How We Test, and How We Make Money
Every affiliate site says it is independent. That claim is worth nothing on its own, so this page is built out of things you can check instead: what we ran ourselves, what we could not run and why, where the money comes from, and every correction we have published with the date attached.
The money, first
This site earns a commission when a reader registers at Duel through one of our links. The commission is paid by the operator, costs you nothing, and does not change based on what we write — there is no version of our review that pays better than another version.
That is still a conflict of interest, and putting it in the footer in grey text would be a way of pretending otherwise. It sits at the top of this page because it is the single most useful thing to know before reading anything else here. Where a page could plausibly be shaped by it — the promo code page above all — the disclosure is repeated in the body of the page itself.
What we do not do: accept payment for a rating, remove a finding at an operator's request, or publish sponsored content dressed as editorial. If any of that changes, this paragraph changes with it.
Who writes this
Everything here is written and edited by Nick Halvorsen, Crypto Gambling Analyst, who covers crypto gambling platforms full time. One byline, no content farm, no rotating cast of freelancers writing to a brief. If a page is wrong, one person is wrong.
Duel Verdict is not owned by, operated by or affiliated with Duel.com, Immortal Snail LLC, Duel: Arena, or any person or brand covered on this site.
What we actually ran
Testing claims are cheap. Here is the specific work behind the pages, with links to the parts you can reproduce.
- Provably fair verification, reproducible. Our provably fair page carries a complete worked example: a real server seed, its real SHA-256 commitment, a real HMAC-SHA256 digest and the conversion to a dice roll. Paste any line into your own hashing tool and you get our output. We also ran seed verification on five separate Originals rounds during review testing; the hashes matched each time. Five is a sample, not an audit, and we say so on the page.
- Real-money deposits and withdrawals, timed and logged across sessions rather than quoted from the operator's marketing.
- Licence and terms checked at source. The Anjouan licence number, the operating entity, the KYC thresholds and the restricted-country list come from published terms and registries, not from other review sites summarising each other.
- Primary sources for news. Fight results are checked against commission records and multiple independent outlets before we publish a table. When a claim rests on a single social post, we say that it rests on a single social post.
What we could not verify
This is the section most sites in this category do not have, and it is the one that makes the rest of the page mean something.
What duel.com serves our testing location. It is also, incidentally, the evidence behind our restricted countries page.
Duel blocks our current testing location at the network level, which means anything that lives behind a login is out of reach from here. Where that affects a number, we label it rather than quietly presenting third-party figures as our own measurement:
- The Zero Edge daily allowance and per-bet ceiling come from independent audits of the programme, not from a tracker we opened. The page says so and tells the reader their own account tracker is the authority.
- The per-game conversion step in Duel's provably fair implementation is documented rather than reproduced by us; the commitment and HMAC steps are the parts we ran.
- Crash settling against the drand beacon is described in Duel's documentation and reported by third parties. We have not reproduced a specific settlement against a specific drand round, and we say that on the page instead of implying we did.
Anything not marked this way is something we checked ourselves.
Corrections
Corrections go at the top of the page that was wrong, stay there permanently, and are listed here. Nothing gets quietly edited and nothing gets deleted.
| Date | Page | What we got wrong |
|---|---|---|
| August 30, 2026 | The Ketola fight that never happened | We covered an announced Ketola vs. Holden bout as a scheduled item on the Duel: Arena 1 card. It never appeared on the sanctioned card and was never contested. We rewrote the article around the correction rather than deleting it, and on September 6 the Florida commission's own results sheet confirmed the bout was never held. |
| September 6, 2026 | Duel: Arena 1 full results | Our results table carried a note saying a prelim had been announced and that we could not find a published result. That was accurate but incomplete: the bout took place and is absent from the commission's record. We replaced the note with the finding and published the evidence. |
Two entries is not a boast. It is a short history — the site is new, and a corrections log with nothing in it usually means nobody is checking rather than nobody is wrong.
Lines we hold regardless of traffic
Duel generates enormous search volume from things that have nothing to do with whether the casino pays out: celebrity guest dealers, founder stunts, fight-night controversy. We cover the verifiable, newsworthy parts of that, because how an operator markets itself is genuine evidence about the operator. We also leave money on the table in specific ways.
- We do not reproduce discriminatory or hateful content for traffic. When the promotion's own post about its unrecorded eleventh bout used a racial epithet, we reported that it did and declined to repeat it.
- We do not write "how to bypass the block" guides for readers in restricted countries. The restricted page explains what actually happens to those accounts at withdrawal instead.
- We do not present zero house edge as a way to win. It removes the cost of playing; it does not make the game profitable, and the page saying so is the one page on this site most likely to lose us a signup.
Responsible gambling
Gambling involves real financial risk. Nothing here is a guarantee of winnings, and verified 100% RTP describes a long-run average across thousands of rounds rather than your next session — a zero-edge game can take a bankroll to nothing and nothing will have gone wrong mathematically.
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