Displaying raw, ABI-encoded calldata has been a drag on web3 user experience for years. It should be obvious that most users cannot read blocks of hex data; I wrote about this in early 2021 when GridPlus introduced a new contract readability feature. We have recently replaced this with a “just-in-time” calldata decoder, which takes advantage of self-validation in the ABI spec. With this new approach, transaction requests may include “decoder data”, which is used to mark down the calldata in a...

Displaying raw, ABI-encoded calldata has been a drag on web3 user experience for years. It should be obvious that most users cannot read blocks of hex data; I wrote about this in early 2021 when GridPlus introduced a new contract readability feature. We have recently replaced this with a “just-in-time” calldata decoder, which takes advantage of self-validation in the ABI spec. With this new approach, transaction requests may include “decoder data”, which is used to mark down the calldata in a...