Smart contract wallets are gaining traction amongst devs, because they offer several advantages over traditional EOA accounts. ERC-4337, the Account Abstraction EIP, proposes a standard for creating smart contract accounts that can have interchangeable signers and authentication schemes, allow for gas to be paid by third parties, and create a new mempool of transactions that can be bundled and put onchain by motivated third parties.

My guests today are Will Hennessy and Noam Hurwitz, who work on Alchemy's Account Abstraction team.

In this episode, Will and Noam walk me through the ins-and-outs of Account Abstraction. We discuss the actors in the lifecycle of an AA transaction, how different signing schemes like Magic link and onchain r1 verification fit in, and how AA wallets will connect to dapps. We also dive into Alchemy's latet offering, AccountKit, which provides a suite of options for building smart contract accounts.

It was fantastic getting to talk to Will and Noam who are knowledgable builders making quality implementations at a crucial software frontier.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

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