Remove Blockaid. As currently implemented, it is lying to users.

Nobody has claimed this yet.

**What is this about?**

Blockaid is reporting brand new contracts deployed by anyone as "known for scams". Attempting to report the false positive to Blockaid results in them requiring you to prove your contract's innocence before they will whitelist it. While I can appreciate wanting to protect users, it goes against the whole ethos of crypto to create a walled garden that classifies every builder a scammer until they prove themselves innocent.

If they were just saying, "this contract has not been independently audited by Blockaid" that would be more reasonable, but instead what they are doing is flagging brand new contracts from legitimate sources (like myself) as scams.

Blockaid should be removed from MetaMask to send a clear message to them that this sort of behavior is unacceptable on Ethereum. We are trying to build an open ecosystem that welcomes new developers, not one that calls everyone who shows up a scammer.

Here are some people reporting the issue to MetaMask, who knows how many others have had their new contracts flagged as "definitely malicious" when they simply weren't manually verified by anyone at Blockaid yet.

https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/34283
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/33835
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/30960
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/32721
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/25016
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/23854
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/23845
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/23752
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/23363
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/22062

**Stakeholder review needed before the work gets merged**

- [ ] Engineering (needed in most cases)
- [ ] Design
- [ ] Product
- [ ] QA (automation tests are required to pass before merging PRs but not all changes are covered by automation tests - please review if QA is needed beyond automation tests)
- [ ] Security
- [ ] Legal
- [ ] Marketing
- [ ] Management (please specify)
- [ ] Other (please specify)

Start by locating the existing Blockaid integration in the MetaMask extension and read the linked reports to understand the false-positive behavior. Confirm the removal scope with the required stakeholder reviews; done means Blockaid no longer classifies contracts in the extension and the relevant automated tests pass.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.