{"id":28388,"date":"2026-05-13T06:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/ethereum-wants-to-end-blind-signing-with-new-security-feature\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:29:51","slug":"ethereum-wants-to-end-blind-signing-with-new-security-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/ethereum-wants-to-end-blind-signing-with-new-security-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum wants to end blind signing with new security feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p><strong>The Ethereum community has launched Clear Signing, an open standard that aims to replace unreadable transaction prompts with human-readable details before users approve onchain actions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_266b599172b7ef88ec2fdb175385dd79\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ethereum Clear Signing turns unreadable transaction data into plain summaries before users approve wallet actions.<\/li>\n<li>Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect and Fireblocks are early supporters of the new ERC-7730 security standard.<\/li>\n<li>The rollout follows Bybit\u2019s hack, where attackers abused signing screens to approve a malicious transfer.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum Foundation <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/2026\/05\/12\/clear-signing-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> a working group of wallet developers, security firms and its Trillion Dollar Security Initiative released the standard on May 12. The change targets self-custody users and institutions that need readable approval records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The effort targets blind signing, a weak point where users approve calldata or partial transaction data they cannot understand. The Foundation said approvals are often the last defense when users control assets onchain, but \u201cWhen it is done blindly, that defense does not hold.\u201d It wants \u201cWhat You See Is What You Sign\u201d to become the default for Ethereum users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ERC-7730 brings clearer transaction details<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Clear Signing uses ERC-7730, a shared JSON description format, a public registry, and independent reviews. The setup lets wallets show what a transaction intends to do without changing existing smart contracts or how transactions settle on Ethereum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum.org <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.org\/developers\/tutorials\/clear-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">says<\/a> a descriptor links a contract deployment to readable labels and field formats. A compatible wallet can then show action details such as the asset sent, the minimum received, the recipient and expiry time, instead of raw function selectors and integer values. Developers can add support to existing protocols without redeploying contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Ledger helped start ERC-7730 and early tooling, while teams including ZKnox, Sourcify, Cyfrin, Zama, WalletConnect, Fireblocks, Trezor, Keycard, MetaMask, Argot and independent contributors took part in the wider effort. The Foundation said its security initiative will host the infrastructure and support adoption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move follows several wallet and signing attacks that exposed weak approval screens. Earlier reports noted that North Korea\u2019s Lazarus Group stole more than $1.4 billion in ETH from Bybit by exploiting Safe Wallet\u2019s user interface and that Bybit\u2019s CEO could not fully verify transaction details before signing. That case made signing transparency a direct exchange security issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why timing matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Market updates have tied Clear Signing to the wider rise of phishing and approval scams. As previously reported, ERC-7730 replaces \u201chex gibberish\u201d with auditable transaction summaries and said Binance security data showed 22.9 million phishing attempts were blocked in the first quarter of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related coverage also said crypto protocols lost more than $606 million in the first 18 days of April 2026, the worst month since the Bybit breach. Clear Signing does not remove every attack path, and wallets still choose which registries they trust. But it gives users and institutions a clearer chance to see what they are about to approve before assets move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum community has launched Clear Signing, an open standard that aims to replace unreadable transaction prompts with human-readable details before users approve onchain actions.\u00a0 Summary Ethereum Clear Signing turns&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28389,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions\/28389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}