A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

I have a question because “ethereum account abstraction” seems to be a hot topic. My question is - if the fundamental feature of decentralisation is end user control as principal with no agent or intermediary, and the user id is a 2^256 integer that the user must control - what is there to abstract??? An int???

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There's no need to have one single fundamental key pair! Can have multiple keys: M-of-N multisig, different keys with different authorizations (eg. authorize one key to sign ERC-1271 messages with a specific set of prefixes), recovery....

Here's my diagram of the AA use cases:

An ethereum account is an abstraction itself. So it’s turtles all the way down to the fundamental key pair, and the requirement for a user keeping the skey themselves or give up their agency because they can’t be responsible for it. It seems like a trade off, so is the ETH community saying it’s trade off time???

What’s there to abstract is the signature algorithm. There’s lots of middle ground b/w managing an ECDSA Priv key for years vs login with Google 

Eg. using passkeys 

it also decouples “ownership” of the account from one key and makes it dynamic

A key feature of decentralization is also freedom of choice