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
- #13
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465077992
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T23:07:41.747Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T23:08:55.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T23:08:55.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8hFrWHUZwwgye1e3yHEN8NQKTY37fBJvkfeEdJt9Mirq
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (600 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T23:07:41.326Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"f6f77518-dd5a-4dd9-af79-69e44c34b339","new_score":0,"page_slug":"goliath-ventures-christopher-delgado","prev_score":0,"reason":"CoinDesk confirms Delgado's guilty pleas, Oct 8 sentencing date and the forfeiture items listed in the note.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":13,"submission_content_hash":"eb1d7147073e840664c158c4476f3e6ec606681091700aadafaef529cd1a9466","submission_id":"b32886c6-6d09-446c-83c1-e72d2758e948","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}