Every chipnet wallet in the picker read "can't pair" with the reason
nowhere on screen: the explanatory note only rendered when NOTHING could
pair, so one working mainnet wallet hid it entirely. The cause now rides
on the row itself ("can't pair (WIF import)") and the note appears
whenever any wallet is blocked. A single private key has no chain code,
so there is no xpub for the handshake to send — the text now says that
and points at the two ways out.
Seed-imported wallets stored the full leaf path (m/44'/1'/0'/0/0) in
accountPath, because that is what derived the one address the strip
shows. WizardConnect was handed that as the BIP44 *account* node and
would derive m/44'/1'/0'/0/0/<branch>/<i>: a tree the user holds no keys
in. Pairing looked healthy and every sign request failed with "no path
for input". Same class as the 0.9.7 chipnet mismatch, one level down.
A dapp drops its pairing code from the DOM once connected, so the
commonest empty scan is a page that is already paired. Sending that user
to "open the Connect dialog" points at a dialog the dapp will not show
again; the message now names the existing pairing instead.
A chipnet BCH wallet derives from m/44'/1'/0', but the WizardConnect
registration fell back to a hardcoded m/44'/145'/0' whenever the entry
had no explicit accountPath — which is the normal case for a wallet
created through the UI. Mainnet's default happens to be that same
literal, so only chipnet was affected.
The consequence was worse than a failed pairing. Pairing SUCCEEDED, the
handshake carried xpubs for an unrelated key tree, and the dapp then
derived addresses this wallet does not own:
wallet's real chipnet address : bchtest:qpezx8qkwpjd4e6pd5aang0ve6fctpjvg5ckp2lwu7
address from the WC xpub : bchtest:qzvpe3w9rqnszk6mntnef6zv6v94zmfvpc49qkxml4
So the dapp saw an empty stranger's wallet, and anything it built spent
inputs the wallet could not match — signing would fail with "no path for
input". Silent, and only reachable on testnet.
Both registration sites (vault-derived and imported) now take the path
from adapter.snapshot().accountPath, which is by construction the tree
the wallet actually derives its addresses from.
Two wrong turns worth recording. defaultAccountPathFor() takes the coin
CONFIG object, not a chain string, so passing entry.chain returned null
and would have stopped WizardConnect registering at all — strictly worse
than the bug being fixed. chainMeta().defaultAccountPath was no better:
BCH has no coinType in COINS, so it is null for every BCH network. The
adapter is the only component that resolves this correctly, which is why
it is now the source.
Mounting an imported TRX/ETH/SOL wallet read the optional custom RPC as
String(stored || undefined), so a wallet with no override got the literal
"undefined" as its server: every history and token fetch went to
"undefined/v1/accounts/…" and the panel showed "undefined" under the
balance. Only a real https URL overrides the network default now, and the
adapter itself rejects anything that does not look like one.
Completes the three detection paths. The injected provider shipped in
0.8.8; these two needed host support, because nothing in the add-on API
could reach the active tab's content (captureTab is pixels, not DOM).
wiz:// links (main.js)
A click on a wiz:// anchor is intercepted in will-navigate and in the
window-open handler (target="_blank" lands there instead), and routed
to the wallet with the offering page's origin attached, so the
approval names the real site. The tab never navigates. This needs
nothing from the dapp beyond rendering the URI as a link, so it works
for third-party dapps that will never adopt a Silent Mode API.
scan-page capability (addons-host.js + main.js)
New capability backing api.scanActiveTabForUris({scheme, limit}).
Deliberately NOT a "read the page" API: the host runs the match and
returns only the URIs found, so an add-on holding this still cannot
see page text, markup or form values. It sits well below page-inject
on the trust ladder — it learns that a page offers a wiz:// code and
nothing else. Scheme is validated against [a-z][a-z0-9+.-]* and the
result count is capped.
The matcher also accepts WizardConnect's QR-alphanumeric spelling
(WIZ://%3FP%3D…), which is frequently the only form present when a
dapp renders its pairing code as a QR, and decodes it. Verified
against the SDK: decodeKeyExchangeURI accepts standard, QR-raw and
QR-decoded alike.
Regex sources are built host-side and passed as JSON rather than
assembled inside the injected string — hand-escaping backslashes and
quotes through two levels of literal was both wrong on the first
attempt and unreviewable.
Aegis
Declares scan-page, adds the wcScanPage handler and a "Scan page"
button next to Connect. A scan fills the URI field and stops there
rather than pairing outright: the user still chooses which wallet
signs and still presses Connect, because a scan that silently paired
would carry far more consequence than the button implies. Older hosts
without the capability get a clear "update Theseus" message instead of
a dead button.
Wallet strip:
- Clicking a coin opens that coin's page (addresses, price, totals, back
and close) instead of only flipping the selection and leaving the list
sitting there. The page already existed but was reachable only via the
small count chip.
- The per-coin second action was a gear that selected the wallet and
opened the global Settings tab — the same destination for every coin,
so it read as a per-coin control that wasn't one. It is now Remove,
behind a confirm, with the default/legacy wallet showing a lock
instead since it gates legacy funds.
- Each address in the drilldown can expand to show what THAT address
holds: TRC20/SPL via the adapter's tokens, BCH CashTokens via
tokenBalances. walletSummary now carries both per wallet, so the view
no longer has to borrow the selected wallet's assets.
WizardConnect — the Connect pane was effectively unusable:
- The locked-vault branch told the user to unlock and gave them nothing
to click. It is reachable without the lock screen ever appearing,
because a mounted imported wallet makes overallPhase read "ready".
It now carries the same unlock form the lock screen uses.
- Imported BCH wallets were never registered with the WC manager —
startForWallet ran only in the vault-derived mount branch. They mount
as ready, so they appeared in the "Sign with" picker and then failed
on pair. They now register from their stored seed. WC derives a child
key tree, so single-key (WIF) imports genuinely cannot pair; those are
disabled in the picker with the reason, rather than failing on click.
- Adds window.wizardconnect so a dapp can hand over the wiz:// URI it
already generated instead of making the user copy it between tabs.
The protocol is Nostr-relay pairing designed for phone-scans-QR, and
the SDK has no in-page discovery at all, so this is our own surface:
connect() + isReady(), plus a wizardconnect:announceProvider event
shaped like EIP-6963 so several WC wallets can coexist. Pairing always
goes through the approval modal; the URI is validated before any UI
shows, and the wallet never reads the page to find one.
Settings grew tall enough that the user had to scroll past a dozen
cards to reach Prices, Sites or About. Split it into six named
sections (Security, Session, Wallet, Prices, Sites, About) with a
chip nav row at the top; only one section is visible at a time and
the choice persists across restarts.
Adds an About card that names the wallet, the aegis.x front-door
site and the silentmode.st umbrella, so support triage has a
one-click way to reach either from within the panel.
Includes the accumulated 0.7.x-0.8.1 wallet work that was already
shipping on OTA (CashTokens/BCMR, imported-wallet spend, siascan
integration, consolidate, currency picker, footer update chip).
Theseus core:
- addons-host: manifest.category ("plugin") propagates through snapshot(); new
addon API surface checkAndStageSelfUpdate() + restartApp() so a plug-in
can offer in-panel "update now → restart to apply" without pushing the
user to Settings.
- main.js: wires the two new hooks into the AddonHost constructor.
- settings.html: Extensions listing filters out category==="plugin"; those
add-ons live in Plug-ins instead, single source of truth.
Aegis 0.6.31:
- BTC picker trimmed to Signet only; testnet3 hidden (adapter kept so any
existing wallet still loads).
- Wallet strip groups by chain, not chain:network; ticker gets a ▾ chevron
and a dropdown listing every subnetwork with its own totals. Mainnet
reads as the plain ticker; testnets carry a small Chipnet/Signet/Sepolia
pill inline.
- Per-unit price sits directly under the ticker; amount + fiat mirror on
the right — one glance covers name/price/holding/value.
- + Add and ⋯ More promoted from the strip into the header's action row,
next to the new ✎ chip (was the redundant top ⋯). Duplicate "Manage
current wallet" entry removed from the More menu.
- Footer update chip is a two-step flow via the new API: stage → restart.
Falls back to opening Settings on any Theseus that lacks the hooks.
- Manifest declares "category": "plugin".
Users saw a blank window with a white strip across the top for seconds
on launch. Root cause: every part of startup, including session restore,
waited for chrome.html's did-finish-load. That event also waits for the
page's subresources, and the bookmarks bar loads its favicons over
bns:// — a BNS lookup plus a network fetch each — so a slow link held the
whole boot. On top of that, seven hidden overlay renderers, every restored
tab, the BNS index build and three network fetches all started in the
same tick and stalled the main thread ~1 s while the toolbar tried to
paint.
- Continue boot at chrome.html's dom-ready (toolbar scripts have run, IPC
listeners exist) instead of did-finish-load; 8 s fallback timer.
- Window and chrome view get the toolbar's --bg for the active theme so
the pre-paint frame is never white.
- Overlay pages (site info, engine picker, downloads, suggestions,
password fill, link status, approval) load 250 ms after the toolbar or
on first use; the approval modal awaits its page so a dapp request
can't hang.
- Session restore is staggered: active tab first, then one background
tab per 150 ms slotted into its saved strip position. Session file v2
records the active index; v1 arrays still load (active = last, as the
old loop effectively did).
- AddonHost gains api.whenUiReady(); Aegis 0.6.2 defers its heavy
dependency loading (noble precompute, bitcoinjs, libauth, WizardConnect)
behind it.
- BNS snapshot warm-up still starts right after createWindow (bookmark
favicons need it); Sia refresh, update check and home-card fetch move
to the post-paint phase.
Measured on a clone of the real profile with nine restored tabs: toolbar
usable at ~0.7 s instead of ~1.5 s, main-thread stall during toolbar load
down from ~1.1 s to ~0.2 s.
Aegis Wallet 0.4.4 → 0.6.1:
- Vault lifecycle from the wallet gate. The locked / not-yet-created states
now show a master-password form (with optional BIP39 mnemonic on setup)
instead of redirecting users to Settings › Passwords. New
api.vault.lifecycle {status, setup, unlock, lock} in addons-host, gated by
the existing "vault-derive" capability. api.openSettings(section) also
added; settings.html honours a #section hash on open.
- Imported BCH wallets (design M.1a, read-only). Paste a mnemonic + BIP44
path or a WIF; the cashaddr is derived in the add-on, the signer material
goes to a separate wallet-imports.enc via api.vault.imports {list, add,
remove, signer}. Argus password-vault gains createImports / unlockImports /
saveImports with its own KDF salt so the imports key is disjoint from the
passwords key. lib/chain-bch-imported.js is a single-address Electrum
adapter; spend support is deferred to M.1b.
- Opt-in USD prices via CoinGecko (lib/prices.js), off by default, persisted
in add-on storage. Fiat lines under balances, in the wallet picker, and a
portfolio total when 2+ wallets are open. Settings tab is now reachable
while the vault is locked so the toggle is always available.
- WizardConnect wallet-side pairing for BCH wallets (lib/wc.js, lib/wc-sign.js).
@wizardconnect/{core,wallet} are loaded dynamically via api.import to stay
on the right side of LGPL §4d. Sign requests go through approvalModal and
are restricted to P2PKH inputs with SIGHASH_ALL|FORKID|UTXOS.
- DGB adapter load is now soft-fail: when Aegis runs from userData/addons the
bundled ESM can't resolve peer deps, so DGB becomes unavailable instead of
taking the whole add-on down.
The toolbar dock still showed the 🛡 emoji even after chrome.html learned
to render data-URI icons — because registerSidebarPanel({icon}) is the
per-panel icon that overrides manifest.icon, and Aegis was passing "🛡"
verbatim. Dropping the override lets addons-host's `icon = manifest.icon`
default kick in, so the dock button pulls the branded aegis.x/brand
shield the manifest now advertises.
Version bumped 0.4.1 → 0.4.3 to force seedBundledAddons to reseed the
new index.js on next launch.
Setup 5d15508bba929f1f074c052ac933863eadf6eb8e56984ebd5a1af75e80626643
Portable a5d346b97f5a13d85fa3bd301a72075ddb82fe636d7b1a51840ffd5a16d879f4
Bundled since 0.3.27:
32d4b75 - Aegis (bchwallet) gains its own update card in Settings >
General beside Ariadne. Check for updates hits the same signed OTA
endpoint the boot timer uses; Restart to apply appears when a signed
newer version is staged. Uses the existing addons-check-updates + a
new app-restart IPC. New Aegis versions ship without a Theseus release.
32d4b75 (same commit) - DevTools (F12 / Ctrl+Shift+I) opens docked to
the right of the tab (mode: 'right') instead of a detached window.
Matches stock Chrome. Users who prefer detached can drag out via the
DevTools own toolbar.
b71c925 - Search-engine favicons in Settings > Search now use Google's
/s2/favicons service — DuckDuckGo's ip3 source returned 404 for enough
hosts (Brave, Bing, Yandex, etc.) that half the list was falling
through to the emoji placeholder.
Deployed. Verified LIVE 0.3.28.
2026-09-08 18:17:25 +02:00
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