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fix(walletconnect): sign in to dApps with hardware wallets - #12737

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WalletConnect sign-in (SIWE) from dApps such as venice.ai failed on every non-native wallet. Connecting ShapeShift to Venice threw data is not an hex string, and once that was fixed KeepKey and Trezor One still could not sign in.

Message signing

  • EvmBaseAdapter.signMessage now hex encodes utf8 messages. Every hdwallet other than native rejects a non-hex message, and the WalletConnect session_authenticate (one-click auth) handler passed the SIWE message as plain text.
  • hdwallet-trezor passes hex: true to TrezorConnect so the message bytes are signed rather than the hex text. It also throws when no signature comes back, instead of returning 0xundefined.
  • The one-click auth signer identity (iss) is built with an EIP-55 checksummed address, as EIP-4361 requires. It was lowercase before.

KeepKey and Trezor

  • KeepKey and Trezor One firmware cap EthereumSignMessage.message at 1024 bytes. The one-click auth message embeds the session permissions (ReCaps) and was 2055 bytes for Venice, so these devices cannot sign it.
  • For KeepKey and Trezor wallets we no longer register the session_authenticate listener. The sign client then handles the dApp's fallback session proposal, and the dApp follows up with a regular personal_sign sign-in message that fits.
  • The gate covers all Trezor models. Only the Model One (legacy firmware) has the cap as far as the firmware source shows, but no newer model was available to test one-click auth on.

Session approval

  • Approved session namespaces now include chains. AppKit's WalletConnect connector reads session.namespaces.eip155.chains and falls back to mainnet without it, which left Base-only Venice on "This app doesn't support your current network".

Hardening

  • Unsupported session requests now get an error response instead of being dropped. The sign client holds back later requests until the current one is answered.
  • A failed session auth approval now rejects the request (with the error message, like the cosmos and bitcoin handlers) and closes the modal, rather than leaving the dApp waiting.
  • ChainAdapterError stringifies non-Error objects, so a thrown device failure event reads as its contents instead of [object Object].

Issue (if applicable)

closes #12729

Fixes SS-5788

Risk

Medium. No transaction building or broadcasting changes, but this touches message signing for all EVM wallets and the WalletConnect dApp session approval for every dApp.

What protocols, transaction types, wallets or contract interactions might be affected by this PR?

  • EVM message signing (personal_sign / eth_sign / SIWE) for all wallets via EvmBaseAdapter.signMessage. Hex messages pass through unchanged.
  • Trezor message signing.
  • WalletConnect to dApps: session proposals (approved namespaces now carry chains), session authenticate (skipped for KeepKey and Trezor), and requests for unsupported methods.

Testing

Engineering

Tested manually against venice.ai (token page, connect with WalletConnect, paste the URI into ShapeShift):

  • KeepKey: connects through the session proposal, then signs the personal_sign sign-in message.
  • Trezor Model One: same as KeepKey.
  • Ledger: one-click auth, signs the long message.
  • Native: one-click auth completes and the session is established. Venice then asks for a second, regular sign-in message. In a local simulation our signed result passes WalletConnect's own dApp-side validation and parses as a valid SIWE message, so this looks like Venice not accepting one-click logins, but that is not confirmed.

Not tested: newer Trezor models, other dApps, other wallets (MetaMask, Phantom, WalletConnect, GridPlus etc.).

Unit tests added for the hex encoding in signMessage, the chains list in createApprovalNamespaces, the checksummed iss, and ChainAdapterError with non-Error objects. The mocked Trezor ethereumSignMessage call in hdwallet-integration is updated for hex: true. Lint and type-check were not run locally.

Operations

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  1. Open https://venice.ai, connect a wallet and choose WalletConnect, copy the URI.
  2. In ShapeShift, open the WalletConnect dApps menu and paste the URI.
  3. Approve the request and sign the sign-in message.
  4. Venice should show the wallet as connected and signed in. Repeat with a KeepKey or Trezor and with a native or Ledger wallet.
  5. Regression check: connect to another WalletConnect dApp and sign a message.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Message signing now handles plain text and hexadecimal input consistently across supported wallets.
    • Missing signatures and unexpected error values now provide clearer error details.
    • WalletConnect authentication failures are reported as rejected requests, and unsupported requests receive an explicit response.
  • Improvements

    • Approved WalletConnect account and chain details preserve their order and avoid duplicate chains.
    • Session authentication is skipped for KeepKey and Trezor wallets.
    • Authentication issuer addresses are now checksummed.

WalletConnect sign-in (SIWE) from dApps such as Venice failed on every
non-native wallet.

- hex encode utf8 messages in EvmBaseAdapter.signMessage, hdwallets
  other than native reject non-hex messages
- pass hex: true to TrezorConnect so the message bytes are signed
  rather than the hex text, and throw when no signature is returned
- skip session_authenticate for KeepKey and Trezor, their 1024 byte
  message cap is below the SIWE + ReCaps message size, so the dApp's
  fallback session proposal is used instead
- include chains in approved session namespaces, AppKit falls back to
  mainnet without it
- respond to unsupported session requests instead of dropping them,
  the sign client holds back later requests until each is answered
- reject the session auth request when approval fails
- stringify non-Error objects in ChainAdapterError

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The changes update error formatting and EVM and Trezor message signing. They also update WalletConnect namespace construction, session-authentication issuer formatting, wallet support checks, and approval failure handling.

Changes

Error serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialize unknown error values
packages/chain-adapters/src/error/ErrorHandler.ts, packages/chain-adapters/src/error/ErrorHandler.test.ts
ChainAdapterError now uses JSON serialization for unknown values when possible, with string conversion as a fallback. Tests cover serialized messages and preserved metadata.

Message signing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize messages and handle Trezor responses
packages/chain-adapters/src/evm/EvmBaseAdapter.ts, packages/chain-adapters/src/evm/ethereum/EthereumChainAdapter.test.ts, packages/hdwallet-trezor/src/ethereum.ts, packages/hdwallet-integration/src/wallets/trezor.ts
EvmBaseAdapter.signMessage converts non-hex messages to hex and preserves hex messages. Tests cover both inputs. Trezor signing requests hex and throws if the response has no signature.

WalletConnect dapp handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Derive approved namespace chains
src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/utils/createApprovalNamespaces.ts, src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/utils/createApprovalNamespaces.test.ts
createApprovalNamespaces derives deduplicated chains from approved accounts. A test checks the returned account and chain order.
Gate session-authentication support
src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/eventsManager/useWalletConnectEventsManager.ts
The event manager skips session-authentication listening for KeepKey and Trezor wallets. It responds to unsupported requests with an UNSUPPORTED_METHODS error.
Build session-authentication issuer
src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/utils/SessionAuthRequestHandlerUtil.ts, src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/utils/SessionAuthRequestHandlerUtil.test.ts, src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/modals/SessionAuthenticateConfirmation.tsx
getSessionAuthIss parses a CAIP AccountId and returns a did:pkh issuer with a checksummed address. The approval request and confirmation message use this helper. A test checks the resulting issuer.
Reject failed session-authentication approval
src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/WalletConnectModalManager.tsx
Approval failures are logged and rejected with USER_REJECTED and the error message, or Unknown error when no message is available. Failures to send the rejection are logged.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The change adjusts WalletConnect sign-in for hardware wallets and message signing. No merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied review context, though newer Trezor models and other dApps were not tested.

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kaladinlight and others added 2 commits October 6, 2026 14:30
…r paths

- build the session_authenticate iss with an EIP-55 checksummed
  address, as EIP-4361 requires
- update the mocked Trezor ethereumSignMessage call for hex: true so
  the hdwallet integration test matches the request
- fall back to String when a thrown object can't be serialized in
  ChainAdapterError
- close the session auth modal even when rejecting the request fails,
  and read the error message without an unchecked cast

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
They only exercised JSON.stringify and viem's getAddress.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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