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Clear Signing Arrives on Ethereum: What the WazirX Lesson Means for South Asia The Ethereum Foundation, alongside Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect, Fireblocks and Cyfrin, has switched on a new wallet standard called clear signing.
For the Indian Ocean rim, where a single multi-signature failure once erased nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from one of the region's largest exchanges, this is more than a technical footnote.
The new framework finally retires blind signing, the practice of approving a raw hex string with no human-readable indication of what the transaction actually does.
Under the new approach, supported wallets pull a descriptor file that translates a smart contract call into plain English before a user signs.
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