Wallet Interface

Overview

Interfaces include mobile screens, browser extensions, web dashboards, command-line tools, hardware displays, SDKs, and APIs. They can show balances, addresses, permissions, transaction details, and connection requests while passing instructions to underlying signing or custody systems.

The interface can misrepresent or omit material details even when cryptography works correctly. Address truncation, token-symbol confusion, stale balances, blind signing, or compromised front-end code can cause users to authorize unintended actions. API consumers face similar risks from incomplete schemas and ambiguous states.

Design should display canonical network, asset, contract, recipient, amount, fee, method, allowance, and expiry at the decision point. High-risk signing benefits from an independent trusted display. Interfaces need secure origin, versioning, error handling, and accessibility. Requested, signed, broadcast, and settled states must remain distinct and traceable.

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

Material risks for Wallet Interface include credential compromise, malicious destinations, unsupported assets, wrong-network transfers, stale balances, compromised software, provider outage, privacy leakage, and inaccessible recovery material. For Wallet Interface, controls should reflect value, automation, reversibility, and whether the organization or a third party controls signing.

Wallet Interface 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.