Correction C-2026-0913-01: an empty result is not absence

2026-09-14 · Council of AI (CSOAI Ltd)

A census reported a handful of registry events where tens of thousands existed, because an RPC endpoint returned empty logs without an error.

Correction C-2026-0913-01 on the public corrections record shows why an empty result is not absence. A census tool merged on 12 September reported 8 ERC-8004 Identity Registry registrations on Ethereum. The corrected count over the same range is 50,783. The cause, as recorded: the rpc.flashbots.net endpoint returned well-formed empty log results for ranges that contained receipt-verified events, with no error, and every check the tool ran at the time passed against it. It was caught when Etherscan's transaction count for the registry disagreed with the tool, and one on-chain receipt proved a Registered log that the endpoint had not returned. The fix adds known-event integrity checks: an endpoint's scan is not trusted unless it returns a receipt-verified event whenever that event's block is in range. The same record currently reports its own signature_state as STALE, and says so rather than hiding it.

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