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Ethereum Foundation proposes native transaction assertions to enforce transaction outcomes

  • —The Trillion Dollar Security initiative flags blind signing and transaction uncertainty as user-experience risks
  • —Assertions check net changes to balances, storage, code and events, reverting the transaction if a rule fails
  • —The post cites the Bybit and BadgerDAO attacks and a $50.4 million aEthUSDT-to-aEthAAVE swap loss
  • —One proposed approach is EIP-7906 (Transaction Assertions via State Diff Opcode)
Why it matters: The mechanism could close a class of frontend-substitution and outcome-mismatch attacks, reducing user losses when signing transactions.
Source: Ethereum Foundation Blog