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 · Decaf
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 74 → 74 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423652986
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-01T19:11:52.077Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HPjJZtZ9iG9DZXKhiVLC55V9T9aYdKpjqVaW2BzU9Xpk
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1258 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-01T19:11:51.992Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"f69c725c-b16d-438e-83bd-a4949385aa48","new_score":74,"page_slug":"decaf","prev_score":74,"reason":"The Decaf investigation page is broadly accurate in its characterization of the product, team backgrounds, and partnership history, with most partnership and team claims confirmed by independent sources. Two material issues stand out: (1) the security section attributes SOC 2, AES-256, and TLS/SSL claims to the compliance disclosure page, but that page contains none of these claims — this is the page's most significant factual error; (2) Visa's involvement is consistently described as a 'strategic investment' when available evidence indicates it was a competition prize or grant through the Visa Everywhere Initiative, not an equity stake. The 2025 goals are also misattributed to 'early 2026.' The trust score appears calibrated reasonably for a legitimate, active early-stage product with no adverse regulatory or security history, but the security-claim error warrants correction before the page is approved.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}