Beyond Clear Signing: What Else Should Wallets Do?
2026-11-04 –, Jasmine Stage 4

Clear signing is an important step toward safer wallet interactions, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. This talk looks beyond clear signing at other ways wallets can protect user intent. From scam alerting and transaction simulation to emerging work on enforceable transaction constraints.


Clear signing addresses a fundamental wallet problem: users should understand what they're authorizing. But that's only one question a wallet can help answer. Scam alerting can provide context about who a user is interacting with, while transaction simulation can show what is likely to happen before they sign.

Further out, research into frame transactions and enforceable transaction constraints points toward a stronger model: wallets could help users bound what a transaction is allowed to do, not just explain what it intends to do. This lightning talk maps these approaches as complementary ways to protect user intent, then highlights the challenge they share: none of them protect users until they make it through the access layer and into real wallets.

Walletbeat core contributor focused on wallet attribute research and pushing CROPS values into Ethereum's access layer

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