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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 20 → 20 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443510240
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T02:46:33.676Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 2oPQJNBdYYroZVg2Dr2JyzuxmwJVXRfMxcJcmQ8AiC3o
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1312 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T02:46:33.566Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"c9315989-c7a8-474a-97ba-e9c46606cf83","new_score":20,"page_slug":"bybit-v-dprk-lazarus-group-1-5b-hack-civil-lawsuit-august-2026","prev_score":20,"reason":"The page's core factual claims -- the $1.5B theft amount, FBI/industry attribution to DPRK's Lazarus Group/TraderTraitor, the Safe{Wallet} supply-chain compromise mechanics, the civil lawsuit's filing dates, legal theories (RICO/CFAA/Alien Tort Statute), the preliminary injunction, and the recovery-figure arithmetic -- are all corroborated by multiple independent, credible sources and no claim was found to be disputed or contradicted by more credible reporting. Weaknesses are minor: a small numeric discrepancy (52 vs. 50 FBI-listed addresses), several specific technical/legal details (Docker/macOS attack vector, 1.3B-euro Cryptomixer figure, Bybit-Cryptomixer link, specific FSIA legal-analysis claims) that are factually accurate per broader reporting but not fully supported by the exact sources cited within the page, and no link rot was detected among the sources actually reachable during this review.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}