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Pedro Gomes: WalletConnect v2, account abstraction, and building a communications protocol

Into the Bytecode

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Using Cryptocurrency to Manage Accounts on the Blockchain

A simple implementation of just signing a message verifying ownership of an account gives you some benefits. You can now associate centralized accounts like on Facebook Instagram and Twitter with some activity you've done on the blockchain. I think what it's going to start looking more interesting is when they're actually used as the primary way of authenticating themselves into these applications in the past you could just generate new email accounts but what if you could actually just generate a new wallet account? It's also an easier way of managing accounts because you no longer have to remember your password to your email to recover your accounts.

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