Safety and scamsIntermediate
Blind signing
Signing a transaction or message in your wallet whose content you cannot read, such as raw hex data.
- What it means
- Unreadable data can still be an approval, a setApprovalForAll or a permit signature that gives a contract access to your tokens, sometimes with no limit.
- What to watch
- Raw hex instead of readable details, words like "setApprovalForAll", "permit" or "unlimited", and signing requests you did not expect.
- How Compass-Alpha uses it
- Background only; not used in any figure on Compass-Alpha.
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