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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is moving to position itself as a “credibly neutral steward” for the Clear Signing ecosystem, backing standardization and expanding support to make adoption easier for wallets and developers. In a Tuesday blog post, the EF said it has launched a public registry where contract descriptors can be submitted, reviewed, and distributed, and it has named ERC-7730—an open standard originally proposed by Ledger—as the shared format for those descriptions. The EF is also hosting tooling libraries to support Clear Signing.
Clear Signing is a broad term for human-readable descriptions of transactions sent from hardware wallets. It is designed to replace the opaque process of blind signing, which remains the default in many wallets when users approve transactions.
Instead of showing users raw hexadecimal data or low-level details, Clear Signing aims to present a simple description of what a transaction is intended to do. The EF summarized the goal as “What You See Is What You Sign.”
For example, users could be shown a message such as: “you are swapping 100 USDC for 0.05 (ETH) on Uniswap,” rather than opaque calldata returned by blind signing.
Security advocates have increasingly argued for Clear Signing standards because blind signing has been a commonly exploited attack vector. The article cited the Lazzarus Group’s theft of $1.4 billion from Bybit last year, carried out by tricking the exchange into blind signing a malicious transaction.
The EF said what is needed is a consistent, human-readable and structured way for both existing and new Ethereum applications to describe what a transaction will do, enabling wallets to present that information reliably to users.
Under the EF’s plan, ERC-7730 will function as an open standard for structured, human-readable transaction descriptions. The EF-supported clearsigning.org will serve as a public registry where contract descriptors can be submitted by anyone, then reviewed and “attested” by independent security experts.
Wallets will be able to pull verified descriptions from the registry and display them clearly. The EF said the approach is compatible with existing contracts because the descriptors are stored off-chain in the registry.
The EF encouraged developers to provide accurate descriptions of what their transactions do, and it encouraged security experts to review and attest to their correctness.
The EF framed Clear Signing as part of strengthening security and improving accessibility for future users and institutional adoption. It also pointed to recent work across security and privacy, including research into post-quantum solutions.
According to the article, last year the nonprofit created a “Trillion Dollar Security” team, including work aimed at improving Ethereum user experience. More recently, the EF launched a $1 million subsidy to help defray the costs of audits.
The EF highlighted Clear Signing contributions from ZKnox, Sourcify, Cyfrin, Zama, WalletConnect, Fireblocks, Trezor, Keycard, MetaMask, Argot, and independent contributors across the ecosystem.
Ledger first proposed ERC-7730 in 2024.
Separately, the article noted that on Monday the EF announced a major shakeup to its core Protocol team, with three high-profile Ethereum contributors stepping down as leaders of the cluster. Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik were named as Protocol co-leads.
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