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Wallet Engineering

EVM Smart Contract Wallets

Context

Account Abstraction (ERC-4337): A contract can also be the owner of another one, enabling composability to add additional layers of access control complexity.

Context

Questions

Which engineering decision related to this topic has the highest switching cost once made — and how do you make it well with incomplete information?

  • At what scale or complexity level does the right answer to this topic change significantly?
  • How does the introduction of AI-native workflows change the conventional wisdom about this technology?
  • Which anti-pattern in this area is most commonly introduced by developers who know enough to be dangerous but not enough to know what they don't know?