Today marks the beginning of our commitment to making Clear Signing the default. Clear signing, built on ERC-7730 and stewarded by the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative, is here. WalletConnect is glad to be a part of the initiative alongside an Ethereum Working Group consisting of partners across wallets and hardware, security, infrastructure, and tooling.
Blind Signing is Ethereum's most costly UX hurdle
For years, the experience of approving a transaction on Ethereum has been fundamentally challenging for everyday users. What appears in a wallet is typically raw call data, which looks like unreadable hex strings to users.
This gap between what users see and what they're actually signing is not a minor inconvenience, but also a security loophole that attackers exploit systematically. Incidents like the Bybit hack are a stark reminder that blind signing isn't just a UX problem, but indeed a safety crisis measured in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
What is clear signing and why does it matter?
Clear signing is the practice of presenting blockchain transactions in plain, human-readable language, so that users can understand exactly what they're approving before they sign.
With clear signing, instead of staring at a string of hex characters and trusting that the wallet, the dapp, and the smart contract all behave as expected, users see a description that matches their intent: "Swap 100 USDC for ETH on Uniswap," "Approve Aave to spend up to 500 DAI," or "Delegate voting power to 0xabc…"
This matters because every transaction a user signs is a moment of trust, and that trust shouldn't depend on faith alone. Clear signing turns transaction approval from an act of blind trust into an informed decision, and in an ecosystem where a single signature can move millions, that shift from opacity to clarity isn't a nice-to-have, but the difference between safety and catastrophe.
The collaborative answer: ERC-7730 and See What You Sign
WalletConnect has collaborated with partners across the ecosystem, including Wallets and Hardware (Ledger, Trezor, Zknox, MetaMask, WalletConnect), Security (Cyfrin), Infrastructure (Fireblocks, Zama), Tooling (Sourcify, Argot) and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative. Together, the group has developed the solution: ERC-7730, a standard for human-readable transaction descriptions that works across wallets, hardware devices, and apps alike.
The principle behind it is simple: See What You Sign. When a user delegates tokens, swaps assets, or interacts with a smart contract, they should see precisely that in plain language that matches their intent.
ERC-7730 is now live. The registry, permissionless by design, is operational. The tooling exists. The Ethereum Foundation has removed every structural barrier that previously blocked ecosystem-wide adoption. Clear signing is here!
WalletConnect's Commitment
WalletConnect connects over 700 wallets to the apps and protocols users interact with every day, across a network of 500+ million users. That reach comes with a clear responsibility: to make sure the connectivity layer we provide reinforces user safety, not just user convenience.
We're proud to support the Ethereum Foundation's clear signing initiative, and we're putting that support into action in three ways.
First, interoperability. We're working to ensure that clear signing integrates seamlessly across the WalletConnect protocol, so wallets that implement ERC-7730 can surface human-readable transaction descriptions regardless of which app a user is connected through.
Second, WalletConnect Certified. Clear signing support will be a meaningful signal in our certification framework. Wallets that render ERC-7730 descriptors and give users readable transactions will be recognized for it. We want clarity to be a visible competitive advantage for the wallets in our ecosystem.
Third, ecosystem coordination. We're actively working with wallets in our network to make clear signing a priority on 2026 roadmaps. We also hosted WalletCon Cannes on March 31st alongside the Ethereum Foundation, Ledger, Trezor, and other coalition members to demonstrate what a clear signing-enabled ecosystem looks like in practice. You can check out the panel where we discussed Clear Signing below.
Clear signing is here - let’s make it the default
Clear signing succeeds when blind signing is simply no longer an option that wallets offer, when protocols publish ERC-7730 descriptors as a matter of course, and when users expect readable transactions as a baseline, not a feature.
The Ethereum Foundation has laid the foundation; the standard is live. Now it's on wallets, protocols, tooling providers, and the broader ecosystem to make adoption inevitable.
WalletConnect is in. We hope you are too.