → 73 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457841109
Off-chain at
2026-10-17T00:42:10.395Z
Anchored at
2026-10-17T00:42:40.022Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
JCcC8H6y27WbXz12VKHJSsFcyMQcYJqYjirark9MfdyH
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1894 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"b24b7567c7f2a547e218a13e984d2395","decided_at":"2026-10-17T00:42:10.260Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.0625,"findings_hash":"B6JnPo7P7mmYBUxz2ddSFyF3oerbkn82xR7fqXUFtzEX","investigation_id":"ae175d81-1ef5-4db8-a3ab-49868a08fd36","mode":"findings_only","new_score":73,"page_content_hash":"8da4a7e8abbc2cbbf31a8433cd42ce01a639420aa7af78a7b8adb11f53521ad9","page_slug":"pokemon","prev_score":73,"reason":"The page is well-sourced and most claims hold up against independent verification, including the Federal Court of Australia injunction against Kotiota Studios/Pokemon Pty Ltd (confirmed against the primary judgment [2022] FCA 1561), the Curcio/Bondarchuk trading-card fraud case, the CBR prototype-card-fraud reporting, and the Singapore Police job-scam advisory. The main defect is a now-stale statistic: the '477 cases / $958,000' Singapore trading-card-scam tally (appearing in both a section and the timeline) was accurate as of a December 2025 police advisory but has been superseded by a 6 February 2026 police release putting the same window at 609 cases and $1.1 million. The summary also misstates Pokemon's corporate ownership, naming 'The Pokemon Company International' (a regional subsidiary) rather than The Pokemon Company (the actual joint venture) and omitting Creatures Inc. as a co-owner. One claim about Kotiota 'claiming intellectual property rights' is a modest overstatement of its cited source, which describes a request for developer credit rather than an IP claim. No accepted community submissions were present to review. The page's crypto-risk framing would benefit from coverage of blockchain-native impersonation (fake Pokemon tokens/memecoins), which is currently absent.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}