Security · Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
What you see is what you sign: closing the display gap
Why approvers must verify transaction details on trusted hardware, and how blind signing gets exploited.
DKDaniel Kho
Several of the largest thefts in recent years shared one trait: approvers signed transactions that looked legitimate on a compromised screen. The keys were safe. The humans were fooled.
The fix is to render the destination, amount and asset on a device the attacker can't reach, and to require approvers to confirm against that display, not the web dashboard.
Pair this with address whitelisting and out-of-band confirmation for new destinations, and you remove the cheapest attack path entirely.