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# Ethereum Foundation has launched a service to protect against blind transaction signing

A working group involving the Ethereum Foundation (EF), wallet developers, and cybersecurity firms introduced the Clear Signing initiative — a protective mechanism against attacks through blind transaction signing.

The project's goal is to standardize blockchain operation descriptions and make them understandable for users.

As part of the initiative, EF introduced:

• ERC-7730: an open standard for transaction description format, proposed by Ledger in 2024;
• public registry: the platform clearsigning.org, where developers can publish smart contract descriptions;
• verification system: independent experts will review and confirm the accuracy of data in the registry.

When confirming transactions, wallets often display technical data as a hash code. Scammers exploit this by inserting malicious contracts. ERC-7730 introduces the "what you see is what you sign" format. It allows applications to provide clear and structured descriptions of blockchain actions.

Source: Clear Signing. To implement the project, a special descriptor registry was created. The Ethereum Foundation will act as a neutral operator of this infrastructure, and independent experts will verify the accuracy of descriptions through an attestation system.

Ledger, MetaMask, WalletConnect, Fireblocks, Trezor, and other major industry players participated in developing the standard. The authors urged creators of decentralized applications and crypto wallets to adopt ERC-7730 so that "transparent signing" becomes the default standard on the Ethereum network.

Recall that in March, Gnosis and Zisk, with EF support, created a framework to unify the fragmented ecosystem of second-layer networks.

In April, Gnosis co-founder Frederike Ernst announced that the project might attract not only L2 solutions.