Signing a Message
Once a web application has connected to the ME Ethereum wallet, it can prompt users to sign messages. Signing is commonplace amongst many dApps, as it gives application owners the ability to verify ownership of the wallet, without requiring any transaction fees.
Direct Signing
Triggering this directly would look make use of the provider request
function and look like this:
Using Ethers.js
Alternatively, you can make use of the popular web3 javascript library ethers.js to abstract away some of the above complexity. Instead of directly invoking personal_sign
on the provider request
, you can wrap the ME browser provider in a Web3Provider
object from ethers. Doing so allows you to invoke the signMessage
function directly.
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