From a90467cb974b0abe7cd4be8ba0429bd32e316437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AdriGeorge <adrian7ko@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:39:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: improve DDO validation for remote DDOs in
 MetadataEventProcessor

---
 .../Indexer/processors/MetadataEventProcessor.ts       | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/Indexer/processors/MetadataEventProcessor.ts b/src/components/Indexer/processors/MetadataEventProcessor.ts
index 38ef9c334..c8a690c1d 100644
--- a/src/components/Indexer/processors/MetadataEventProcessor.ts
+++ b/src/components/Indexer/processors/MetadataEventProcessor.ts
@@ -158,8 +158,14 @@ export class MetadataEventProcessor extends BaseEventProcessor {
         )
         return
       }
-      // for unencrypted DDOs
-      if ((parseInt(flag) & 2) === 0 && !this.checkDdoHash(updatedDdo, metadataHash)) {
+      // For remote DDOs, the on-chain hash covers the remote pointer payload,
+      // not the fetched document body, so only inline unencrypted DDOs can be
+      // revalidated here against metadataHash.
+      if (
+        !isRemoteDDO(decryptedDDO) &&
+        (parseInt(flag) & 2) === 0 &&
+        !this.checkDdoHash(updatedDdo, metadataHash)
+      ) {
         INDEXER_LOGGER.error('Unencrypted DDO hash does not match metadata hash.')
         await ddoState.update(
           this.networkId,

From cf35d74497e572527a27212efc52acf644065145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AdriGeorge <adrian7ko@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: update version to 2.1.1 in package.json and
 package-lock.json

---
 package-lock.json | 4 ++--
 package.json      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 0a368781b..487678832 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "ocean-node",
-  "version": "2.1.0",
+  "version": "2.1.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "ocean-node",
-      "version": "2.1.0",
+      "version": "2.1.1",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 154626c06..7a20f414b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ocean-node",
-  "version": "2.1.0",
+  "version": "2.1.1",
   "description": "Ocean Node is used to run all core services in the Ocean stack",
   "author": "Ocean Protocol Foundation",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",