CAIP-275 primary sources

Collected: 2026-05-08 UTC

Primary sources reviewed

https://standards.chainagnostic.org/CAIPs/caip-275
- Official CAIP draft page for Domain Wallet Authentication
- Key points used: authenticator text record; URL-or-JSON resolution model; authFlows schema with address / chain / platform / connection / URI; EIP-6963 wallet matching guidance; injected-wallet race-condition warning; WalletConnect fallback; CAIP-25 session-management linkage
https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/pull/275
- Official GitHub proposal / discussion thread for the standard
- Used as provenance for the proposal history and discussion trail

CAIP-275 is analytically useful because it moves wallet-auth bootstrap logic into domain metadata and authenticator providers rather than leaving wallet choice entirely to browser injection order or a user manually pasting an address.
The most important control surface is not the domain name itself but the combination of name-resolution trust, authenticator hosting, wallet-identity metadata, and application logic for choosing among advertised flows.
It is a good comparison class for CAIP-282 and CAIP-294 because those standards focus on browser discovery and transport, while CAIP-275 focuses on resolving a human-readable identifier into a preferred authentication path.