diff --git a/packages/cookbook/messages/sign-verify.ts b/packages/cookbook/messages/sign-verify.ts
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+import {
+    signNep413Message,
+} from '@near-js/signer'; // 
+import {
+    verifyNep413Message,
+} from '@near-js/utils'; // this should move
+
+export default async function signAndVerifyNep413Message(accountId: string = ACCOUNT_ID, transactionHash: string = TX_HASH) {
+
+    // create a payload (Nep413Message)
+
+    const signedMessage = signNep413Message(Nep413Message);
+
+    try {
+        const isValid = verifyNep413Message(Nep413Message, signedMessage);
+    } catch (e) {
+        // invalid
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/utils/src/verify-message.ts b/packages/utils/src/verify-message.ts
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+import {
+    SignedMessage,
+} from '@near-js/signer'; // shared type maybe?
+
+type SignedMessage {
+    accountId: string; // The account name to which the publicKey corresponds as plain text (e.g. "alice.near")
+    publicKey: PublicKey; // The public counterpart of the key used to sign, expressed as a string with format "<key-type>:<base58-key-bytes>" (e.g. "ed25519:6TupyNrcHGTt5XRLmHTc2KGaiSbjhQi1KHtCXTgbcr4Y")
+    signature: Uint8Array; // The base64 representation of the signature.
+    state?: string;
+}
+
+export function verifyNep413Message({ accountId, publicKey, signature, state }: SignedMessage) {
+    // we need to be passed the payload (what the message SHOULD be)
+    const dataThatWasHashed = createNEP413Payload(nep413PayloadToVerify);
+
+    const payloadHash = hashPayload(dataThatWasHashed);
+    const signatureBytes = base64.decode(signedMessage);
+
+    // determine the keypair type from publicKey
+    KeyPair.fromString(publicKey) 
+
+    // if it is ed22519, then verify this way:
+    const isValid = ed25519.verify(
+        signatureBytes,
+        payloadHash,
+        base58.decode(publicKey.split(":")[1]),
+    );
+    if (!isValid) {
+        throw new Error("Ed25519 signature verification failed.");
+    }
+    
+    return true;    
+
+
+    try { // I do think we should throw, because there may be an unsupported keypair type
+        // return the verified payload on success, { success: true, payload: verifiedPayload }
+
+
+        verifySignature(payloadHash, signatureBytes, publicKey);
+    } catch (error) {
+        throw new Error(
+            `Cryptographic signature verification failed: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+            }`,
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+export function verifySignature(
+    payloadHash: Uint8Array,
+    signatureBytes: Uint8Array,
+    publicKeyString: string,
+): boolean {
+    if (publicKeyString.startsWith(ED25519_PREFIX)) {
+        const isValid = ed25519.verify(
+            signatureBytes,
+            payloadHash,
+            base58.decode(publicKeyString.split(":")[1]),
+        );
+        if (!isValid) {
+            throw new Error("Ed25519 signature verification failed.");
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    throw new Error(
+        `Unsupported public key type: "${publicKeyString}". Must start with "${ED25519_PREFIX}".`,
+    );
+}