Author: Olivia Martinez

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative has identified blind signing and transaction uncertainty as a user experience risk, and is exploring native transaction assertions as a next step to enforce a transaction’s final outcome, alongside Clear Signing. This post covers why a valid signature doesn’t always guarantee the transaction result you wanted, how native transaction assertions could protect users where today’s defenses stop, and the design choices behind them, with EIP-7906 (Transaction Assertions via State Diff Opcode) as one possible approach. Two ways a signed transaction can go wrong The problem starts with how Ethereum works. It executes exactly…

Today, we are excited to announce the start of the Fusaka audit contest, co-sponsored by Gnosis and Lido, hosted on Sherlock, and running for four weeks from September 15th. The goal is simple: maximize scrutiny of the Fusaka upgrade and surface vulnerabilities before they can impact the network. To raise the stakes, valid findings reported in the first week have a 2x multiplier applied to their points rewarded, and those in the second week have a 1.5x multiplier. To help security researchers, we’ve prepared a Fusaka auditor guide. We’re grateful to Gnosis for contributing 100,000 USD and Lido for contributing…