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
review · Usual USD0
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443508508
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-18T17:40:36.176Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FPV6MiVZvgZDe5BxMpZgYkdL1TW5A4qmK3koXXAbWDAC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1176 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-18T17:40:36.053Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"4ad423c0-3c66-495d-bd44-ead76676c1f7","new_score":42,"page_slug":"usual-usd0","prev_score":42,"reason":"The page's factual claims are well-supported by independent, credible reporting: founder identities, funding rounds, the January 2025 USD0++ depeg and community backlash, the May 2025 arbitrage exploit, and the March 2025 Zoth hack are all corroborated, and the page correctly attributes the Zoth incident to a third-party protocol rather than to Usual itself. Two defects were found: a timeline date error (Series A dated Dec 1 vs. actual ~Dec 23-29, 2024) and a TVL figure ($1.87B) that could not be independently confirmed. Two structural gaps matter more than the claim-level accuracy: every section's body content is empty (only source lists populated), and the page omits that USUAL's token has since lost ~99.5% of its value, which is directly relevant to a current risk read even though it is not itself evidence of fraud.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}