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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.

Sequence
#1
Score
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
446704399
Off-chain at
2026-09-13T12:35:52.411Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
8ag26191BEPrpA3ZwjXkmyhLLaY1bpBM695Gqc8THfws
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (3862 chars)
{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"358a69b6-b2a1-4b3d-a8c3-d769bc18e08a","kind":"publish","page_slug":"0xf2e8ec859f63ab5a1f51b4b88300707169f68745","published_at":"2026-09-13T12:35:52.367Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"0xf2E8ec859f63aB5a1F51B4B88300707169f68745","sections":[{"content":"The address 0xf2E8ec859f63aB5a1F51B4B88300707169f68745 was checked on Etherscan, the primary block explorer for the Ethereum mainnet. It resolves as a standard externally owned account (EOA) rather than a smart contract. At the time of review, Etherscan reported an ETH balance of 0, zero outgoing or incoming transactions, no ERC-20 or other token holdings, and no funding source, meaning the address has no recorded on-chain activity of any kind on Ethereum mainnet. No name tag, public label, or private note has been attached to the address by Etherscan's labeling system. Because search engines returned no explorer pages tying this exact string to Binance Smart Chain, Base, Polygon, or other EVM-compatible chains beyond generic unrelated transaction hashes, it could not be confirmed whether the address has any activity on chains other than Ethereum mainnet.","heading":"On-Chain Activity","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Etherscan address lookup for 0xf2E8ec859f63aB5a1F51B4B88300707169f68745","type":"on_chain","url":"https://etherscan.io/address/0xf2e8ec859f63ab5a1f51b4b88300707169f68745"}]},{"content":"A search was conducted for this address on Chainabuse, a public crowd-sourced database used to report cryptocurrency scams, phishing, and fraud, as well as general web search for the address string combined with terms such as \"scam,\" \"fraud,\" and \"report.\" No entries specific to this address were located. This absence of results does not by itself confirm the address is safe — it may simply mean the address has not been used in any transaction significant enough to generate a public report, is newly generated, or has never been actively used to send or receive funds, consistent with its zero-transaction status on Etherscan.","heading":"Scam and Abuse Database Checks","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Chainabuse — Report and Combat Crypto Scams","type":"community_report","url":"https://chainabuse.com/en"}]},{"content":"General web searches for the address string, both in its unprefixed and mixed-case checksum form, returned no news articles, blog posts, forum threads, or social media discussion referencing this specific address. All returned results were either unrelated blockchain explorer pages for different addresses/transactions or generic informational pages about how to use Etherscan and Chainabuse. No evidence was found linking this address to any named project, individual, exchange, exploit, or lawsuit.","heading":"News and Public Discussion","severity":"low","sources":[]}],"sources_used":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Etherscan address lookup for 0xf2E8ec859f63aB5a1F51B4B88300707169f68745","type":"on_chain","url":"https://etherscan.io/address/0xf2e8ec859f63ab5a1f51b4b88300707169f68745"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Chainabuse — Report and Combat Crypto Scams","type":"community_report","url":"https://chainabuse.com/en"}],"summary":"This Ethereum address was submitted for investigation with no accompanying name, category, or context. Direct inspection on Etherscan shows it is an externally owned account (EOA, i.e. a standard wallet, not a smart contract) with zero ETH balance, zero transactions, and no token holdings on Ethereum. No scam reports, abuse-database entries, regulatory actions, news coverage, or community discussion referencing this address were found in web search or on Chainabuse. There is currently insufficient evidence to characterize this address as either risky or trustworthy.","timeline":[]},"v":1}