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
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443515515
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T17:19:56.979Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3fhUFxrVaQLqDG7uspEvSEDpW5rUksnMemma6U1KX1EC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1294 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T17:19:56.845Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"3e6b67e8-7352-44d7-981a-607117c1c555","new_score":0,"page_slug":"hong-kong-insurance-agent-romance-scam-fake-crypto-app-3-3m-july-2026","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's central claims — the HK$26M/US$3.3M loss figure, the 800% fabricated-return figure, the 25-case/HK$70M weekly aggregate, the HK$22M-wire/HK$4M-cash split, and the regulatory/enforcement context (VAIT taskforce, 2025 fraud statistics, Operation Atlantic) — are all independently confirmed against the sources the page cites for them, and the HKD/USD conversion is correct throughout. Two ancillary context claims in the 'Broader Weekly Context' section are problematic: the Fun Coffee HK$1 billion figure is not supported by the source cited for it (which reports HK$104M), and the Flare Network staking-fraud reference is a Seoul, South Korea case that is inaccurately framed as part of Hong Kong's crypto-fraud environment and is unsupported by any of the section's cited sources. No new victim-identifying detail beyond what the underlying reporting already published was found.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}