Blind signing is not only bad UX, It is one of the biggest problems in blockchains, it has been directly or indirectly responsible for most of the most devastating hacks this ecosystem has suffered.
Today, we are taking a step.
The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security Initiative and a working group, bringing together wallets, security firms, and infrastructure providers are launching an open standard and registry for human-readable transaction signing.
What we really cared about is making this forward looking:
* It is built to support many standards and evolve over time. We already added the most widely used paradigms in the ecosystem and will continue to add.
* We are building a knowledge base that will be used by both people and AI agents in the future to make more educated decisions when signing transactions. A clear signed transaction is better for everyone.
* We are supporting confidential blockchain operations, which are the future of the blockchain ecosystem. Encrypted fields allow for clear signing on private data - for Zama and for other privacy-oriented protocols.
Organizing this group of collaborators was a real mission over the past year. The Ethereum Foundation's acknowledgment, through the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative, that they are ready to address application-level problems created the opening for this kind of initiative in a way that is hard to achieve between companies alone. And every single person that was part of it was engaged in the most open and collaborative way.
This is not the final goal, but a real step, taken as a community rather than as separate companies, toward solving that problem. A year from now, more meaningful wallets will support clear signing. The framework exists. We will make adoption as easy as possible.
@CastilloLaurent @cyberdrk @BTChip @fredrik0x @hesterbruikman @PatrickAlphaC @lllbarteklll @kaanuzdogan @orenyomtov Jan, Manuel, Charles, Fab and many more and worked on this - so far, many more will hopefully join.