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SecureSign: Bridging Security and UX in Mobile Web3 through Emulated EIP-6963 Sandboxing

Cryptography and Security 2025-11-19 v1 Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

Mobile Web3 faces catastrophic retention (< 5%) yielding effective acquisition costs of $500 - $1,000 per retained user. Existing solutions force an impossible tradeoff: embedded wallets achieve moderate usability but suffer inherent click-jacking vulnerabilities; app wallets maintain security at the cost of 2 - 3% retention due to download friction and context-switching penalties. We present SecureSign, a PWA-based architecture that adapts desktop browser extension security to mobile via EIP-6963 provider sandboxing. SecureSign isolates dApp execution in iframes within a trusted parent application, achieving click-jacking immunity and transaction integrity while enabling native mobile capabilities (push notifications, home screen installation, zero context-switching). Our drop-in SDK requires no codebase changes for existing Web3 applications. Threat model analysis demonstrates immunity to click-jacking, overlay, and skimming attacks while maintaining wallet interoperability across dApps.

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@article{arxiv.2511.14611,
  title  = {SecureSign: Bridging Security and UX in Mobile Web3 through Emulated EIP-6963 Sandboxing},
  author = {Charles Cheng Ji and Brandon Kong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14611},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 11 figures