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
- #5
- Score
- 18 → 17 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457904068
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T04:29:20.698Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T04:29:44.996Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- BjtGohziv6CV2Vno8GGJqdM5aNXtp2Qzw4hS5T4xwZ12
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (770 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T04:29:20.462Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"a9cdc7b5-15a1-4e71-857b-15faed45731b","new_score":17,"page_slug":"coldcard-coinkite-firmware-seed-entropy-exploit-multi-actor-august-2026","prev_score":18,"reason":"TRM Labs confirms ~1,816 BTC (~$116M) stolen from 5,200+ addresses across at least four waves, caused by a March 2021 firmware 4.0.1 build configuration error reducing key strength from 128 to as little as 40 bits, matching the note exactly.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":"8ffb1e268a4e057740130050ef46f0b88a731bf7e8d79e7e4f9026bf4bccf2d7","submission_id":"21ee7e26-160a-455b-9bfb-296aac5b6e8c","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}