fix: the confirmation screen reads its balance on the network it is drawn for (closes #558)

ConfirmTx showed and checked the balance Send handed it, so a screen the popup reopened onto stated the balance as Send knew it, not as it is on the network the screen is drawn for.

Each time it is shown, ConfirmTx now reads the From address's ETH balance, and for a token send its token balance, from the node reviewedNetworkProvider() picks for the network the transaction was reviewed for, the node the fee estimate and recipient checks ask. The fee estimate starts once the read returns. Until then the balance line says "Loading..." and Sign & Send stays disabled; a failed read is stated as unknown. Each message the read can bring has a box reserved from the first paint, so nothing moves when it returns.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -1743,37 +1743,46 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       arrives, as the balance minus the reserve, and the transaction is signed
       with that estimate's fee fields, so a fee fetched again at signing cannot
       exceed what the amount leaves behind. The address keeps whatever part of
-      the reserve the transaction does not use. If the balance no longer covers
+      the reserve the transaction does not use. If the balance could not be read
-      the fee, the amount is left as it was and the amount-plus-fee error below
+      or no longer covers the fee, the amount is left as it was and one of the
-      blocks the send
+      errors below blocks the send
-    - Your balance: value + symbol (USD in parentheses), or `unknown (SYMBOL)`
+    - Your balance: the From address's balance on the network its transaction
-      for a token whose scale is unknown
+      was reviewed on, read from that network's RPC endpoint each time the
+      screen is shown, so a screen the popup reopens onto states and checks that
+      network's balance as it is then, whichever network is active. "Loading..."
+      until the read returns, then value + symbol (USD in parentheses), or
+      `unknown (SYMBOL)` for a token whose scale is unknown or when the read
+      failed. The amount check uses the same balances: the ETH balance, and for
+      a token transfer the token balance as well
     - Network fee: "Estimating..." then two lines, or "Unable to estimate",
-      fetched async. The first line is what the transfer is expected to cost,
+      fetched async once the balance is read. The first line is what the
-      `gasLimit * gasPrice` (USD in parentheses); the second is the
+      transfer is expected to cost, `gasLimit * gasPrice` (USD in parentheses);
-      `gasLimit * maxFeePerGas` reserve the node requires, which is what the
+      the second is the `gasLimit * maxFeePerGas` reserve the node requires,
-      balance check gates on. The second line is omitted on a network with no
+      which is what the balance check gates on. The second line is omitted on a
-      type-2 pricing, where the two are the same number, but its space is
+      network with no type-2 pricing, where the two are the same number, but its
-      reserved either way
+      space is reserved either way
     - Warnings: inline warnings from the local checks (scam address, self-send)
       plus four reserved warning boxes made visible by the async checks —
       recipient that has never sent a transaction and holds no ETH, recipient is
       a contract, burn address, and an Etherscan phishing/scam label. An address
       that has received ETH but never sent a transaction still holds that ETH,
       so it gets no warning
-    - Errors (insufficient balance), plus three reserved error boxes — the
+    - Errors (an invalid amount), plus five reserved error boxes, so the balance
-      amount plus the fee exceeds the balance (ETH transfers), not enough ETH to
+      and the fee arriving later move nothing — the amount exceeds the balance
-      pay the fee for the transfer (ERC-20 transfers), and the fee could not be
+      (for a token whose scale is unknown it says the token's balance is
-      estimated. The first two are mutually exclusive per transfer type, so only
+      unknown), the balance could not be read (it asks the user to go back and
-      the applicable one holds space. The last names its cause: for a token
+      try again), the amount plus the fee exceeds the balance (ETH transfers),
-      whose scale is unknown the fee can never be estimated, and it says the
+      not enough ETH to pay the fee for the transfer (ERC-20 transfers), and the
-      wallet does not know how many decimal places the token uses and that the
+      fee could not be estimated. The third and fourth are mutually exclusive
-      transaction cannot be sent; for any other failure it asks the user to go
+      per transfer type, so only the applicable one holds space. The last names
-      back and try again
+      its cause: for a token whose scale is unknown the fee can never be
+      estimated, and it says the wallet does not know how many decimal places
+      the token uses and that the transaction cannot be sent; for any other
+      failure it asks the user to go back and try again
     - Password: an inline field on this screen, not a modal, with its own error
       line
-    - "Sign & Send" button (disabled if errors, and while the network fee
+    - "Sign & Send" button (disabled if errors, while the balance is being read,
-      estimate is pending or unavailable)
+      and while the network fee estimate is pending or unavailable)
 - **Transitions**:
     - "Sign & Send" (correct password) → broadcast tx → **WaitTx**
     - "Sign & Send" (correct password) → broadcast fails → **ErrorTx**
@@ -1795,9 +1804,9 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       whichever network is active: its amounts are in that network's native
       currency, its USD values are that network's, so a testnet transaction
       shows none, its From, To and token contract links open that network's
-      explorer, the fee estimate and the contract and never-sent recipient
+      explorer, the balance read, the fee estimate and the contract and
-      checks ask that network's RPC endpoint, and the Etherscan label check asks
+      never-sent recipient checks ask that network's RPC endpoint, and the
-      that network's explorer
+      Etherscan label check asks that network's explorer
     - "Sign & Send" (wrong password) → "Wrong password." on the password error
       line, no screen change
     - "Sign & Send" signs as the From address above, not as whichever address is

src/popup/index.html

@@ -664,6 +664,20 @@
                     id="confirm-errors"
                     class="mb-2 border border-border border-dashed p-2 invisible min-h-[1.25rem]"
                 ></div>
+                <!-- Its sentence names the token, or why the token's balance
+                is unknown, so show() in confirmTx.js sets it. -->
+                <div
+                    id="confirm-balance-error"
+                    class="mb-2 border border-border border-dashed p-2 text-xs invisible"
+                ></div>
+                <div
+                    id="confirm-balance-read-error"
+                    class="mb-2 border border-border border-dashed p-2 text-xs invisible"
+                >
+                    Your balance could not be read from the network, so this
+                    transaction cannot be checked against it. Please go back and
+                    try again.
+                </div>
                 <div
                     id="confirm-amount-fee-error"
                     class="mb-2 border border-border border-dashed p-2 text-xs invisible"

src/popup/views/confirmTx.js

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 // Shows transaction details, warnings, errors. On Sign & Send,
 // reads inline password, decrypts secret, signs and broadcasts.
 
-const { parseEther, parseUnits, formatEther, Contract } = require("ethers");
+const {
+    parseEther,
+    parseUnits,
+    formatEther,
+    formatUnits,
+    Contract,
+} = require("ethers");
 const {
     $,
     showError,
@@ -35,11 +41,12 @@ const {
 const { ERC20_ABI, isBurnAddress } = require("../../shared/constants");
 const {
     displayedDecimals,
+    toDecimals,
     transferAmountUnits,
 } = require("../../shared/transferAmount");
 const { assertWithinCeilings } = require("../../shared/approvalVerify");
-// The balance lines, the fee reserve and the insufficient-balance messages go
+// The balance line and the fee reserve go through it, as the approval screen's
-// through it, as the approval screen's amounts do.
+// amounts do.
 const { truncateAmountNeverZero } = require("../../shared/amountDisplay");
 const {
     CODES,
@@ -63,6 +70,13 @@ let feeWei = null;
 // amount was derived from. Null for any other send, which ethers prices from
 // the node at signing time.
 let maxSendFees = null;
+// The From address's balances on the network this screen is drawn for, read
+// from that network's node by readBalances() each time the screen is shown,
+// so a screen the popup reopens onto states them as they are then, not as
+// Send knew them. Null until the read returns; then `eth` and `token` are
+// decimal strings, `token` null for an ETH send or a token whose scale is
+// unknown, and both null if the read failed.
+let balances = null;
 
 function restore() {
     const d = state.viewData;
@@ -101,18 +115,48 @@ function renderAmount(txInfo) {
     );
 }
 
+// The balance line, with its USD value: "Loading..." until readBalances()
+// returns, then the balance it read.
+function renderBalance(txInfo) {
+    const isErc20 = txInfo.token !== "ETH";
+    const rawSymbol = isErc20
+        ? txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?"
+        : nativeCurrencyByChainId(txInfo.chainId);
+    const symbol = displaySymbol(rawSymbol);
+    if (balances === null) {
+        $("confirm-balance").textContent = "Loading...";
+        return;
+    }
+    // A null balance is one nobody established, for a token whose scale is
+    // unknown or after a read that failed, and is stated as unknown, never as
+    // zero (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/349).
+    const bal = isErc20 ? balances.token : balances.eth;
+    if (bal === null) {
+        $("confirm-balance").textContent = "unknown (" + symbol + ")";
+        return;
+    }
+    const price = getPrice(isErc20 ? rawSymbol : "ETH", txInfo.chainId);
+    const balUsd = price ? parseFloat(bal) * price : null;
+    $("confirm-balance").textContent = valueWithUsd(
+        truncateAmountNeverZero(bal) + " " + symbol,
+        balUsd,
+    );
+}
+
 function show(txInfo) {
     pendingTx = txInfo;
     feeStatus = FEE_PENDING;
     feeWei = null;
     maxSendFees = null;
+    balances = null;
     // The network this screen is drawn for, and the only one it sends on: the
     // one active when Send handed the transaction over. Drawn again from the
     // saved transaction, as when the popup reopens onto this screen, it keeps
     // that network, so Sign & Send refuses once Settings has switched to
     // another. Everything this screen shows is that network's: native
-    // currency, USD values, explorer links, and the node and explorer its
+    // currency, USD values, explorer links, the balance, and the node and
-    // checks ask. The wait, success and error screens label amounts by it.
+    // explorer its checks ask. The wait, success and error screens label
+    // amounts by it.
     if (!txInfo.chainId) txInfo.chainId = currentNetwork().chainId;
 
     const isErc20 = txInfo.token !== "ETH";
@@ -165,33 +209,7 @@ function show(txInfo) {
     $("confirm-to-ens").classList.add("hidden");
 
     renderAmount(txInfo);
-
+    renderBalance(txInfo);
-    // Balance (with inline USD)
-    const ethPrice = getPrice("ETH", txInfo.chainId);
-    const tokenPrice = getPrice(rawSymbol, txInfo.chainId);
-    if (isErc20) {
-        // null is a balance whose scale nothing knows, not a balance of zero
-        // (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/349). The send is
-        // refused at encode time for the same missing scale; what this line
-        // must not do is state a quantity nobody established.
-        const bal = txInfo.tokenBalance;
-        const balUsd =
-            tokenPrice && bal != null ? parseFloat(bal) * tokenPrice : null;
-        $("confirm-balance").textContent =
-            bal == null
-                ? "unknown (" + symbol + ")"
-                : valueWithUsd(
-                      truncateAmountNeverZero(bal) + " " + symbol,
-                      balUsd,
-                  );
-    } else {
-        const bal = txInfo.balance || "0";
-        const balUsd = ethPrice ? parseFloat(bal) * ethPrice : null;
-        $("confirm-balance").textContent = valueWithUsd(
-            truncateAmountNeverZero(bal) + " " + symbol,
-            balUsd,
-        );
-    }
 
     // Check for warnings (synchronous local checks)
     const localWarnings = getLocalWarnings(txInfo.to, {
@@ -257,6 +275,20 @@ function show(txInfo) {
               " cannot be checked against your balance. Please go back and" +
               " try again.";
 
+    // So does the message for an amount the balance does not cover. It is
+    // set here, before the first paint, so the balance read returning only
+    // makes it visible and moves nothing, which is why it quotes no balance.
+    // Without the token's scale readBalances() reads no token balance.
+    $("confirm-balance-error").textContent =
+        isErc20 && toDecimals(txInfo.tokenDecimals) === null
+            ? "This token's balance is unknown, because nothing this wallet" +
+              " can consult reports how many decimal places it uses, so the" +
+              " amount you are trying to send cannot be checked against it."
+            : "Your " +
+              symbol +
+              " balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and send" +
+              " a smaller amount.";
+
     renderValidation(txInfo);
 
     // Reset password field and error
@@ -282,69 +314,78 @@ function show(txInfo) {
         $("confirm-burn-warning").style.visibility = "visible";
     }
 
-    estimateGas(txInfo);
+    // The fee is estimated once the balances are read, because a max ETH
+    // send's amount is the ETH balance minus the estimate's reserve.
+    readBalances(txInfo).then(() => estimateGas(txInfo));
     checkRecipientHistory(txInfo);
 }
 
+// Read the From address's balances from the node of the network this
+// transaction was reviewed for: ETH, and for a token send the token, at the
+// scale the screen renders the amount with. A token whose scale is unknown has
+// no balance to read. Never rejects.
+async function readBalances(txInfo) {
+    let read;
+    try {
+        const provider = reviewedNetworkProvider(txInfo);
+        const decimals = toDecimals(txInfo.tokenDecimals);
+        const readToken = txInfo.token !== "ETH" && decimals !== null;
+        const [ethWei, tokenUnits] = await Promise.all([
+            provider.getBalance(txInfo.from),
+            readToken
+                ? new Contract(txInfo.token, ERC20_ABI, provider).balanceOf(
+                      txInfo.from,
+                  )
+                : null,
+        ]);
+        read = {
+            eth: formatEther(ethWei),
+            token: readToken ? formatUnits(tokenUnits, decimals) : null,
+        };
+    } catch (e) {
+        log.errorf("balance read failed:", e.shortMessage || e.message);
+        read = { eth: null, token: null };
+    }
+    // The user may have left this transaction while the read was in flight.
+    if (pendingTx !== txInfo) return;
+    balances = read;
+    renderBalance(txInfo);
+    renderValidation(txInfo);
+}
+
 // Render the balance check for the transaction on screen. Called once during
-// show() and again when the fee estimate resolves or fails. Every element it
+// show(), again when the balances are read, and again when the fee estimate
-// touches already occupies its space, so re-running it never moves anything.
+// resolves or fails. Every element it touches already occupies its space, so
+// re-running it never moves anything.
 function renderValidation(txInfo) {
     const isErc20 = txInfo.token !== "ETH";
-    const symbol = isErc20
+
-        ? displaySymbol(txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?")
+    // Null while the balances are being read and after a read that failed.
-        : nativeCurrencyByChainId(txInfo.chainId);
+    // validateTransfer() takes a missing balance as nothing to spend from, so
+    // sending stays blocked either way, and the only message shown for it is
+    // the one saying the read failed.
+    const ethBalance = balances ? balances.eth : null;
+    const tokenBalance = balances ? balances.token : null;
+    const balanceRead = ethBalance !== null;
 
     const { canSend, codes } = validateTransfer({
         isErc20,
         amount: txInfo.amount,
         tokenDecimals: txInfo.tokenDecimals,
-        ethBalance: txInfo.balance,
+        ethBalance,
-        tokenBalance: txInfo.tokenBalance,
+        tokenBalance,
         feeStatus,
         feeWei,
     });
 
-    // Messages carrying the user's own numbers are built here; the fixed
+    // An invalid amount is known before the first paint, so its message is
-    // sentences live in the reserved elements in index.html, except the
+    // written here. Every message a later result brings has a reserved
-    // gas and fee-unknown ones, which show() sets.
+    // element, its sentence fixed in index.html or set by show(), and is only
+    // made visible below, so nothing moves when the result arrives.
     const messages = [];
     if (codes.includes(CODES.AMOUNT_INVALID)) {
         messages.push("Please enter a valid amount to send.");
     }
-    if (codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_TOKEN)) {
-        messages.push(
-            txInfo.tokenBalance == null
-                ? "This token's balance is unknown, because nothing this" +
-                      " wallet can consult reports how many decimal places it" +
-                      " uses, so the amount you are trying to send cannot be" +
-                      " checked against it."
-                : "Insufficient " +
-                      symbol +
-                      " balance. You have " +
-                      truncateAmountNeverZero(txInfo.tokenBalance) +
-                      " " +
-                      symbol +
-                      " but are trying to send " +
-                      txInfo.amount +
-                      " " +
-                      symbol +
-                      ".",
-        );
-    }
-    if (codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH)) {
-        messages.push(
-            "Insufficient balance. You have " +
-                truncateAmountNeverZero(txInfo.balance || "0") +
-                " " +
-                symbol +
-                " but are trying to send " +
-                txInfo.amount +
-                " " +
-                symbol +
-                ".",
-        );
-    }
 
     const errorsEl = $("confirm-errors");
     if (messages.length > 0) {
@@ -357,13 +398,20 @@ function renderValidation(txInfo) {
         errorsEl.style.visibility = "hidden";
     }
 
+    setVisible("confirm-balance-read-error", balances !== null && !balanceRead);
+    setVisible(
+        "confirm-balance-error",
+        balanceRead &&
+            (codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_TOKEN) ||
+                codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH)),
+    );
     setVisible(
         "confirm-amount-fee-error",
-        codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH_WITH_FEE),
+        balanceRead && codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH_WITH_FEE),
     );
     setVisible(
         "confirm-gas-error",
-        codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH_FOR_FEE),
+        balanceRead && codes.includes(CODES.INSUFFICIENT_ETH_FOR_FEE),
     );
     setVisible(
         "confirm-fee-unknown-error",
@@ -472,14 +520,14 @@ async function estimateGas(txInfo) {
         }
         feeStatus = FEE_KNOWN;
         feeWei = gasCostWei;
-        // A max ETH send is the balance minus this estimate's reserve, not the
+        // A max ETH send is the balance readBalances() read minus this
-        // Send screen's, and is signed with this estimate's fee fields: fees
+        // estimate's reserve, not the Send screen's, and is signed with this
-        // fetched again at signing could exceed the reserve it leaves, and the
+        // estimate's fee fields: fees fetched again at signing could exceed
-        // node would refuse it for want of funds. Where the balance no longer
+        // the reserve it leaves, and the node would refuse it for want of
-        // covers the fee, the amount is left as it is and the balance check
+        // funds. Where the balance is unknown or no longer covers the fee, the
-        // below says so.
+        // amount is left as it is and the balance check below says so.
         if (txInfo.max && txInfo.token === "ETH") {
-            const amount = maxEthAmount(txInfo.balance, gasCostWei);
+            const amount = maxEthAmount(balances?.eth, gasCostWei);
             if (amount !== null) {
                 txInfo.amount = amount;
                 renderAmount(txInfo);
@@ -546,8 +594,8 @@ async function populateVerifyAndSend(connectedSigner, tx, fees = null) {
 }
 
 // Show a full-sentence send failure in the reserved errors box, the same
-// element and markup renderValidation() uses for messages carrying the user's
+// element and markup renderValidation() uses for the invalid-amount message,
-// own numbers, so it never moves anything on the screen.
+// so it never moves anything on the screen.
 function showSendError(message) {
     const el = $("confirm-errors");
     el.innerHTML = `<div class="text-xs">${escapeHtml(message)}</div>`;

src/popup/views/send.js

@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ function renderSendTokenSelect(addr) {
     }
 }
 
-// The token balance and scale the Send screen states and hands the
+// The token balance the Send screen states, and the scale it hands the
-// confirmation screen, so the two screens describe the holding the same way.
+// confirmation screen, which reads the balance itself from the network it is
+// drawn for.
 //
 // The scale is resolved the same way balances.js resolved the scale it
 // DISPLAYED this token's balance at: bundled list, then the user's tracked
@@ -188,13 +189,11 @@ function renderSendTokenSelect(addr) {
 //
 // The two resolutions can therefore differ, and where they do, the stored
 // `balance` is a quantity computed at a scale this screen has just declined to
-// stand behind. Stating it would leave validateTransfer() checking the amount
+// stand behind, so it is withdrawn: unknown scale means unknown balance. It is
-// against a number the wallet does not vouch for, so it is withdrawn: unknown
+// null rather than "0": this screen states it as unknown, as the confirmation
-// scale means unknown balance. It is null rather than "0": both screens state
+// screen does, and Max fills nothing in for it. Only a stored quantity is
-// an unknown balance as unknown, and validateTransfer() treats it as no balance
+// withdrawn: the "0" for a token that has no row at all is an absence of
-// to spend from, which is the fail-closed side of an amount nobody can check.
+// holdings, which is true at every scale.
-// Only a stored quantity is withdrawn: the "0" for a token that has no row at
-// all is an absence of holdings, which is true at every scale.
 function tokenBalanceAndDecimals(addr, token) {
     const tb = (addr.tokenBalances || []).find(
         (t) => t.address.toLowerCase() === token.toLowerCase(),
@@ -378,7 +377,6 @@ function init(_ctx) {
         const addr = currentAddress();
 
         let tokenSymbol = null;
-        let tokenBalance = null;
         let tokenDecimals = null;
         if (token !== "ETH") {
             tokenSymbol = resolveSymbol(
@@ -386,10 +384,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
                 addr.tokenBalances,
                 state.trackedTokens,
             );
-            ({ tokenBalance, tokenDecimals } = tokenBalanceAndDecimals(
+            ({ tokenDecimals } = tokenBalanceAndDecimals(addr, token));
-                addr,
-                token,
-            ));
         }
 
         // The confirmation screen's own amount check, so it is never shown
@@ -424,9 +419,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
             ensName: ensName,
             amount: amount,
             token: token,
-            balance: addr.balance,
             tokenSymbol: tokenSymbol,
-            tokenBalance: tokenBalance,
             tokenDecimals: tokenDecimals,
             max: amountIsMax,
         });

src/shared/transferAmount.js

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 // encoded with.
 //
 // A token amount is a decimal string plus a scale, and the two come from
-// different places. The confirmation screen renders the amount, the balance and
+// different places. The confirmation screen renders the amount, the symbol and
-// the symbol from the block explorer's cached metadata (see
+// the balance it reads from the node with the block explorer's cached metadata
-// fetchTokenBalances() in balances.js); the transfer used to be encoded from
+// (see fetchTokenBalances() in balances.js); the transfer used to be encoded
-// decimals() read off the contract at signing time, and nothing compared the
+// from decimals() read off the contract at signing time, and nothing compared
-// two. A token whose on-chain scale differs from the cached one — an
+// the two. A token whose on-chain scale differs from the cached one — an
 // upgradeable or proxy token, a caller-dependent one, a stale or wrong explorer
 // entry — therefore signed an amount that was never displayed, off by a power
 // of ten for every decimal place of disagreement.

src/shared/txValidation.js

@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ function isValidAmount(amount, tokenDecimals = null) {
 
 // The most ETH a send can carry: the exact balance minus the fee reserve from
 // feeReserveWei(), as a decimal string, so validateTransfer() passes it with
-// exactly that reserve left behind. `ethBalance` is the exact decimal string
+// exactly that reserve left behind. `ethBalance` is an exact decimal string as
-// balances.js stores, never a rounded one. Null when the balance does not
+// formatEther() writes it, never a rounded one. Null when the balance does not
 // leave anything to send once the fee is paid, or when either input is
 // unusable.
 function maxEthAmount(ethBalance, feeWei) {

tests/addressKey.test.js

@@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ async function confirmSend(from, selected) {
         to: RECIPIENT,
         amount: "0.5",
         token: "ETH",
-        balance: "1.0",
     });
     await settle();
     node("confirm-tx-password").value = PASSWORD;

tests/confirmTxNetworkSwitch.test.js

@@ -15,20 +15,37 @@
 // reviewed for, because choosing that network again in Settings and pressing
 // Back only unhides it, and Sign & Send then sends from it.
 //
+// Its balance line and balance check are that network's balance, read from
+// that network's node each time the screen is drawn
+// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/558), not the balance Send
+// handed over. The fee estimate after the read stays on that network when
+// the network is switched while the read runs.
+//
 // Driven through the real confirmation screen, signer and chain switch, with
 // only the node, fetch and the DOM stubbed. The stub node is on the network
-// its provider was built for, so a broadcast records the network it went to.
+// its provider was built for, so a broadcast records the network it went to,
+// and a balance read answers with that network's balance.
 
 "use strict";
 
-// The questions the stub node was asked for the fee and the recipient checks,
+// The questions the stub node was asked for the balance, the fee and the
-// by method, network name and RPC URL, in order. The signed transactions it
+// recipient checks, by method, network name and RPC URL, in order. The
-// was handed, with its network's chain id and RPC URL. And whether it quotes
+// balances it reports on each network, by network name: ETH in wei and the
-// fees as a network with no type-2 pricing does.
+// token in its base units. The signed transactions it was handed, with its
-const mockNode = { asked: [], broadcast: [], legacyFees: false };
+// network's chain id and RPC URL. And whether it quotes fees as a network
+// with no type-2 pricing does.
+const mockNode = {
+    asked: [],
+    balanceWei: {},
+    tokenUnits: {},
+    broadcast: [],
+    legacyFees: false,
+};
 
 jest.mock("ethers", () => {
     const actual = jest.requireActual("ethers");
+    // The selector of balanceOf(address).
+    const BALANCE_OF = "0x70a08231";
     class StubProvider {
         constructor(url, network) {
             this.url = url;
@@ -44,6 +61,22 @@ jest.mock("ethers", () => {
         async getNetwork() {
             return this.network;
         }
+        async getBalance() {
+            this.record("getBalance");
+            return mockNode.balanceWei[this.network.name];
+        }
+        // balanceOf() is the one contract call the screen makes before Sign
+        // & Send.
+        async call(tx) {
+            if (!tx.data.startsWith(BALANCE_OF)) {
+                throw new Error("the stub node answers only balanceOf()");
+            }
+            this.record("balanceOf");
+            return actual.AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().encode(
+                ["uint256"],
+                [mockNode.tokenUnits[this.network.name]],
+            );
+        }
         async getFeeData() {
             this.record("getFeeData");
             if (mockNode.legacyFees) {
@@ -158,7 +191,13 @@ global.document = {
 };
 global.navigator = { clipboard: { writeText() {} } };
 
-const { BaseWallet, Transaction, Wallet } = require("ethers");
+const {
+    BaseWallet,
+    JsonRpcProvider,
+    Transaction,
+    Wallet,
+    parseEther,
+} = require("ethers");
 const { encryptWithPassword } = require("../src/shared/vault");
 const { state, loadState, saveState } = require("../src/shared/state");
 const { onChainSwitch } = require("../src/shared/chainSwitch");
@@ -198,6 +237,11 @@ beforeAll(async () => {
 beforeEach(() => {
     elements.clear();
     mockNode.asked = [];
+    mockNode.balanceWei = {
+        mainnet: parseEther("5"),
+        sepolia: parseEther("5"),
+    };
+    mockNode.tokenUnits = { mainnet: 0n, sepolia: 0n };
     mockNode.broadcast = [];
     mockNode.legacyFees = false;
     global.fetch.mockClear();
@@ -212,7 +256,7 @@ afterEach(() => {
 
 // Show the confirmation screen for 1 of the native token on `networkId`, or
 // for the transfer `changes` makes of it, as Review on the Send screen does,
-// with its fee estimate settled.
+// with its balance read and its fee estimate settled.
 async function review(networkId, changes = {}) {
     await onChainSwitch(networkId);
     await reviewOnActiveNetwork(changes);
@@ -225,7 +269,7 @@ async function reviewOnActiveNetwork(changes = {}) {
             type: "key",
             name: "Wallet 1",
             encryptedSecret,
-            addresses: [{ address: HOLDER, balance: "5.0" }],
+            addresses: [{ address: HOLDER }],
         },
     ];
     state.selectedWallet = 0;
@@ -237,9 +281,7 @@ async function reviewOnActiveNetwork(changes = {}) {
         ensName: null,
         amount: "1",
         token: "ETH",
-        balance: "5.0",
         tokenSymbol: null,
-        tokenBalance: null,
         tokenDecimals: null,
         max: false,
         ...changes,
@@ -323,12 +365,24 @@ function expectNativeTransferOn(networkId) {
     );
 }
 
-// show() estimates the fee and checks the recipient without awaiting either;
+// show() reads the balance and then estimates the fee, and checks the
-// this lets both finish.
+// recipient, without awaiting any of them; this lets all of them finish.
 async function settle() {
     for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
 }
 
+function errors() {
+    return el("confirm-errors").innerHTML;
+}
+
+function shown(id) {
+    return el(id).style.visibility === "visible";
+}
+
+function sendDisabled() {
+    return el("btn-confirm-send").disabled;
+}
+
 async function signAndSend() {
     el("confirm-tx-password").value = PASSWORD;
     await el("btn-confirm-send").handlers.get("click")();
@@ -359,9 +413,10 @@ test("a transfer reviewed after the active network's RPC endpoint was changed in
     await reviewOnActiveNetwork();
 
     expect(mockNode.asked).toEqual([
-        { method: "getFeeData", network: "sepolia", url: newNode },
+        { method: "getBalance", network: "sepolia", url: newNode },
         { method: "getCode", network: "sepolia", url: newNode },
         { method: "getTransactionCount", network: "sepolia", url: newNode },
+        { method: "getFeeData", network: "sepolia", url: newNode },
     ]);
 });
 
@@ -411,7 +466,7 @@ describe.each([
             expectNativeTransferOn(reviewedOn);
             expect(mockNode.asked).toEqual([
                 {
-                    method: "getFeeData",
+                    method: "getBalance",
                     network: reviewedOn,
                     url: ownNode(reviewedOn),
                 },
@@ -425,6 +480,11 @@ describe.each([
                     network: reviewedOn,
                     url: ownNode(reviewedOn),
                 },
+                {
+                    method: "getFeeData",
+                    network: reviewedOn,
+                    url: ownNode(reviewedOn),
+                },
             ]);
             expect(global.fetch.mock.calls.map(([url]) => url)).toEqual([
                 explorerUrl + "/address/" + RECIPIENT,
@@ -472,12 +532,106 @@ describe.each([
             await review(reviewedOn, { amount: "10" });
             await switchReopenAndGoBack(reviewedOn, switchedTo);
 
-            expect(el("confirm-errors").innerHTML).toContain(
+            expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(true);
-                "Insufficient balance. You have 5.0000 " +
+            expect(el("confirm-balance-error").textContent).toBe(
+                "Your " +
                     symbol +
-                    " but are trying to send 10 " +
+                    " balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and" +
-                    symbol +
+                    " send a smaller amount.",
-                    ".",
+            );
+        });
+
+        test("states and checks that network's balance as it is then, which no longer covers the send", async () => {
+            await review(reviewedOn);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
+            mockNode.balanceWei = {
+                [reviewedOn]: parseEther("0.5"),
+                [switchedTo]: parseEther("5"),
+            };
+            await switchReopenAndGoBack(reviewedOn, switchedTo);
+
+            expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe(
+                "0.5000 " + symbol + usdOn(reviewedOn, "$1,000.00"),
+            );
+            expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(true);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+        });
+
+        test("states and checks that network's balance as it is then, which now covers the send, and refuses to send it", async () => {
+            mockNode.balanceWei[reviewedOn] = parseEther("0.5");
+            await review(reviewedOn);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+            mockNode.balanceWei = {
+                [reviewedOn]: parseEther("5"),
+                [switchedTo]: parseEther("0.5"),
+            };
+            await switchReopenAndGoBack(reviewedOn, switchedTo);
+
+            expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe(
+                "5.0000 " + symbol + usdOn(reviewedOn, "$10,000.00"),
+            );
+            expect(errors()).toBe("");
+            expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(false);
+            expect(shown("confirm-amount-fee-error")).toBe(false);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
+
+            await signAndSend();
+
+            expect(signTransaction).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+            expect(mockNode.broadcast).toEqual([]);
+            expect(errors()).toContain(
+                "The active network changed after this transaction was" +
+                    " reviewed, so it was not sent.",
+            );
+        });
+
+        const tokenSend = {
+            token: TOKEN,
+            tokenSymbol: "TOK",
+            tokenDecimals: 6,
+        };
+
+        test("of a token, states and checks that network's token balance as it is then, which no longer covers the send", async () => {
+            mockNode.tokenUnits[reviewedOn] = 10000000n;
+            await review(reviewedOn, tokenSend);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
+            mockNode.tokenUnits = {
+                [reviewedOn]: 500000n,
+                [switchedTo]: 10000000n,
+            };
+            await switchReopenAndGoBack(reviewedOn, switchedTo);
+
+            expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("0.5000 TOK");
+            expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(true);
+            expect(el("confirm-balance-error").textContent).toBe(
+                "Your TOK balance does not cover this amount. Please go back" +
+                    " and send a smaller amount.",
+            );
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+        });
+
+        test("of a token, states and checks that network's token balance as it is then, which now covers the send, and refuses to send it", async () => {
+            await review(reviewedOn, tokenSend);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+            mockNode.tokenUnits = {
+                [reviewedOn]: 10000000n,
+                [switchedTo]: 0n,
+            };
+            await switchReopenAndGoBack(reviewedOn, switchedTo);
+
+            expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("10.0000 TOK");
+            expect(errors()).toBe("");
+            expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(false);
+            expect(shown("confirm-gas-error")).toBe(false);
+            expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
+
+            await signAndSend();
+
+            expect(signTransaction).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+            expect(mockNode.broadcast).toEqual([]);
+            expect(errors()).toContain(
+                "The active network changed after this transaction was" +
+                    " reviewed, so it was not sent.",
             );
         });
 
@@ -492,10 +646,10 @@ describe.each([
         });
 
         test("of an ERC-20 token, links the token contract to that network's explorer and prices the token by that network", async () => {
+            mockNode.tokenUnits[reviewedOn] = 50000000n;
             await review(reviewedOn, {
                 token: TOKEN,
                 tokenSymbol: "USDC",
-                tokenBalance: "50",
                 tokenDecimals: 6,
                 amount: "10",
             });
@@ -536,3 +690,101 @@ test("the send is refused by a signer on another network's node", async () => {
     expect(signTransaction).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(mockNode.broadcast).toEqual([]);
 });
+
+describe("the balance read", () => {
+    test("leaves the balance line Loading... and Sign & Send disabled until it returns", async () => {
+        let answer;
+        const getBalance = jest
+            .spyOn(JsonRpcProvider.prototype, "getBalance")
+            .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+        try {
+            await review("sepolia");
+        } finally {
+            getBalance.mockRestore();
+        }
+        expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("Loading...");
+        expect(el("confirm-fee-amount").textContent).toBe("Estimating...");
+        expect(el("confirm-errors").style.visibility).toBe("hidden");
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(false);
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-read-error")).toBe(false);
+        expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+
+        answer(parseEther("5"));
+        await settle();
+        expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("5.0000 SepoliaETH");
+        expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    // The Chrome suite measures that nothing moves; this checks the message
+    // is already written, only hidden, before the read returns.
+    test("that finds the amount not covered only makes a message written before it visible", async () => {
+        let answer;
+        const getBalance = jest
+            .spyOn(JsonRpcProvider.prototype, "getBalance")
+            .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+        try {
+            await review("sepolia");
+        } finally {
+            getBalance.mockRestore();
+        }
+        const message =
+            "Your SepoliaETH balance does not cover this amount. Please go" +
+            " back and send a smaller amount.";
+        expect(el("confirm-balance-error").textContent).toBe(message);
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(false);
+
+        answer(parseEther("0.5"));
+        await settle();
+        expect(el("confirm-balance-error").textContent).toBe(message);
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(true);
+        expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    // The fee is estimated once the read returns, after the switch, and still
+    // asks the node of the network the screen was drawn for.
+    test("still in flight when Sepolia is chosen in Settings leaves the balance and the fee on mainnet", async () => {
+        let answer;
+        const getBalance = jest
+            .spyOn(JsonRpcProvider.prototype, "getBalance")
+            .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+        try {
+            await review("mainnet");
+        } finally {
+            getBalance.mockRestore();
+        }
+        const feeAskedOn = () =>
+            mockNode.asked
+                .filter((q) => q.method === "getFeeData")
+                .map((q) => q.network);
+        expect(feeAskedOn()).toEqual([]);
+
+        await onChainSwitch("sepolia");
+        answer(parseEther("5"));
+        await settle();
+
+        expect(feeAskedOn()).toEqual(["mainnet"]);
+        expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("5.0000 ETH");
+        // 21000 gas at 10 gwei expected, at 20 gwei reserved.
+        expect(el("confirm-fee-amount").textContent).toBe("~0.0002 ETH");
+        expect(el("confirm-fee-reserve").textContent).toBe(
+            "up to 0.0004 ETH reserved",
+        );
+    });
+
+    test("that fails states the balance as unknown, not zero, and blocks sending", async () => {
+        const getBalance = jest
+            .spyOn(JsonRpcProvider.prototype, "getBalance")
+            .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("the node did not answer"));
+        try {
+            await review("sepolia");
+        } finally {
+            getBalance.mockRestore();
+        }
+        expect(el("confirm-balance").textContent).toBe("unknown (SepoliaETH)");
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-read-error")).toBe(true);
+        expect(shown("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(false);
+        expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
+    });
+});

tests/e2e/network.js

@@ -244,16 +244,21 @@ function latestBlock() {
     };
 }
 
-// keccak("decimals()")[0:4], and the same for symbol() and name().
+// keccak("decimals()")[0:4], and the same for symbol(), name() and
+// balanceOf(address).
 const SELECTOR_DECIMALS = "0x313ce567";
 const SELECTOR_SYMBOL = "0x95d89b41";
 const SELECTOR_NAME = "0x06fdde03";
+const SELECTOR_BALANCE_OF = "0x70a08231";
 
-// Every eth_call still answers with a zero word except decimals(), symbol()
+// Every eth_call still answers with a zero word except decimals(), symbol(),
-// and name() on the stub token. The wallet reads decimals() back at signing
+// name() and balanceOf() on the stub token. The wallet reads decimals() back
-// time to compare with the scale the confirmation screen rendered (issue
+// at signing time to compare with the scale the confirmation screen rendered
-// #305). Adding the token by its contract address reads all three (issue
+// (issue #305). Adding the token by its contract address reads the first three
-// #295); symbol() and name() answer what the explorer reports for it.
+// (issue #295); symbol() and name() answer what the explorer reports for it.
+// The confirmation screen reads balanceOf()
+// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/558), which answers the holding
+// the explorer reports, or zero when no holding is seeded.
 //
 // opts.tokenDecimalsOverride is the lying contract: set it and decimals()
 // answers something other than the value this same fixture reports through
@@ -278,6 +283,9 @@ function ethCallResult(req, opts) {
     if (data.startsWith(SELECTOR_NAME)) {
         return abi.encode(["string"], [tokenObject(opts).name]);
     }
+    if (data.startsWith(SELECTOR_BALANCE_OF) && opts.seedTokenBalance) {
+        return word(tokenBalanceItems(opts)[0].value);
+    }
     return ZERO_WORD;
 }
 
@@ -420,9 +428,10 @@ const HOLD_MAX_MS = 30000;
 
 // Hold a reply open for as long as the test asks: until opts[name] is false.
 //
-// The switch (holdGasEstimate, holdTransactionCount or holdBlockscout) is read
+// The switch (holdBalance, holdGasEstimate, holdTransactionCount or
-// here rather than captured, so a test flips it on the same options object the
+// holdBlockscout) is read here rather than captured, so a test flips it on the
-// route was registered with — the same pattern as seedTokenTransfer. This is
+// same options object the route was registered with — the same pattern as
+// seedTokenTransfer. This is
 // the only way to observe a screen while its request is genuinely in flight;
 // sampling the screen and hoping to win a race against the network would
 // assert nothing on a slow machine.
@@ -557,6 +566,9 @@ async function handleRpc(route, postData, opts, report) {
         report("unstubbed request: POST " + route.request().url());
         return route.abort();
     }
+    if (batch.some((req) => req.method === "eth_getBalance")) {
+        await awaitRelease(opts, "holdBalance", report);
+    }
     if (batch.some((req) => req.method === "eth_estimateGas")) {
         await awaitRelease(opts, "holdGasEstimate", report);
     }
@@ -615,6 +627,8 @@ function traceEnabled(raw) {
  *   fixture expects.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.failGasEstimate]  answer eth_estimateGas with a
  *   node-side refusal.
+ * @param {boolean} [opts.holdBalance]  hold every batch containing an
+ *   eth_getBalance until this is cleared again.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.holdGasEstimate]  hold every batch containing an
  *   eth_estimateGas until this is cleared again.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.holdTransactionCount]  hold every batch containing an

tests/e2e/run.js

@@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ function feeEth(wei) {
 
 // What the confirmation screen is showing right now, read out of the DOM in
 // one pass: whether sending is allowed, which reason it is giving, what the
-// fee block says, and how tall the whole view is.
+// fee block says, how tall the whole view is, and where Sign & Send sits in it.
 async function confirmState(page) {
     return page.evaluate(() => {
         const el = (id) => document.getElementById(id);
@@ -2245,6 +2245,9 @@ async function confirmState(page) {
         };
         return {
             height: el("view-confirm-tx").getBoundingClientRect().height,
+            sendTop:
+                el("btn-confirm-send").getBoundingClientRect().top -
+                el("view-confirm-tx").getBoundingClientRect().top,
             type: el("confirm-type").textContent.trim(),
             balance: el("confirm-balance").textContent.trim(),
             fee: el("confirm-fee-amount").textContent.trim(),
@@ -2253,6 +2256,9 @@ async function confirmState(page) {
             errors: shown("confirm-errors")
                 ? el("confirm-errors").textContent.trim()
                 : "",
+            balanceError: shown("confirm-balance-error")
+                ? el("confirm-balance-error").textContent.trim()
+                : "",
             amountFeeError: shown("confirm-amount-fee-error"),
             gasError: shown("confirm-gas-error"),
             feeUnknownError: shown("confirm-fee-unknown-error"),
@@ -2271,6 +2277,16 @@ async function waitForEstimate(page) {
     );
 }
 
+async function waitForBalance(page) {
+    await page.waitForFunction(
+        () =>
+            document.getElementById("confirm-balance").textContent.trim() !==
+            "Loading...",
+        null,
+        { timeout: 60000 },
+    );
+}
+
 async function backToAddress(page) {
     if (await page.isVisible("#view-confirm-tx")) {
         await page.click("#btn-confirm-back");
@@ -2282,13 +2298,14 @@ async function backToAddress(page) {
     await openAddressDetail(page);
 }
 
-// Drive the popup to the confirmation screen for one send.
+// Drive the popup to the confirmation screen for one send, and return as soon
+// as the screen is shown, its balance read still in flight.
 //
 // It waits for the send screen to be showing `balance`, the fixture's balance
 // as that screen displays it, before filling anything in. Waiting for it —
 // rather than for a refresh to have probably landed — is what keeps every
 // assertion below deterministic after a fixture change.
-async function goToConfirm(page, { token, balance, amount }) {
+async function openConfirm(page, { token, balance, amount }) {
     await backToAddress(page);
     await page.click("#btn-send");
     await visible(page, "#view-send");
@@ -2303,6 +2320,14 @@ async function goToConfirm(page, { token, balance, amount }) {
     await page.fill("#send-amount", amount);
     await page.click("#btn-send-review");
     await visible(page, "#view-confirm-tx");
+}
+
+// The same, returning once the screen has read the balance. It reads it
+// before it estimates the fee, so every state below is read with the balance
+// in place, the pending fee included.
+async function goToConfirm(page, send) {
+    await openConfirm(page, send);
+    await waitForBalance(page);
     await assertAddressesFit(page, "the confirmation screen");
 }
 
@@ -2378,7 +2403,10 @@ test("ConfirmTx blocks sending while the fee estimate is pending (#238)", async
         "the estimate-failed message is shown for an estimate that is merely pending",
     );
     assert(
-        !st.amountFeeError && !st.gasError && st.errors === "",
+        !st.amountFeeError &&
+            !st.gasError &&
+            st.errors === "" &&
+            st.balanceError === "",
         "a balance message is shown before the fee is known",
     );
 });
@@ -2409,6 +2437,7 @@ test("ConfirmTx enables Send once the estimate lands, quoting both numbers (#238
     );
     assert(
         st.errors === "" &&
+            st.balanceError === "" &&
             !st.amountFeeError &&
             !st.gasError &&
             !st.feeUnknownError,
@@ -2475,30 +2504,54 @@ test("ConfirmTx gates on the fee RESERVE, not the displayed estimate (#238)", as
     );
 });
 
-test("ConfirmTx refuses a send that exceeds the balance outright (#238)", async (env) => {
+// The screen is first measured with its balance read held, so the message the
-    await goToConfirm(env.page, {
+// read brings must already hold its space when the read returns (#558).
-        token: "ETH",
+test("ConfirmTx refuses a send that exceeds the balance outright, and nothing moves when the balance arrives (#238)", async (env) => {
-        balance: FUNDED_ETH_TEXT + " ETH",
+    env.routeOpts.holdBalance = true;
-        amount: OVER_BALANCE_AMOUNT,
+    let reading;
-    });
+    try {
+        await openConfirm(env.page, {
+            token: "ETH",
+            balance: FUNDED_ETH_TEXT + " ETH",
+            amount: OVER_BALANCE_AMOUNT,
+        });
+        reading = await confirmState(env.page);
+    } finally {
+        env.routeOpts.holdBalance = false;
+    }
+    assert(
+        reading.balance === "Loading...",
+        "the balance read was not held: " + JSON.stringify(reading.balance),
+    );
+    await waitForBalance(env.page);
     await waitForEstimate(env.page);
 
     const st = await confirmState(env.page);
-    const want =
-        "Insufficient balance. You have " +
-        FUNDED_ETH_TEXT +
-        " ETH but are trying to send " +
-        OVER_BALANCE_AMOUNT +
-        " ETH.";
     assert(
-        st.errors === want,
+        st.balance === FUNDED_ETH_TEXT + " ETH",
-        "wrong over-balance message: " + JSON.stringify(st.errors),
+        "the confirmation screen shows the wrong balance: " +
+            JSON.stringify(st.balance),
+    );
+    const want =
+        "Your ETH balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and" +
+        " send a smaller amount.";
+    assert(
+        st.balanceError === want,
+        "wrong over-balance message: " + JSON.stringify(st.balanceError),
     );
     assert(st.sendDisabled, "Send is enabled for a send that exceeds balance");
     assert(
         !st.amountFeeError,
         "the amount-plus-fee message is shown for an amount that alone exceeds the balance",
     );
+    assert(
+        st.sendTop === reading.sendTop,
+        "Sign & Send moved when the balance read returned: " +
+            reading.sendTop +
+            "px -> " +
+            st.sendTop +
+            "px",
+    );
 });
 
 test("ConfirmTx refuses to send when the fee estimate fails, with its own message (#238)", async (env) => {
@@ -2542,7 +2595,10 @@ test("ConfirmTx refuses to send when the fee estimate fails, with its own messag
             "the estimate-failed message is not shown after a failed estimate",
         );
         assert(
-            !st.amountFeeError && !st.gasError && st.errors === "",
+            !st.amountFeeError &&
+                !st.gasError &&
+                st.errors === "" &&
+                st.balanceError === "",
             "a balance message is shown for an estimate that simply failed",
         );
         assert(
@@ -2633,21 +2689,19 @@ test("ConfirmTx refuses an ERC-20 send that exceeds the token balance (#238)", a
     await waitForEstimate(env.page);
 
     const st = await confirmState(env.page);
-    const want =
-        "Insufficient " +
-        STUB_TOKEN.symbol +
-        " balance. You have " +
-        TOKEN_BALANCE_TEXT +
-        " " +
-        STUB_TOKEN.symbol +
-        " but are trying to send " +
-        OVER_TOKEN_AMOUNT +
-        " " +
-        STUB_TOKEN.symbol +
-        ".";
     assert(
-        st.errors === want,
+        st.balance === TOKEN_BALANCE_TEXT + " " + STUB_TOKEN.symbol,
-        "wrong over-token-balance message: " + JSON.stringify(st.errors),
+        "the confirmation screen shows the wrong token balance: " +
+            JSON.stringify(st.balance),
+    );
+    const want =
+        "Your " +
+        STUB_TOKEN.symbol +
+        " balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and send a" +
+        " smaller amount.";
+    assert(
+        st.balanceError === want,
+        "wrong over-token-balance message: " + JSON.stringify(st.balanceError),
     );
     assert(
         st.sendDisabled,
@@ -2703,9 +2757,9 @@ test("ConfirmTx gates the ERC-20 fee on the RESERVE, with the ERC-20 message (#2
         "the native-ETH over-budget message is shown on an ERC-20 transfer",
     );
     assert(
-        st.errors === "",
+        st.errors === "" && st.balanceError === "",
         "a token-balance message is shown for a transfer the token balance covers: " +
-            JSON.stringify(st.errors),
+            JSON.stringify(st.errors + st.balanceError),
     );
     assert(
         st.height === env.erc20PendingHeight,
@@ -4859,6 +4913,9 @@ async function main() {
         seedTokenBalance: false,
         ethBalanceWei: null,
         failGasEstimate: false,
+        // Whether a JSON-RPC batch asking for a balance is held unanswered:
+        // the confirmation screen's own balance read (#558).
+        holdBalance: false,
         holdGasEstimate: false,
         // Whether a JSON-RPC batch asking for a transaction count is held
         // unanswered: the address scan after creating a wallet (#475).

tests/nativeCurrency.test.js

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ jest.mock("ethers", () => {
         async lookupAddress() {
             return null;
         }
+        // The 1.5 of the native token the address holds on either network.
+        async getBalance() {
+            return 1500000000000000000n;
+        }
         // 10 gwei expected, 20 gwei reserved per gas.
         async getFeeData() {
             return { maxFeePerGas: 20000000000n, gasPrice: 10000000000n };
@@ -339,14 +343,11 @@ describe.each([
 
     test("the insufficient-balance error", async () => {
         await confirmSend("2");
-        expect(
+        expect(text("confirm-balance-error")).toBe(
-            global.document.getElementById("confirm-errors").innerHTML,
+            "Your " +
-        ).toContain(
-            "You have 1.5000 " +
                 symbol +
-                " but are trying to send 2 " +
+                " balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and send" +
-                symbol +
+                " a smaller amount.",
-                ".",
         );
     });
 });

tests/persistedFieldContract.test.js

@@ -781,7 +781,6 @@ const WELL_FORMED_DATA = {
         from: ADDRESS,
         to: ADDRESS,
         amount: "1",
-        balance: "2",
     },
     pendingWait: {
         hash: "0x1",

tests/sendAmountRule.test.js

@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ jest.mock("../src/shared/log", () => ({
     isDebug: () => false,
 }));
 
-// What the confirmation screen asks the node for.
+const { AbiCoder } = require("ethers");
+
+// What the confirmation screen asks the node for. The address holds the 1 ETH
+// and 250 TOK the wallet below records.
 const mockProvider = {
     getFeeData: async () => ({
         maxFeePerGas: 2000000000n,
@@ -32,7 +35,11 @@ const mockProvider = {
     estimateGas: async () => 21000n,
     getCode: async () => "0x",
     getTransactionCount: async () => 1,
-    getBalance: async () => 0n,
+    getBalance: async () => 1000000000000000000n,
+    // The one contract call the screen makes, balanceOf(), answered at the
+    // token's 6 decimal places.
+    call: async () =>
+        AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().encode(["uint256"], [250000000n]),
 };
 
 jest.mock("../src/shared/balances", () => {

tests/sendDisplayFloor.test.js

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 // What the stub node answers. Each test sets what it needs.
 const mockNode = {
     balanceWei: 0n,
+    tokenUnits: 0n,
     feeData: { maxFeePerGas: 1n, gasPrice: 1n },
 };
 
@@ -30,6 +31,13 @@ jest.mock("ethers", () => {
         async getBalance() {
             return mockNode.balanceWei;
         }
+        // balanceOf(), the one contract call these screens make.
+        async call() {
+            return actual.AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().encode(
+                ["uint256"],
+                [mockNode.tokenUnits],
+            );
+        }
         async lookupAddress() {
             return null;
         }
@@ -195,10 +203,19 @@ function errors() {
     return global.document.getElementById("confirm-errors").innerHTML;
 }
 
+// The message for an amount the balance does not cover, while it is shown.
+function balanceError() {
+    const box = global.document.getElementById("confirm-balance-error");
+    return box.style.visibility === "visible" ? box.textContent : "";
+}
+
 // The ETH balance the node reports and the token rows the explorer reports,
-// fetched and stored exactly where the popup stores them.
+// fetched and stored exactly where the popup stores them. The node reports the
+// token holding the explorer does.
 async function refreshWith(balanceWei, tokenItems = []) {
     mockNode.balanceWei = balanceWei;
+    mockNode.tokenUnits =
+        tokenItems.length > 0 ? BigInt(tokenItems[0].value) : 0n;
     mockExplorer.items = tokenItems;
     state.wallets = [{ name: "Wallet 1", addresses: [{ address: HOLDER }] }];
     state.selectedWallet = 0;
@@ -300,9 +317,10 @@ describe("a tracked token holding below 0.000001 never renders as zero", () => {
         await confirmSend("0.0000005", TOKEN);
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("0.0000005 TOK");
         expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(balanceError()).toBe("");
         await confirmSend("0.0000006", TOKEN);
-        expect(errors()).toContain(
+        expect(balanceError()).toContain(
-            "You have 0.0000005 TOK but are trying to send 0.0000006 TOK.",
+            "Your TOK balance does not cover this amount.",
         );
     });
 
@@ -316,6 +334,7 @@ describe("a tracked token holding below 0.000001 never renders as zero", () => {
         await confirmSend("1.5", TOKEN);
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("1.5000 TOK");
         expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(balanceError()).toBe("");
     });
 
     test("with more than 18 decimals and a holding below 10^-18", async () => {
@@ -329,9 +348,8 @@ describe("a tracked token holding below 0.000001 never renders as zero", () => {
         );
         await confirmSend("0.000000000000000001", TOKEN);
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("0.000000000000000000000001 TOK");
-        expect(errors()).toContain(
+        expect(balanceError()).toContain(
-            "You have 0.000000000000000000000001 TOK but are trying to send" +
+            "Your TOK balance does not cover this amount.",
-                " 0.000000000000000001 TOK.",
         );
     });
 });
@@ -356,9 +374,10 @@ describe("an untracked token holding below 0.000001 never renders as zero", () =
         await confirmSend("0.0000005", TOKEN);
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("0.0000005 TOK");
         expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(balanceError()).toBe("");
         await confirmSend("0.0000006", TOKEN);
-        expect(errors()).toContain(
+        expect(balanceError()).toContain(
-            "You have 0.0000005 TOK but are trying to send 0.0000006 TOK.",
+            "Your TOK balance does not cover this amount.",
         );
     });
 });

tests/sendMax.test.js

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 // What the stub node answers, and the signed transactions it was handed.
 const mockNode = {
     balanceWei: 0n,
+    tokenUnits: 0n,
     feeData: null,
     broadcast: [],
 };
@@ -30,6 +31,14 @@ jest.mock("ethers", () => {
         async getBalance() {
             return mockNode.balanceWei;
         }
+        // balanceOf(), the one contract call these screens make before Sign
+        // & Send.
+        async call() {
+            return actual.AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().encode(
+                ["uint256"],
+                [mockNode.tokenUnits],
+            );
+        }
         async lookupAddress() {
             return null;
         }
@@ -187,9 +196,12 @@ function text(id) {
 }
 
 // The ETH balance the node reports and the token rows the explorer reports,
-// fetched and stored exactly where the popup stores them.
+// fetched and stored exactly where the popup stores them. The node reports the
+// token holding the explorer does.
 async function refreshWith(balanceWei, tokenItems = []) {
     mockNode.balanceWei = balanceWei;
+    mockNode.tokenUnits =
+        tokenItems.length > 0 ? BigInt(tokenItems[0].value) : 0n;
     mockExplorer.items = tokenItems;
     state.wallets = [
         {

tests/unknownScaleSend.test.js

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ jest.mock("../src/shared/log", () => ({
 
 // Everything the confirmation screen would reach the network for. The gas
 // estimate is the point: with a usable scale it must succeed, so that a failure
-// in these tests is a failure of the scale and not of the stub.
+// in these tests is a failure of the scale and not of the stub. The address
+// holds the 1 ETH the wallets below record, and `tokenUnits` of the token.
 const mockProvider = {
     getFeeData: async () => ({
         maxFeePerGas: 2000000000n,
@@ -48,7 +49,14 @@ const mockProvider = {
     estimateGas: async () => 21000n,
     getCode: async () => "0x",
     getTransactionCount: async () => 1,
-    getBalance: async () => 0n,
+    getBalance: async () => 1000000000000000000n,
+    tokenUnits: 0n,
+    // The one contract call the screen makes, balanceOf().
+    call: async () =>
+        AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().encode(
+            ["uint256"],
+            [mockProvider.tokenUnits],
+        ),
 };
 
 jest.mock("../src/shared/balances", () => {
@@ -114,7 +122,7 @@ global.document = {
 };
 global.navigator = { clipboard: { writeText() {} } };
 
-const { parseUnits } = require("ethers");
+const { AbiCoder, parseUnits } = require("ethers");
 const { fetchTokenBalances } = require("../src/shared/balances");
 const { debugFetch } = require("../src/shared/log");
 const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
@@ -155,8 +163,9 @@ function row(token = {}, value = FIVE_WETH) {
 }
 
 // Fetch the explorer's rows through the real fetcher and put them exactly where
-// refreshBalances() puts them.
+// refreshBalances() puts them. The node reports the holding the explorer does.
 async function fetchOnto(items) {
+    mockProvider.tokenUnits = BigInt(items[0].value);
     debugFetch.mockImplementation(async () => ({
         ok: true,
         status: 200,
@@ -181,6 +190,7 @@ async function fetchOnto(items) {
 // is from the first. Two addresses is what it takes to reach
 // explorerDecimals()'s disagreement check, which is only reachable across rows.
 async function fetchOntoBoth(itemsA, itemsB) {
+    mockProvider.tokenUnits = BigInt(itemsA[0].value);
     debugFetch.mockImplementation(async () => ({
         ok: true,
         status: 200,
@@ -239,6 +249,12 @@ function errors() {
     return el("confirm-errors").innerHTML;
 }
 
+// The message for an amount the balance does not cover, while it is shown.
+function balanceError() {
+    const box = el("confirm-balance-error");
+    return box.style.visibility === "visible" ? box.textContent : "";
+}
+
 function sendDisabled() {
     return el("btn-confirm-send").disabled;
 }
@@ -270,7 +286,6 @@ describe("the Send screen resolves the scale rather than reading the stored one"
         const txInfo = await reviewSend(WETH, "1.5");
         expect(txInfo.tokenDecimals).toBe(18);
         expect(txInfo.tokenDecimals).not.toBe(balances[0].decimals);
-        expect(txInfo.tokenBalance).toBe("5.0");
     });
 
     test("that scale estimates a fee and leaves Send enabled", async () => {
@@ -307,11 +322,10 @@ describe("the Send screen resolves the scale rather than reading the stored one"
         // No fallback was introduced: resolution answers null here, and the
         // null is what goes forward.
         expect(txInfo.tokenDecimals).toBeNull();
-        expect(txInfo.tokenBalance).toBeNull();
         confirmTx.show(txInfo);
         await settle();
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("unknown (NOVEL)");
-        expect(errors()).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
+        expect(balanceError()).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
         expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
     });
 });
@@ -355,7 +369,8 @@ describe("a scale the explorer's own rows disagree about", () => {
         const txInfo = await reviewSend(NOVEL, "1.5");
         expect(txInfo.tokenDecimals).toBeNull();
         // The regression this closes: null scale alongside a non-null balance.
-        expect(txInfo.tokenBalance).toBeNull();
+        send.updateSendBalance();
+        expect(text("send-balance")).toBe("Current balance: unknown (NOVEL)");
     });
 
     test("so the user is told the balance is unknown, not only that the fee failed", async () => {
@@ -367,8 +382,7 @@ describe("a scale the explorer's own rows disagree about", () => {
         // confirm-fee-unknown-error — "the network fee could not be
         // estimated... please go back and try again" — as the only explanation
         // for a screen that can never proceed.
-        expect(errors()).not.toBe("");
+        expect(balanceError()).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
-        expect(errors()).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("unknown (NOVEL)");
         expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(true);
         // The fee line still reports the estimate as unavailable, because it
@@ -434,31 +448,20 @@ describe("a scale the explorer's own rows disagree about", () => {
         expect(text("send-balance")).toBe("Current balance: 5.0000 NOVEL");
         const txInfo = await reviewSend(NOVEL, "1.5");
         expect(txInfo.tokenDecimals).toBe(6);
-        expect(txInfo.tokenBalance).toBe("5.0");
         confirmTx.show(txInfo);
         await settle();
         expect(text("confirm-balance")).toBe("5.0000 NOVEL");
         expect(errors()).toBe("");
+        expect(balanceError()).toBe("");
         expect(sendDisabled()).toBe(false);
     });
 });
 
 describe("the confirmation screen tells an unknown balance from a zero one", () => {
-    function txInfo(tokenBalance) {
+    // A send of 1.5 NOVEL from an address the node reports none of, with the
-        return {
+    // token's scale `tokenDecimals`, or null for a scale nobody knows.
-            from: HOLDER,
+    async function render(tokenDecimals) {
-            to: RECIPIENT,
+        mockProvider.tokenUnits = 0n;
-            ensName: null,
-            amount: "1.5",
-            token: NOVEL,
-            balance: "1.0",
-            tokenSymbol: "NOVEL",
-            tokenBalance,
-            tokenDecimals: tokenBalance === null ? null : 18,
-        };
-    }
-
-    async function render(tokenBalance) {
         state.wallets = [
             {
                 name: "Wallet 1",
@@ -469,30 +472,40 @@ describe("the confirmation screen tells an unknown balance from a zero one", ()
         ];
         state.selectedWallet = 0;
         state.selectedAddress = 0;
-        confirmTx.show(txInfo(tokenBalance));
+        confirmTx.show({
+            from: HOLDER,
+            to: RECIPIENT,
+            ensName: null,
+            amount: "1.5",
+            token: NOVEL,
+            tokenSymbol: "NOVEL",
+            tokenDecimals,
+        });
         await settle();
-        return { balance: text("confirm-balance"), errors: errors() };
+        return { balance: text("confirm-balance"), message: balanceError() };
     }
 
     test("the balance line states unknown rather than a quantity of zero", async () => {
         const unknown = await render(null);
-        const zero = await render("0.0");
+        const zero = await render(18);
         expect(unknown.balance).not.toBe(zero.balance);
         expect(unknown.balance).toBe("unknown (NOVEL)");
         expect(zero.balance).toBe("0.0000 NOVEL");
     });
 
     // Both hit INSUFFICIENT_TOKEN — an unknown balance is treated as nothing to
-    // spend from, which is the fail-closed side — but "you have 0.0" is a claim
+    // spend from, which is the fail-closed side — but "your balance does not
-    // about the holding, and this one has no established quantity to claim.
+    // cover this amount" is a claim about the holding, and this one has no
-    test("the insufficient-balance message names the reason, not a figure", async () => {
+    // established quantity to claim.
+    test("the insufficient-balance message names the reason, not a shortfall", async () => {
         const unknown = await render(null);
-        const zero = await render("0.0");
+        const zero = await render(18);
-        expect(unknown.errors).not.toBe(zero.errors);
+        expect(unknown.message).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
-        expect(unknown.errors).toContain("This token's balance is unknown");
+        expect(unknown.message).not.toContain("does not cover");
-        expect(unknown.errors).not.toContain("You have");
+        expect(zero.message).toBe(
-        expect(zero.errors).toContain("You have 0.0000 NOVEL");
+            "Your NOVEL balance does not cover this amount. Please go back and" +
-        expect(zero.errors).not.toContain("balance is unknown");
+                " send a smaller amount.",
+        );
     });
 });