Ethereum Foundation launches Clear Signing — open standard to replace blind signing with human-readable transactions!

The Ethereum Foundation has rolled out Clear Signing, an open standard designed to replace blind signing across the ecosystem. Instead of approving an opaque hex string, users will see a plain-language description of exactly what a transaction does before they sign it — a fundamental shift in how wallet interactions are presented.

Blind signing has been one of the most persistent attack vectors in crypto: phishing sites and malicious contracts exploit the fact that most users cannot decode raw calldata. Clear Signing addresses this at the protocol level by standardising how dApps and wallets communicate transaction intent in human-readable form.

As an open standard, adoption will depend on wallet developers and dApp teams integrating the spec — but with the Ethereum Foundation behind it, the gravitational pull toward broad uptake is real. For the broader ecosystem, this is the kind of…