Ethereum Account Abstraction

Passkeys enable super fast, easy wallet creation but is that really the holy grail? A wallet should serve as a secure, reliable, and accessible identity.

It's led me to think more about something I'm calling "account durability"

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@accountless.eth would love your thoughts

I like this framing, though it feels like "user owned" is an important and omitted aspect.

Can an account be durable if its password is controlled by a third party? Feels like it fails the "reliable access" test since it can be yoinked by {third party} at any time.

your analysis is great. i created this (incomplete) chart a year ago when considering wallet + sign-in options, but i had not properly considered durability. you're correct that even if the initial account creation process is simple (passkey, etc), maintaining the account could be more difficult.

(terms i used here were often framework-specific and might be out of date)

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thanks!

fwiw saw you mention in a different thread that you're using passkeys in a native mobile app context, which is an entirely different ballgame and feels like a great passkey use case.