Etherspot Receives Ethereum Foundation Grant to Build EIP-7702 Censorship-resistant Infrastructure

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The Etherspot team has been selected by the Ethereum Foundation to build a free and censorship-resistant infrastructure for EIP-7702!

EIP-7702, one of the key proposals included in the recent Pectra upgrade, introduces a major improvement for externally owned accounts (EOAs). It enables EOAs to temporarily act like smart contract wallets, which brings some of the Account Abstraction benefits introduced by ERC-4337 while keeping their existing EOA. This proposal is a significant milestone toward mainstream adoption of Account Abstraction and represents a crucial step forward for EVM wallets.

But there’s a challenge: the lack of infrastructure for public UserOp mempool submission could slow down EIP-7702 adoption and introduce centralization and censorship risks. To address this, the Ethereum Foundation has approved a grant for the Etherspot team to develop and launch publicly accessible, censorship-resistant UserOp mempool nodes. The EIP-7702 infrastructure will be free for any project or individual developer building across the EVM ecosystem (within reasonable usage of course).

The EIP-7702 infrastructure will first launch on Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum, with compatibility for World Chain, Base, Unichain, and Linea to follow. All bundlers will run nodes with native tracer support, enabling fast transaction execution. Integrating this infrastructure will take minimal effort as it’ll work seamlessly with popular web3 libraries out of the box. To ensure reliability and developer confidence, 24/7 support will be available for the services.

Additionally, this setup adds redundancy to the existing bundler infrastructure as UserOps from both ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 are shared across multiple bundlers via the p2p mempool. We will be sharing comprehensive documentation in the coming weeks, covering everything you need to start using the library. Follow Etherspot and ERC-4337 on X for the latest updates.

The goal of this grant is to uphold Ethereum’s core values of decentralization, censorship resistance, and openness. We’re proud to be part of this mission and excited to contribute to the future of Account Abstraction and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

🧑‍💻 Are you building with EIP-7702? Forget about your infrastructure costs, get in touch with us at info@etherspot.io to make it free!

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