ditching wallet_switchEthereumChain 🔚 

the stateful model of wallet connections where a wallet is connected to an application on a single chain feels broken

wallets are moving towards programmatic switching and displaying all assets for all chains all the time which delivery a much better UX

applications are moving towards using their own Ethereum RPC providers for public rpc requests and are only sending actions that require a signature to the wallet

given this can we get rid of `wallet_switchEthereumChain` entirely and specify the chain on individuals requests like `eth_sendTransaction`?

it's a common stumbling block for devs and adds a cognitive overhead since transactions needs to be wrapped in logic to inspect the current chain and switch

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This seems like a behavior /walletbeat ought to track. Under the Ecosystem category perhaps.

cc @polymutex.eth

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Hmm, EIP-1637 seemed like a pretty reasonable proposal. Wonder why it never caught on or got revisited.

cc @pedrouid

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1637

https://docs.metamask.io/wallet/how-to/send-transactions/#chain-id

I’m most curious about whether upon receiving `eth_sendTransaction` with a supported chain ID different from the “current chain ID”, wallets:
• error
• ignore the specified chain ID and sign the transaction with the “current chain ID” instead
• accept the tx quietly without changing the “current chain ID”
• accept the tx and also change / announce the new “current chain ID” as if they had also received `wallet_switchEthereumChain` / `wallet_updateEthereumChain`

This is a real UX problem for sure, but since solving it requires frontend/wallet cooperation, it requires standardization before Walletbeat can track it in a productive way.