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Ethereum’s community has launched Clear Signing, an open standard designed to replace unreadable transaction prompts with human-readable details before users approve onchain actions.
Clear Signing converts transaction data that is typically difficult to interpret into plain summaries shown to users prior to approval. The effort is built around ERC-7730, an open standard intended to improve “blind signing,” a known weakness where users may approve calldata or partial transaction information they cannot understand.
The Ethereum Foundation said the standard targets self-custody users and institutions that require readable approval records, noting that approvals are often the last defense when users control assets onchain. It added that when approvals are done blindly, that defense does not hold.
The Ethereum Foundation said a working group of wallet developers, security firms, and its Trillion Dollar Security Initiative released the standard on May 12. Early supporters named in the release include Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect, and Fireblocks.
The Foundation said the standard is intended to make “What You See Is What You Sign” the default for Ethereum users.
ERC-7730 uses a shared JSON description format, a public registry, and independent reviews. Ethereum.org describes the approach as linking contract deployment to readable labels and field formats. In a compatible wallet, this can allow users to see transaction intent in clearer terms—such as the asset sent, the minimum received, the recipient, and an expiry time—rather than raw function selectors and integer values.
The Foundation said the design does not require changing existing smart contracts or altering how transactions settle on Ethereum. It also said developers can add support to existing protocols without redeploying contracts.
Ledger was described as helping start ERC-7730 and early tooling. Other teams and contributors named include ZKnox, Sourcify, Cyfrin, Zama, WalletConnect, Fireblocks, Trezor, Keycard, MetaMask, Argot, and independent contributors. The Foundation said its security initiative will host infrastructure and support adoption.
The rollout follows incidents that highlighted weaknesses in signing screens and approval flows. The Foundation pointed to the Bybit hack, where attackers abused signing screens to approve a malicious transfer. Earlier reports cited in the article said North Korea’s Lazarus Group stole more than $1.4 billion in ETH from Bybit by exploiting Safe Wallet’s user interface, and that Bybit’s CEO could not fully verify transaction details before signing.
The article links Clear Signing to broader concerns about phishing and approval scams. It references prior reporting that ERC-7730 replaces “hex gibberish” with auditable transaction summaries and that Binance security data showed 22.9 million phishing attempts were blocked in the first quarter of 2026.
It also cites related coverage stating that crypto protocols lost more than $606 million in the first 18 days of April 2026, described as the worst month since the Bybit breach.
While the Foundation said Clear Signing does not remove every attack path—and wallets still choose which registries they trust—it said the standard gives users and institutions a clearer chance to review what they are about to approve before assets move.
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