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.