Wallet Session

Overview

Sessions can exist after login, device approval, API authentication, browser connection, or a protocol handshake. They may expose account information, allow specific methods, receive events, or request signatures without repeating the initial connection process.

A session is not merely a convenience token. Theft can let an attacker impersonate a user or application, and persistent permissions may survive after the original task. Sessions can reveal addresses and activity even when each financial transaction still requires signing.

Wallets should bind sessions to verified identity, device, application origin, permitted accounts, networks, methods, and expiry. Sensitive sessions need secure storage, rotation, inactivity timeout, and revocation. Users should review and remove stale connections. Organizations must monitor creation, scope changes, unusual use, and termination. Every transaction request still requires exact intent validation independent of session approval.

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

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

Wallet Session 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.