The Ethereum Foundation security discussions this week made me rethink my wallet setup

Been thinking a lot about the Ethereum Foundation security conversations this week and I realized my whole mental model around wallet safety was still kinda outdated.

I always thought good security mostly meant keeping keys offline, backing up the seed phrase properly and avoiding obvious phishing attempts. But now it feels like transaction interpretation itself is becoming just as important.

Most people aren’t losing funds because cryptography failed. They’re losing funds because they approved something they didn’t fully understand while interacting with increasingly complicated protocols.

Makes me wonder if blind signing eventually becomes viewed as completely unacceptable UX in crypto.

EDIT: reading the replies made me realize how many people changed their behavior after the recent exploit cycles. for me the biggest shift was slowing down approvals and using a wallet where transaction context is actually readable. switched to ERA Wallet a while back and it reduced a lot of the low-level stress i had around signing DeFi transactions.