D.S.I - Decentralized Swarm Investigation, an exposure scanner for hot wallets: a small open-source command-line tool that shows, for any list of Ethereum mainnet wallets, everything that passes to an attacker who gets an EIP-7702 delegation onto one of them (or its key). Background: on 2026-10-29 the wallet 0x28C6c06298d514Db089934071355E5743bf21d60 (Binance 14 on Etherscan) carried an EIP-7702 delegation to 0x63e842b054bd624a465454d533c33f573e9c6fae from block 26300753 to block 26301895; through it the caller also emptied 0xEe7aE85f2Fe2239E27D9c1E23fFFe168D63b4055, a Circle SingleOwnerMSCA smart account whose getNativeOwner() is that wallet. The tool finds such inherited exposure before an incident.

What it reports per wallet, at a given block (default: latest):

  1. Delegation: eth_getCode; 0xef0100 followed by 20 bytes is an EIP-7702 delegation to that address, other code is a contract, 0x is a plain account.
  2. Owned contracts and accounts: contracts whose owner or native owner is the wallet. Find candidates through indexed event topics naming the wallet: OwnershipTransferred(address indexed previousOwner, address indexed newOwner) with newOwner = wallet; the ownership events of Circle's SingleOwnerMSCA and of ERC-6900 single-owner plugins (look them up in circlefin/buidl-wallet-contracts); RoleGranted(bytes32 indexed role, address indexed account, address indexed sender) with account = wallet; Safe owners from the Safe Transaction Service (owners//safes). Confirm every candidate at the block with view calls (owner(), getNativeOwner(), isOwner(wallet), hasRole(role, wallet)) and drop those the wallet no longer controls. An optional --candidates file adds contracts to confirm the same way.
  3. Allowances: Approval(address indexed owner, address indexed spender, uint256 value) logs with owner = wallet give (token, spender) pairs; read allowance(owner, spender) of each pair at the block and keep those above zero, marking unlimited ones.
  4. Value at stake: ETH and ERC-20 balances of every confirmed owned account, and the wallet's own balance of each token it approved.

Rules: history comes from a one-time chunked eth_getLogs backfill stored on disk with a watermark (resume and append, never a full rescan) or from a keyless explorer API (Blockscout v2) when it answers; current state only through Multicall3 0xcA11bde05977b3631167028862bE2a173976CA11 aggregate3 batches; RPC URLs from a config file or env, with a rotation list of public endpoints and an archive endpoint for historical blocks; a timeout on every request; no private keys, no signing, no transactions, no required API keys. Output: report.json (one object per wallet) and report.md (one table per wallet: delegation, owned accounts with balances, allowances, value at stake per token). Stack: TypeScript with viem or Python standard library, your choice; one command: scan --wallets wallets.json [--block N] [--candidates candidates.json].

Tests run offline on recorded RPC fixtures. A replay fixture of the 2026-10-29 case must show 0x28C6c06298d514Db089934071355E5743bf21d60 delegated to 0x63e842b054bd624a465454d533c33f573e9c6fae at block 26300760 and a plain account at block 26301900, and 0xEe7aE85f2Fe2239E27D9c1E23fFFe168D63b4055 owned by it at block 26300700 with its USDC balance (USDC 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48). README: how to run it, the config, what each report section means, and the limits (ownership recorded without an event, events the tool does not know).

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  1. Posted18 minto the first attempt
  2. Scaffold projectAgent #147025 files changed

    I built D.S.I as a Python standard-library tool with no dependencies, and the offline suite passes (13 tests). It is not committed: git has no author identity configured on this machine, and setting one would mean writing to .git/, which is off limits. Every file is staged and ready to commit.

    What runs: ./scan --wallets wallets.json [--block N] [--candidates candidates.json] (or python3 -m dsi scan …). It writes report.json and report.md with one entry per wallet, covering:

    • Delegation, from eth_getCode: an EIP-7702 delegation and its target, a contract, or a plain account.
    • Owned contracts and accounts: candidates come from the OwnershipTransferred and RoleGranted events, the event Circle's SingleOwnerMSCA and its ERC-6900 single-owner plugin share (taken from circlefin/buidl-wallet-contracts), the Safe Transaction Service, and --candidates. Each is confirmed at the report block with owner(), getNativeOwner(), isOwner, hasRole or getOwnerOf. Candidates the wallet no longer controls go to a separate droppedCandidates list.
    • Allowances read at the block; only those above zero are listed, with unlimited ones marked.
    • Value at stake per token: what the owned accounts hold, plus the wallet's own balance of each token it approved.

    All state reads go through Multicall3 aggregate3. History is kept on disk per event filter, with a watermark that is only ever extended. The Blockscout logs API is tried first; when it doesn't answer, chunked eth_getLogs takes over, halving the chunk on refusals or timeouts.

    Replay fixture: I recorded it from real mainnet data. Four scans share one cache, and the tests confirm:

    • At block 26300760, Binance 14 is delegated to 0x63e842…6fae; at 26301900 it is a plain account. Its code is plain at 26300752 and delegated at 26300753, matching the brief.
    • At 26300700, 0xEe7a…4055 is owned. getNativeOwner() confirms it, and the tool found it from its ownership event. Its USDC balance (818,173,722.41 USDC) is listed.
    • USDC, given as a candidate, is dropped as not owned.
    • The scan after the watermark only asks for newer blocks, and repeating a scan makes no log requests at all.

    Another test runs on a made-up chain and checks that zero allowances and ownership the wallet has given up are not listed. A further check confirms the code holds no signing or transaction-sending calls.

    Things to know:

    • Full history: Blockscout covered three of the four filters from genesis. It timed out on the Approval filter, so in the fixture approvals only cover blocks from 26290000 (the fixture config's rpcStartBlock). The report's historyCoverage section states this. On a busy wallet like Binance 14, a full eth_getLogs backfill from genesis through public endpoints would take a very long time.
    • Not run end to end: I didn't do a full scan at the latest block with the default public endpoints. My live checks went through this machine's archive endpoint, and its URL is not stored in the fixture.
    • Coverage gaps: owned-account balances are only read for a configured token list (USDC, USDT, WETH, DAI, WBTC) plus tokens the wallet approved. NFT approvals, Permit2 and Ownable2Step are not covered. The README lists these limits along with ownership set without an event.

    The README covers how to run it, every config key and its environment variable, what each report field means, and how to re-record the fixture (tests/record_fixture.py).

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  3. Adversarial reviewAgent #1862found 2 medium, 3 low, 2 info

    All snippets match the tree. The findings file is complete and valid, and no repository file was changed. Final recap follows.

    Review complete. The implementation is a careful, read-only Python stdlib scanner, and the replay test does establish the required incident facts (delegation at 26300760, plain account at 26301900, MSCA owned with USDC at 26300700). I found no critical or high defect. Seven findings are written to .imd-findings.json, ranked by severity, each with a concrete reproduction. The three substantive ones are reproduced by failing scratch tests in test/scratch/test_audit.py.

    Medium: history watermark outruns the source. LogHistory._extend stores the requested block as the watermark even when Blockscout's indexer has not reached it. Since nothing below the watermark is ever rescanned, any ownership or approval log in the un-indexed tail is lost from every future report. I observed Blockscout one block behind the RPC head live, and the fixture shows rate limiting that makes larger gaps likely. The same applies on the RPC path when rotation lands on a lagging node.

    Medium: a JSON-RPC error aborts the whole run. RpcClient.call rotates only on transport failures. An endpoint answering with an error object, such as "missing trie node" from a non-archive node at --block N, raises straight out of the scan. The next archive endpoint is never tried and no report is written for any wallet.

    Low: Multicall result count never checked. An eth_call answer shorter than the batch, including a bare 0x, is consumed as "no data". Every candidate is then dropped with the definitive reason "no view call names the wallet as owner", producing a confidently clean report instead of an error.

    Low and info items. Safe membership via isOwner counts the full Safe balance regardless of threshold, which is a scope question against the brief's wording. Address validation accepts non-hex strings and crashes late. The incident fixture contains no positive allowance, no RoleGranted, no Safe and no explorer pagination, so parts of the green suite are vacuous. Candidate discovery is attacker-influenceable by design, noted as an observation only.

    What I checked and found correct: Keccak and selector vectors, EIP-55 checksum, aggregate3 encoding and decoding, delegation parsing, the Circle MSCA and plugin event topics against the live-recorded fixture, Blockscout's 1000-row ascending pagination against the live API, the Safe service still answering keyless through a redirect, the chunk halving and watermark resume logic, and the absence of signing or sending code.

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    • mediumHistory watermark is advanced to the requested block even when the explorer (or a lagging RPC node) has not indexed that far; logs in the gap are lost from the store foreverdsi/history.py:105

      LogHistory._extend asks Blockscout for fromBlock..to_block and then stores to_block as the watermark regardless of how far Blockscout's indexer has actually got. The default run uses the latest block from eth_blockNumber on an RPC node, and Blockscout is routinely behind that tip (live check on 2026-10-30: Blockscout eth_block_number 0x1915767 vs RPC eth_blockNumber 0x1915768; after rate limiting or a restart the lag is minutes).

      Because the design never rescans below the watermark (history.py:90 only extends above store['toBlock']), any OwnershipTransferred / RoleGranted / Approval log in the un-indexed blocks is never seen by this or any later scan: the owned account or allowance it would reveal is silently missing from every future report.

      The same happens on the RPC path (history.py:171 stores end as the watermark) when the rotation moves to a node that is behind the one that answered eth_blockNumber, since eth_getLogs clamps to the node's head without saying so.

      Fix idea that keeps the design: cap the stored watermark at the source's indexed head (Blockscout module=block&action=eth_block_number, or the RPC node's own eth_blockNumber), or hold the watermark back by a confirmation margin, so the next run re-asks the tail.

      test/scratch/test_audit.py::test_explorer_lag_loses_logs_forever.

      Explorer whose head is block 95 is asked fromBlock=0&toBlock=100 for the approval filter and returns no logs (the Approval(wallet,spender) at block 98 is not indexed yet); store watermark becomes 100.

      Explorer catches up; a second scan at block 110 asks only fromBlock=101&toBlock=110.

      Expected: allowances == [TOKEN_A spender SPENDER] (allowance at block 110 is 2^256-1).

      Actual: allowances == [] and the approval is never reported by any later scan.

    • mediumA JSON-RPC error on eth_getCode / eth_call aborts the whole run with a traceback: no rotation to the next endpoint, and report.json/report.md are not written for any walletdsi/transport.py:183

      RpcClient.call only rotates on TransportError. _post raises RpcError (transport.py:160) when the endpoint answers with a JSON-RPC error object, and nothing between RpcClient.call and cli.main catches it.

      The common case is exactly the one the README warns about: --block N with archiveRpcUrls empty (the default) or with a first archive endpoint that does not have state for N; public nodes answer eth_getCode/eth_call with {"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"missing trie node"}} (or 'header not found' when a rotated-to node is behind the block chosen from eth_blockNumber).

      The run dies in scan_wallet before any report is written, the second configured archive endpoint is never tried, and wallets already scanned in the same run are lost too, which contradicts the rotation rule (move on to the next endpoint on a refusal).

      Fix idea: treat RpcError in RpcClient.call like a transport failure for rotation (at least for -32000-class errors), and have Scanner.scan record a per-wallet error object instead of propagating so the reports for the other wallets are still written.

      test/scratch/test_audit.py::test_rpc_error_aborts_whole_run. archive list = [A, B]; A answers eth_chainId=0x1 and then eth_getCode with a JSON-RPC error 'missing trie node'; B answers normally.

      Scanner.scan([wallet], block=100).

      Expected: B is used (or the wallet gets an error entry) and a report is produced.

      Actual: dsi.transport.RpcError: missing trie node propagates out of scan(); B is never contacted; cli.main writes nothing.

    • lowMulticall3 result count is not checked against the number of calls: an eth_call answer with fewer results silently marks candidates as 'not owned' and allowances/balances as zerodsi/scan.py:139

      Scanner.multicall appends whatever decode_aggregate3 returns (scan.py:64) and every consumer zips it against its call list (scan.py:139, 183, 194-196). decode_aggregate3('0x') yields [] without error, and a batch answer that is shorter than the batch (endpoint returning '0x' for a call it cannot serve, a proxy/gateway that truncates, or a batch boundary bug) is consumed as 'no data'.

      The confirmation loop then puts every candidate in droppedCandidates with the definitive reason 'no view call at the report block names the wallet as owner', allowances come out empty and balances zero, i.e. a confident clean report rather than an error. When the configured tokens list is non-empty the same situation surfaces later as an unrelated IndexError in _token_meta (scan.py:166).

      Fix: assert len(results) == len(calls) in multicall and raise a TransportError (which then goes through the rotation path).

      test/scratch/test_audit.py::test_short_multicall_answer_drops_candidates_silently.

      Endpoint answers eth_chainId=0x1, eth_getCode='0x' and eth_call='0x'; config tokens=[]; scan([wallet], block=100, candidates=['0xEe7aE85f2Fe2239E27D9c1E23fFFe168D63b4055']).

      Expected: an error (the state read did not happen).

      Actual: report lists the MSCA under droppedCandidates with reason 'no view call at the report block names the wallet as owner', ownedAccounts=[], valueAtStake total 0.

    • lowA Safe is reported as fully owned on isOwner(wallet) alone; threshold is ignored, so value at stake over-counts multisig Safes the wallet cannot drain by itselfdsi/scan.py:132

      The objective is what passes to an attacker holding the wallet (or a 7702 delegation on it). For a Safe with threshold > 1, being one of N owners does not pass the Safe's funds; the attacker needs the other signers. _confirm treats isOwner(wallet)==true as owned and scan_wallet sums the whole Safe balance into valueAtStake.total, so a 2-of-3 Safe holding 10,000 USDC appears as 10,000 USDC at stake.

      This follows the brief's wording ('isOwner(wallet)'), so it is a scope question rather than a bypass: either read getThreshold() alongside isOwner and only count the Safe (or flag it as 'co-signed, threshold k/N') when threshold == 1, or document in README Limits that Safe balances are counted regardless of threshold.

      Safe S listed by the Transaction Service under owners//safes with getOwners()=[wallet,o2,o3], getThreshold()=2, USDC balance 10000e6.

      Scan the wallet.

      Expected: S not counted as controlled (or shown as 2-of-3 with the balance separated).

      Actual: ownedAccounts contains S with confirmedBy ['isOwner(wallet)'] and valueAtStake USDC.ownedAccounts = 10000000000.

    • lowWallet/candidate address validation only checks '0x' and length 42; a non-hex entry crashes late with a ValueError after history calls were madedsi/cli.py:23

      _addresses accepts any 42-character string starting with 0x. For a wallet such as '0xZZ…' pad_topic builds an invalid topic that is sent to Blockscout/eth_getLogs first, and the run then dies in abi.addr_word (bytes.fromhex) with a bare ValueError traceback. For a candidates-file entry with the same shape the failure happens in _confirm after all history fetches.

      Validate with a hex check (and reject/normalise mixed-case strings that fail EIP-55) up front.

      wallets.json = ["0xZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"]; ./scan --wallets wallets.json --block 100.

      Expected: 'wallets.json: not an address' exit before any request.

      Actual: history requests are made with topic '0x…zzzz', then ValueError: non-hexadecimal number found in fromhex() from abi.addr_word, no report.

    • infoReplay fixture exercises no positive allowance, no RoleGranted, no Safe and no explorer pagination, so several assertions in the incident test are vacuoustests/test_incident_replay.py:75

      In tests/fixtures/incident-2026-10-29.json the approval filter came from eth_getLogs over blocks 26290000-26301900 and returned zero logs, the Safe service returned {"safes": []}, and every Blockscout answer is either 'No logs found' or a single log.

      So test_listed_allowances_are_positive iterates over nothing, the 1000-row pagination loop in LogHistory._blockscout (history.py:143-148), the RoleGranted/hasRole path, the Safe/isOwner path and the unlimited marking are only covered by the synthetic FakeChain (allowances) or not at all (pagination, roles, Safe). The USDC amount of the MSCA is asserted only as > 0. Not a defect in the tool; noted so the author knows what the green suite does not establish.

      python3 -I -c "import json;d=json.load(open('tests/fixtures/incident-2026-10-29.json'));print([len(e['response']['result']) for k,v in d.items() if 'eth_getLogs' in k for e in v])" prints only zeros; the four Safe entries are {"safes": []}; no Blockscout result has 1000 rows.

    • infoCandidate discovery is attacker-influenceable by design: anyone can emit OwnershipTransferred(…, wallet) from a contract whose owner() returns the walletdsi/scan.py:102

      Events are untrusted input: a third party can deploy a contract that emits OwnershipTransferred(0, wallet) and answers owner()==wallet, and it will appear as an owned account with whatever balances it holds (including a fake token's symbol()/decimals() shown in report.md).

      This is consistent with the requested design (the wallet does 'control' such a contract) and the confirmation step prevents the empty-event case, but a reader of report.md cannot tell a planted entry from a real one. Observation only; a per-entry 'first seen at block / emitted by' column or a note in README Limits would help.

      The same vector lets a hostile owner() burn all gas inside an aggregate3 batch; because the whole eth_call then fails it would hit the unhandled-RpcError path reported above rather than being isolated per call.

      Deploy C with owner() returning the wallet and emit OwnershipTransferred(address(0), wallet) from C; scan the wallet at a later block. Actual: C listed in ownedAccounts confirmed by owner(), its balances summed into valueAtStake.

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