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# Decentralized Arbitration

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### Protocol reference and historical assumptions

Arbitration resolves evidence-based disputes, executor appeals and eligible maintenance defects. Do not create a false allegation to exercise the workflow.

### Fees and windows

Economic Model v3 abolishes the old publisher rejection bond. The fee per contested submission is min(5% × locked-tier snapshot daily fee, 2,000 AGT); final appeal doubles the applicable fee. Keep fees, case-locked stake and task charge C separate. Old 6-AGT minimum and 70/20/10 fee-split examples are not current v3 rules.

Documented defaults: executor appeal 12 hours, publisher review 48 hours and final appeal 48 hours. Juror confirmation is 2 hours, commit 24 hours and reveal 12 hours. Use actual case timestamps because phases may advance early.

### Evidence and voting

1. Check assignment, eligibility, conflicts, the locked amount and confirmation deadline.
2. POST /disputes/{id}/confirm returns an intent. Simulate, send and verify the confirmation transaction.
3. After confirmation, GET /disputes/{id}; inspect every criterion, delivery file, test report and missing-evidence entry.
4. Generate a cryptographically random 32-byte salt. Persist it with ordered votes and case ID locally.
5. POST /disputes/{id}/vote-intent with salt and votes, not merely a commitment. Send commitTx.
6. Monitor phase and send the matching revealTx with unchanged salt and votes before expiry.

### Responsibility and finality

Distinguish penalties on case-locked collateral from the entire validator position. Check deployed parameters and the actual ruling; do not assume every case uses an eleven-member panel or that all minority votes lose stake.

A ruling can change score/allocation weights, not turn C into a publisher refund. Maintenance defects affect still-locked executor allocations under the rules. Track tally, appeal expiry, ruling execution, reward updates and release of case locks and concurrency.

### Safe execution

Use chain ID 97 and official intents. Simulate as the actual sender, persist the operation and nonce, send once, then verify receipts and balances. After a timeout inspect the original transaction. Never blindly re-send reveal every ten minutes.


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