Stored state had no version and no structural validation, so a corrupt blob produced a completely blank popup with no message and no recovery control, and made every dApp RPC call from every page answer a generic -32603. There was no reset or wipe control anywhere in the UI.
saveState() now stamps a schema version and loadState() validates the shape. A version it does not understand, or a wallets array it cannot parse, lands on a recovery screen that names the problem, offers the stored record verbatim for export, and offers a destructive reset behind a typed confirmation. Unversioned but valid state -- which every existing install has -- migrates in place and keeps working; it is never shown a wipe prompt. A dApp call against unusable state answers -32007, which EIP-1474 leaves unassigned, rather than -32603. networkById() refuses an unknown id loudly instead of returning mainnet, and networkId is validated so a corrupt value cannot be used as an object key.
Fields the gate does not refuse are floored by type, container and entries both: a malformed trackedTokens or tokenBalances entry is dropped rather than dereferenced. Verified by an independent sweep of 1152 corrupt blobs producing no blank popup, with the same harness showing 9 blanks against the previous revision.
Five defects, one of which destroyed every wallet, came from src/background reading and writing the module-level state singleton the MV3 worker never populates, which silently served DEFAULT_STATE. Each point fix created the next defect. The background now has its own per-call getState() and a queued read-modify-write updateState(); the singleton is unreachable from it, and an unpopulated read throws instead of serving defaults.
The prohibition is enforced by the build, not by review: build.js asserts over esbuild's own metafile that no forbidden module is an input of a background bundle, so every specifier syntax esbuild resolves is covered, and both halves of the table are checked for rot -- a stale key, a stale module, an empty list, or an unlisted entry point under src/background/ all fail the build. The ESLint rule remains as fast local feedback and reads the same shared table. Known bounds are documented where the table lives.
Also closes#320: getProvider() now requires a validated network id, so a cold worker no longer prepares a non-mainnet dApp transaction for mainnet and gets refused by the wallet's own verifier. backgroundRefresh() no longer mutates address objects across a network round trip, the broadcast path takes its endpoint and chain id from one snapshot, and eight test storage stubs now structured-clone on get as the real chrome.storage.local does.
closes#320
Verification compared the signed artifact against the dApp's request object.
For every field the dApp omitted -- normally nonce, gas limit and all the fee
fields, since the popup filled them in -- the number the user actually read on
screen was verified by nothing, and only absolute ceilings stood behind it.
The transaction is now populated in the background before the approval window
opens, and that populated object is both what the popup displays and what the
signed artifact is verified against. Every consequential field becomes an
equality comparison; the ceilings remain as a backstop. Population failing
means no approval and no window, and the error goes to the requesting page --
earlier than before, where the same estimate failed after the password had been
typed.
The account is pinned too: `from` is compared against the address named at
approval time rather than whichever address is active at signing, so switching
accounts mid-flow refuses instead of signing from an account the approval did
not name. The message-signing path had the same defect and gets the same fix.
Nonce selection moves earlier as a consequence; the concurrent-approval case
that follows from it is tracked at #271.
approvalVerify now compares every field of the signed artifact against the
approval, not a subset. Transaction types are allowlisted to 0/1/2 and any
field the module does not check is refused outright, so a future transaction
type cannot smuggle consequential fields past verification -- an EIP-7702
type-4 artifact that delegates the signer's own EOA while matching every
displayed field was accepted before this change. The serialized bytes handed
to broadcastTransaction are compared against the parsed artifact, so the
guarantee covers the bytes that actually go to the node.
Signing failures in the popup are retryable again. To make that safe, an
approval is claimed synchronously before the first await and every path that
resolves or removes one goes through a single chokepoint that refuses a claimed
approval. Without it, closing the approval window, switching the active address
or a late reject would report "User rejected the request." to the dApp while
the broadcast completed -- the user then redoes the transfer at a fresh nonce
and it sends twice.
Failure copy distinguishes the stage reached, so a user is never told to start
again from the site when the first attempt may already have reached the network.
