I’m glad that Discourse notified me of this thread as I was about to write a new one.
I think this a great use-case where automated signing is harmless and improves the Web3 UX significantly for both users and developers.
I discussed this with a few people at ETH Denver (@rouven @jamesyoung @michaelsena @oed) and I’m planning to introduce this to the WalletConnect protocol sooner than later. However I want WalletConnect to embrace as many standards as possible working together with other Web3 providers like Metamask to reduce the duplication of efforts.
My proposal is that Wallets should provide this authentication signature every time they expose new accounts as part of the JSON-RPC spec either as an updated eth_accounts or part of the new scope of wallet_ prefixed methods.
Whenever a Dapp requests access to the User’s accounts, the Wallet should sign a standard authentication message that Dapps could verify themselves. I think this standard shouldn’t be that extensive and ideally we could start pushing for adoption asap.
PS - Can we move this thread to the Wallet Ring? Feels more appropriate to discuss with those participants