Account Abstraction

Account abstraction is a term that has become increasingly relevant in the world of DeFi and Web 3 as a whole. It is a concept that describes separating the management of assets from the assets themselves, allowing for secure and transparent access and transfer of said assets. …

Wallet Research — Adoption, Scalability Author: https://twitter.com/prezzel Account abstraction is coming up more and more as a panacea to remove the friction of onboarding new users to the blockchain. It solves a couple different challenges many new users have and introduces an interesting new paradigm for how we think of…

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Are Wallet experiences broken? Imagine having to give a signature for every video you watch, post you like, or comment on your favourite pictures on Facebook. People would’ve stopped using it. With the way blockchains are built today, there are several UX frictions starting all the way down from wallet level, interaction level, and…

Technological innovation in blockchain has flourished over the last few years — STARKs, SNARKs, EIP-1559, the Ethereum Merge — are all huge technological achievements. However, UX and UI design have failed to keep up. People still get stuck on 16-word seed-phrases, and getting into DeFi without a centralised intermediary is…

As Ethereum’s use cases become increasingly diverse, the drawbacks of using traditional externally owned accounts (EOA) on Ethereum wallets have become clear; these accounts have basic functions, average performance, and present issues with key management. Plus, they do not support concurrent transactions. Smart contract wallets, utilizing contract accounts (CA) as…

In this post, we’ll explore the issues with UX in the current web3 landscape, and dive deeper into how a proposal known as account abstraction provides a potential solution to several of the biggest problems we have today. The reality is, a poor UX is a significant drawback to building…

Intro to Predicates The FuelVM introduces a unique primitive blockchain construct called a predicate. A predicate is essentially a new mechanism for authorizing transactions. In Ethereum, the only way to have permission to transfer ether or call a smart contract function is to own the private key of the account that owns that…

This article is reproduced with permission from the author. Source: https://en.foresightnews.pro/2023/01/10/deep-dive-in-account-abstraction-7-year-evolution-path-and-segments-map/ Author: Crypto Irene Introduction Self — custody required wallet address is the user’s “account” in the on-chain world, a major obstacle for users to onboard Web3. In fact, the attempt of improving the “account” system has been ongoing for more…