[QA] Token appears in the list only after contract address is entered in Search field

[tsadovska]

Describe the current behavior in detail

Reproducible on https://wormhole-connect-mainnet.netlify.app/ and https://portalbridge.com/.

Steps:

1. Select Unichain network (MetaMask wallet auto-connects)
2. Check if WAVAX token is displayed in the list (actual result: WAVAX token is not displayed in the list)
3. Search WAVAX token by contract address 0xfB512a7Fc78CE23c231a561adc42967A46b9Bf29
4. Check if token is displayed

Actual result: Token is now displayed in the list
Expected result: Token is always displayed in the list.

Notes/ Attachments

Screen.Recording.2025-02-26.at.17.58.15.mov

[Wesleyleung]

Is this just Unichain or all chains?

[kev1n-peters]

This happens because WAVAX on Unichain doesn't exist in your tokens cache. We periodically run this script (https://github.com/wormhole-foundation/wormhole-connect/blob/development/wormhole-connect/scripts/checkForeignAssetsConfig.ts) to add new Wormhole-wrapped (token bridge) tokens to the cache automatically when Connect first loads, but haven't ran it for Unichain yet. This is not a bug per se, just how Connect works currently.