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
- #2
- Score
- 92 → 92 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523951
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T05:24:29.610Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BUU1eeivHJ8GaGXZZbuXuAdJsjTeQb9zU3UzEcsTXEP8
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1328 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T05:24:29.483Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"15cc426f-104d-48d3-a394-8ba269b3e8e5","new_score":92,"page_slug":"operation-atlantic-approval-phishing-network","prev_score":92,"reason":"The page's core factual scaffolding (agency names, official titles, dollar/wallet/domain figures, the absence of any arrests, and the ERC-20 approval-phishing mechanism) is strongly corroborated by primary law-enforcement releases and independent secondary reporting, including several precise, non-obvious details (e.g., Brent Daniels' title change between announcements, the San Francisco coordination hub) that would be hard to fabricate convincingly. The two clearest defects are in the predecessor-operations timeline, where 'Project Atlas' and 'Operation Spincaster' are both dated to January 1, 2024 despite independently verifiable launch windows of November 2024 and roughly April-June 2024 respectively, and a minor source-misattribution of a $300 million January-2026 loss figure to 'the 2026 Crypto Crime Report' when the cited source attributes it elsewhere. No claim about a named individual's legal status was found to be overstated.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}