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
manifest/chrome.json now carries a fixed public key, so the extension id and the chrome.storage.local partition holding the wallet stay stable across checkout moves and re-clones instead of being derived from the absolute path. A release entrypoint produces a self-contained versioned artifact per browser, including the files that sit at dist/ root outside both browser directories. One version source of truth, enforced: the build fails naming the culprit when the two manifests and package.json disagree, and BUILD_COMMIT now marks a dirty tree as dirty. Firefox ships an unsigned XPI; the README states that release Firefox and ESR refuse it, that Developer Edition or Unbranded is required, and that Remove is irreversible except from the recovery phrase, which is asserted by test.
