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
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426256327
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T18:48:42.107Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8xLP4oUvkfMYWg2cU9iRDDyAL8qpYZdupd5FsDWzTHfj
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (969 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-13T18:48:41.946Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"74734cc6-7e4c-4265-b170-779c91c2418e","new_score":2,"page_slug":"bitcoin-latinum-ltnm-donald-basile","prev_score":2,"reason":"The investigation's summary and timeline are well-supported by credible sources including an SEC litigation release, federal court dockets, and established legal and financial news outlets. The four partially-supported findings are matters of granularity (exact dollar figures, a precise publication date, Hellmuth endorsement start month) rather than material inaccuracies — no claim reviewed contradicts a more credible source. The investigation is structurally incomplete in that all section content body fields are empty strings, limiting the scope of this review to the summary and timeline only.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}