We've landed on a more elegant solution: EIP-7702.
This proposal, introduced by Vitalik Buterin in 2024, officially went live on Ethereum mainnet during the Pectra upgrade in 2025. Here's what makes it significant: it empowers EOAs to persistently delegate execution logic to contract implementations. Essentially, an externally owned account can now hand over its operational control to a smart contract in a way that's permanent until explicitly revoked.
This shift opens up new possibilities for account abstraction and improves the flexibility of how transactions can be managed on Ethereum. It's a technical breakthrough that simplifies how users can interact with the network without compromising security or decentralization.
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NftMetaversePainter
· 2h ago
ngl, the algorithmic elegance of eip-7702 is precisely what separates computational art from mere transaction management... finally, ethereum's primitives are catching up to the aesthetic vision i've been articulating
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LayerZeroHero
· 2h ago
Nah, now the EOA is really bound to the contract. I don't know if it's progress or a lose-lose situation.
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BTCBeliefStation
· 2h ago
ngl this is what account abstraction should look like, finally waited for it
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HypotheticalLiquidator
· 2h ago
Does EOA permanently delegate permissions to the contract? How is this health factor calculated... Once the smart contract has a bug, chain-reaction liquidations are guaranteed, and systemic risk is maximized.
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BridgeTrustFund
· 2h ago
ngl 7702 really changes the game, finally no longer tortured by the constraints of EOA
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BearMarketBard
· 2h ago
Ah, it's the same old account abstraction again. It feels like we're going in circles.
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BlockchainTherapist
· 3h ago
It should have been like this a long time ago, EOA can finally get rid of those complicated operations
We've landed on a more elegant solution: EIP-7702.
This proposal, introduced by Vitalik Buterin in 2024, officially went live on Ethereum mainnet during the Pectra upgrade in 2025. Here's what makes it significant: it empowers EOAs to persistently delegate execution logic to contract implementations. Essentially, an externally owned account can now hand over its operational control to a smart contract in a way that's permanent until explicitly revoked.
This shift opens up new possibilities for account abstraction and improves the flexibility of how transactions can be managed on Ethereum. It's a technical breakthrough that simplifies how users can interact with the network without compromising security or decentralization.