Wallet Extension

Overview

Extensions can store or access keys, connect to hardware devices, expose account and network information, construct transactions, and prompt users to sign application requests. They provide convenient decentralized-application access directly within the browser.

The browser environment creates significant risk. Fake extensions, compromised updates, malicious websites, excessive permissions, other extensions, and clipboard attacks can affect what users see or sign. A familiar icon or store listing does not prove publisher authenticity, and multiple wallet providers can conflict.

Users should install extensions from verified publisher links, check permissions and update history, and keep browsers supported. High-value accounts should use hardware signing with an independent trusted display. Unused extensions and sessions need removal. Organizations should manage approved software and browser profiles. Every signing prompt must show and verify network, contract, recipient, amount, fee, and permission scope.

Wallet Extension should be distinguished from the asset balance and from the application that displays it. For example, a customer-facing success message does not prove that the intended transaction executed on the correct network; operations should verify execution and reconcile the result before irreversible fulfillment.

The Wallet Extension workflow operates through several distinct states: request creation, user or policy approval, signature generation, network submission, execution, confirmation, balance recognition, and accounting. For Wallet Extension, a wallet interface or provider response can report progress, but it cannot replace verified transaction and ledger evidence.

Records for Wallet Extension should preserve account and address identifiers, asset and network identity, policy version, requester, approvers, signed payload or transaction reference, fees, timestamps, status history, confirmations, exceptions, and final balance and accounting effects. For Wallet Extension, corrections must remain linked rather than overwrite the original event.