fix: never render a nonzero approval amount as zero (closes #322)

Amounts are truncated to four decimal places per README.md's Display
Consistency rule. With the token's true scale resolved, an amount below 0.0001
still printed as 0.0000 — 1 base unit of an 18-decimal token, 500 base units of
an 8-decimal one. On the dApp approval screen, and on the wait/success/error
screens that carry the same string forward as txInfo.amount, a real transfer,
allowance or swap was therefore stated as nothing. A swap's "Min. received" is
the sharper case: a slippage floor shown as 0.0000 states that the swap may
return nothing.

That truncation existed in three separate copies — src/popup/views/approval.js
(the ERC-20 amount, the ETH value, the max fee), src/shared/uniswap.js (the
swap's Amount and Min. received lines, on that same screen) and
src/shared/transactions.js (history and balance lists). They now share
src/shared/amountDisplay.js, which holds the rule and its one exception side by
side: truncateAmount() truncates, truncateAmountNeverZero() truncates with the
nonzero floor.

approval.js and uniswap.js take the floored function, so every amount those
screens display or hand to the confirmation screens obeys the invariant. When
the truncated string would carry no digit from 1 to 9 and the value does, the
amount is extended to its first significant digit: 0.000000000000000001 DAI,
not 0.0000 DAI. It stays in token units, the same unit as the symbol beside it;
the base-unit rendering already on this screen means "the scale is unknown", and
reusing it for a known scale would blur the two. A genuine zero still renders
0.0000, an amount at or above the floor is untouched, and truncation stays
truncation — 0.99999 shows as 0.9999, never rounded up.

transactions.js takes the unfloored function, keeping its current behaviour
exactly: balance lists and history are out of scope by the issue's definition of
done, and the transaction detail view already shows exact precision there. The
code path is shared; the policy is not.

tests/approvalDisplayFloor.test.js drives decodeCalldata() and uniswap.decode()
and asserts both the displayed line and the rawValue the confirmation screens
carry. Against this tree with src/shared/uniswap.js reverted to its previous
formatAmount(), its two new swap cases fail: a 50-base-unit USDT input gives
"0.0000 USDT" where "0.00005 USDT" is expected, and a 1-wei amountOutMin gives
"0.0000 WETH" where "0.000000000000000001 WETH" is expected. A case pinning the
list rule as unfloored is included so the shared module cannot drift into one
policy.

make check green: 42 suites, 848 tests; verify-build 39 cases; check-censored
153 files; eslint and prettier clean in the pinned container.

README.md

@@ -708,6 +708,32 @@ Both are click-copyable. Truncating to 4 decimals in summary views is acceptable
 for scannability, but the detail view must never discard precision — it is the
 one place the user can always use to verify exact details.
 
+**Specific Exception — nonzero floor on the approval screens:** A nonzero amount
+must never render as zero. Truncating to 4 decimals does exactly that to an
+amount below 0.0001 — 1 base unit of an 18-decimal token, 500 base units of an
+8-decimal one — and on the dApp approval screen and the wait/success/error
+screens that carry its amount forward, a real transfer or allowance then reads
+as "nothing is being moved". A swap's `Min. received` is the sharper case: a
+slippage floor shown as `0.0000` states that the swap may return nothing.
+
+On those screens, when the truncated string would contain no digit from 1 to 9
+and the value does, the amount is extended to its first significant digit
+instead: `0.000000000000000001 DAI`, not `0.0000 DAI`. The test is on the whole
+truncated string, integer part included, so `1.00005` still shows as `1.0000` —
+the exception only fires where the entire displayed figure would read as zero. A
+genuine zero still renders `0.0000`, and truncation stays truncation: `0.99999`
+shows as `0.9999`, never rounded up.
+
+The rule and its exception live in `src/shared/amountDisplay.js` as
+`truncateAmount()` and `truncateAmountNeverZero()`. Everything the approval and
+confirmation screens display goes through the floored one — the ERC-20 amount,
+the ETH value and max fee (`src/popup/views/approval.js`), and the swap's
+`Amount` and `Min. received` lines (`src/shared/uniswap.js`). The history and
+balance lists (`src/shared/transactions.js`) use the unfloored one: the
+transaction detail view is the authoritative record and already shows exact
+precision. The 4-decimal rule is unchanged everywhere else, including for
+amounts at or above the floor on the approval screens.
+
 #### Partial USD totals
 
 Prices are fetched for the top 25 tokens only, so an address can hold assets the

TODO.md

@@ -68,6 +68,22 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
   unchanged — the README said "nothing under `dist/` that the build did not
   write", which was broader than that. Documentation only; no executable line
   changed.
+- 2026-08-23: An amount below the 4-decimal display floor no longer reads as
+  zero on the approval screens
+  ([#322](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/322)). With the token's
+  true scale resolved, the 4-decimal truncation still printed a small amount as
+  `0.0000` — 1 base unit of an 18-decimal token, 500 of an 8-decimal one — so a
+  real transfer, allowance or swap was stated as nothing on the one screen whose
+  job is to say what is being authorized, and a swap's `Min. received` claimed
+  the user might receive nothing. Three copies of that truncation existed; they
+  now share `src/shared/amountDisplay.js`. Everything the approval and
+  confirmation screens render (`src/popup/views/approval.js`,
+  `src/shared/uniswap.js`) extends to the first significant digit when the
+  truncated figure would otherwise read as zero, keeping the amount in token
+  units rather than switching to base units mid-line. The history and balance
+  lists (`src/shared/transactions.js`) keep the unfloored rule, which is out of
+  scope by the issue's definition of done. `README.md`'s Display Consistency
+  section records the exception.
 - 2026-08-20: A second extension page can no longer silently delete a wallet
   ([#304](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/304)). `saveState()` wrote
   the entire state blob, and every extension page — the toolbar popup, a dApp

src/popup/views/approval.js

@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ const {
     resolveTokenDecimals,
     unknownDecimalsAmount,
 } = require("../../shared/approvalAmount");
+// Four decimals, with the nonzero floor these screens hold: every amount this
+// view renders — the ERC-20 line, the ETH value, the max fee — and every one
+// it carries forward to the wait/success/error screens goes through it.
+const {
+    truncateAmountNeverZero: formatTxValue,
+} = require("../../shared/amountDisplay");
 const { decryptWithPassword } = require("../../shared/vault");
 const { getSignerForAddress } = require("../../shared/wallet");
 const { walletDefect } = require("../../shared/walletDefects");
@@ -40,13 +46,6 @@ function approvalAddressHtml(address) {
     return renderAddressHtml(address, { title });
 }
 
-function formatTxValue(val) {
-    const parts = val.split(".");
-    if (parts.length === 1) return val + ".0000";
-    const dec = (parts[1] + "0000").slice(0, 4);
-    return parts[0] + "." + dec;
-}
-
 // The amount line for a decoded ERC-20 call. With a known scale it is the
 // token quantity; with `decimals` null it is the base-unit integer with the
 // unknown scale stated, because formatting it with an assumed scale is what

src/shared/amountDisplay.js

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+// The 4-decimal amount rule from README.md's Display Consistency section, and
+// the one exception to it, in one place. Three call sites had grown their own
+// copy of the truncation — the history and balance lists
+// (`src/shared/transactions.js`), the approval screen's ERC-20 amount line
+// (`src/popup/views/approval.js`) and its Uniswap swap detail lines
+// (`src/shared/uniswap.js`) — and a fix applied to one of them left the other
+// two showing a different number for the same value.
+//
+// The two functions below are the two policies, not two implementations of
+// one: summary lists truncate, and the screens that state what is being
+// authorized truncate with a floor. Keeping them adjacent is the point, so a
+// change to the rule cannot reach one screen and miss another.
+
+// Truncate to exactly four decimal places. Truncation, never rounding: an
+// amount must never be displayed as larger than it is, so 0.99999 stays
+// 0.9999.
+function truncateAmount(val) {
+    const parts = val.split(".");
+    if (parts.length === 1) return val + ".0000";
+    return parts[0] + "." + (parts[1] + "0000").slice(0, 4);
+}
+
+// The same rule, plus the invariant the approval and confirmation screens
+// hold: a nonzero amount never renders as zero. Truncating to four decimals
+// does exactly that to an amount below 0.0001 — one base unit of an 18-decimal
+// token, 500 of an 8-decimal one — and a real transfer or allowance then reads
+// as "nothing is being moved" on the screen whose whole job is to say what is
+// being authorized.
+//
+// When the truncated string carries no significant digit and the value does,
+// the amount is extended to its first significant digit instead. It stays in
+// token units, the same unit as the symbol printed beside it. A genuine zero
+// still renders 0.0000, and anything at or above the floor is untouched.
+function truncateAmountNeverZero(val) {
+    const truncated = truncateAmount(val);
+    // Tests the whole truncated string, integer part included: 1.00005 has a
+    // significant digit already and stays 1.0000.
+    if (/[1-9]/.test(truncated)) return truncated;
+    const parts = val.split(".");
+    if (parts.length === 1) return truncated;
+    const sig = parts[1].search(/[1-9]/);
+    if (sig === -1) return truncated;
+    return parts[0] + "." + parts[1].slice(0, sig + 1);
+}
+
+module.exports = { truncateAmount, truncateAmountNeverZero };

src/shared/transactions.js

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ const { log, debugFetch } = require("./log");
 const { TOKEN_BY_ADDRESS } = require("./tokenList");
 const { parseHoldersCount, isLowHolderCount } = require("./holders");
 const { isSpoofedSymbol } = require("./symbolSpoof");
+// The plain 4-decimal rule. The history and balance lists deliberately keep
+// truncation without the approval screens' nonzero floor: the transaction
+// detail view is the authoritative record and already shows exact precision.
+const { truncateAmount: formatTxValue } = require("./amountDisplay");
 
 // Ethereum addresses are case-insensitive: EIP-55 mixed case is a checksum
 // over the address, not part of its identity.  Every address comparison in
@@ -20,13 +24,6 @@ function normalizeAddress(addr) {
     return (addr || "").toLowerCase();
 }
 
-function formatTxValue(val) {
-    const parts = val.split(".");
-    if (parts.length === 1) return val + ".0000";
-    const dec = (parts[1] + "0000").slice(0, 4);
-    return parts[0] + "." + dec;
-}
-
 function parseTx(tx, addrLower) {
     const from = tx.from?.hash || "";
     const to = tx.to?.hash || "";

src/shared/uniswap.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 const { Interface, AbiCoder, getBytes, formatUnits } = require("ethers");
 const { TOKEN_BY_ADDRESS } = require("./tokenList");
+const { truncateAmountNeverZero } = require("./amountDisplay");
 
 const coder = AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder();
 
@@ -34,11 +35,13 @@ const COMMAND_NAMES = {
     0x21: "Execute Sub-Plan",
 };
 
+// The swap's Amount and Min. received lines land on the same approval screen,
+// and Amount is carried to the wait/success/error screens as the ERC-20 line
+// is, so they take the same nonzero floor: a swap of an amount below 0.0001 is
+// not "0.0000", and a slippage floor of one base unit does not read as "you may
+// receive nothing".
 function formatAmount(raw, decimals) {
-    const parts = formatUnits(raw, decimals).split(".");
+    return truncateAmountNeverZero(formatUnits(raw, decimals));
-    if (parts.length === 1) return parts[0] + ".0000";
-    const dec = (parts[1] + "0000").slice(0, 4);
-    return parts[0] + "." + dec;
 }
 
 function tokenInfo(address) {

tests/approvalDisplayFloor.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+// The floor of the approval screen's amount line.
+//
+// Amounts are truncated to four decimal places for scannability (README.md,
+// Display Consistency). With the token's true scale resolved, that truncation
+// can still take a real amount below the floor and print it as `0.0000`: one
+// base unit of an 18-decimal token, or a few hundred of an 8-decimal one. On
+// the one screen whose job is to state what is being authorized, a nonzero
+// transfer or allowance then reads as nothing.
+//
+// The invariant asserted here is narrow: a nonzero amount never renders as
+// zero. The four-decimal rule itself is unchanged, and the string the
+// confirmation screens carry as `txInfo.amount` is the same one, so it is
+// asserted on `rawValue` alongside the displayed line.
+//
+// Both amount paths of that screen are covered: the ERC-20 line decoded by
+// `src/popup/views/approval.js`, and the swap's `Amount` and `Min. received`
+// lines decoded by `src/shared/uniswap.js`.
+
+globalThis.chrome = {
+    storage: { local: { get: async () => ({}), set: async () => {} } },
+};
+
+const { AbiCoder, Interface } = require("ethers");
+const { ERC20_ABI } = require("../src/shared/constants");
+const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
+const { decodeCalldata } = require("../src/popup/views/approval");
+const uniswap = require("../src/shared/uniswap");
+const {
+    truncateAmount,
+    truncateAmountNeverZero,
+} = require("../src/shared/amountDisplay");
+
+const iface = new Interface(ERC20_ABI);
+
+// Bundled tokens, so the scale and the symbol both come from the list.
+const USDC = "0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48"; // 6 decimals
+const WBT = "0x925206b8a707096Ed26ae47C84747fE0bb734F59"; // 8 decimals
+const DAI = "0x6B175474E89094C44Da98b954EedeAC495271d0F"; // 18 decimals
+// Outside the list, so the scale comes from what the user tracks and the line
+// carries no symbol.
+const NOVEL = "0xE2E0000000000000000000000000000000000E2e";
+
+const RECIPIENT = "0xC0FfEE0000000000000000000000000000c0fFEe";
+const SPENDER = "0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111";
+
+// The Uniswap swap lines land on this same approval screen.
+const ROUTER = "0x66a9893cc07d91d95644aedd05d03f95e1dba8af";
+const USDT = "0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7"; // 6 decimals
+const WETH = "0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2"; // 18 decimals
+
+const coder = AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder();
+const routerIface = new Interface([
+    "function execute(bytes commands, bytes[] inputs, uint256 deadline)",
+]);
+
+// A V2_SWAP_EXACT_IN (command 0x08) execute() call: `amountIn` of USDT for at
+// least `amountOutMin` of WETH.
+function swapData(amountIn, amountOutMin) {
+    const input = coder.encode(
+        ["address", "uint256", "uint256", "address[]", "bool"],
+        [RECIPIENT, amountIn, amountOutMin, [USDT, WETH], true],
+    );
+    return routerIface.encodeFunctionData("execute", [
+        "0x08",
+        [input],
+        9999999999n,
+    ]);
+}
+
+function swapDetail(amountIn, amountOutMin, label) {
+    const decoded = uniswap.decode(swapData(amountIn, amountOutMin), ROUTER);
+    return decoded.details.find((d) => d.label === label);
+}
+
+function transferData(amount) {
+    return iface.encodeFunctionData("transfer", [RECIPIENT, amount]);
+}
+
+function approveData(amount) {
+    return iface.encodeFunctionData("approve", [SPENDER, amount]);
+}
+
+// The Amount detail as the approval screen renders it: `value` is the line on
+// the screen, `rawValue` is what is carried to the wait/success/error screens.
+function amount(data, token) {
+    const decoded = decodeCalldata(data, token);
+    return decoded.details.find((d) => d.label === "Amount");
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+    state.trackedTokens = [];
+    state.wallets = [];
+});
+
+describe("a nonzero amount never renders as zero", () => {
+    test("500 base units of a 6-decimal token", () => {
+        const detail = amount(transferData(500n), USDC);
+        expect(detail.value).toBe("0.0005 USDC");
+        expect(detail.rawValue).toBe("0.0005");
+    });
+
+    test("1 base unit of an 18-decimal token", () => {
+        const detail = amount(transferData(1n), DAI);
+        expect(detail.value).toBe("0.000000000000000001 DAI");
+        expect(detail.rawValue).toBe("0.000000000000000001");
+    });
+
+    test("500 base units of an 8-decimal token", () => {
+        expect(amount(transferData(500n), WBT).rawValue).toBe("0.000005");
+    });
+
+    test("an allowance below the floor is not rendered as zero either", () => {
+        expect(amount(approveData(1n), DAI).value).toBe(
+            "0.000000000000000001 DAI",
+        );
+    });
+
+    // The floor holds at any scale, not only the three above: for every
+    // decimals a token can declare, one base unit has to show a digit.
+    test("one base unit shows a significant digit at every scale", () => {
+        for (let decimals = 0; decimals <= 30; decimals++) {
+            state.trackedTokens = [{ address: NOVEL, decimals }];
+            expect(amount(transferData(1n), NOVEL).rawValue).toMatch(/[1-9]/);
+        }
+    });
+});
+
+// The swap decoder formats its own amounts, so the same floor has to hold on
+// the swap lines of the same screen. `Min. received` is the sharper of the
+// two: the slippage floor rendered as `0.0000` states that the swap may return
+// nothing.
+describe("a swap's amounts never render as zero either", () => {
+    test("a swap input below the floor keeps a significant digit", () => {
+        // 50 base units of a 6-decimal token is 0.00005.
+        const detail = swapDetail(50n, 10n ** 15n, "Amount");
+        expect(detail.value).toBe("0.00005 USDT");
+        expect(detail.rawValue).toBe("0.00005");
+    });
+
+    test("a min-received below the floor keeps a significant digit", () => {
+        // 1 wei of an 18-decimal token.
+        expect(swapDetail(10n ** 6n, 1n, "Min. received").value).toBe(
+            "0.000000000000000001 WETH",
+        );
+    });
+
+    test("swap amounts at or above the floor are still truncated", () => {
+        expect(swapDetail(1000000n, 10n ** 15n, "Amount").rawValue).toBe(
+            "1.0000",
+        );
+        expect(
+            swapDetail(1000000n, 999999999999999999n, "Min. received").value,
+        ).toBe("0.9999 WETH");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the four-decimal rule is otherwise unchanged", () => {
+    test("a whole amount keeps exactly four decimals", () => {
+        expect(amount(transferData(5000000000n), USDC).rawValue).toBe(
+            "5000.0000",
+        );
+    });
+
+    test("precision beyond four decimals is still truncated", () => {
+        expect(amount(transferData(1234567890123456789n), DAI).rawValue).toBe(
+            "1.2345",
+        );
+    });
+
+    test("an amount at the floor is not extended", () => {
+        expect(amount(transferData(100000000000000n), DAI).rawValue).toBe(
+            "0.0001",
+        );
+    });
+
+    test("a genuine zero still renders as zero", () => {
+        expect(amount(transferData(0n), DAI).rawValue).toBe("0.0000");
+    });
+
+    // The three truncators now share one module. The floor is a policy of the
+    // approval and confirmation screens only: the history and balance lists
+    // keep plain truncation, because the transaction detail view is the
+    // authoritative record and already shows exact precision.
+    test("the list rule stays unfloored", () => {
+        expect(truncateAmount("0.000000000000000001")).toBe("0.0000");
+        expect(truncateAmountNeverZero("0.000000000000000001")).toBe(
+            "0.000000000000000001",
+        );
+    });
+});