Developers Scrap Joint Effort to Synchronize Ethereum and Base Account Abstraction

TL;DR

• Ethereum and Base developers abandoned their joint plan to align two account abstraction proposals, EIP-8130 and EIP-8141.
• The split stemmed from opposing priorities: Ethereum prioritizes censorship resistance and security, while Base targets scale and compliance.
• If both proposals move forward separately, wallet developers will need to support two distinct native transaction formats.

Ethereum and Base developers ended the collaboration aimed at unifying two account abstraction proposals —EIP-8130 and EIP-8141— and will pursue separate standards instead of a shared design. The information was confirmed by Derek Chiang, developer at Ethlabs, in a post on X.

Both proposals aim to simplify wallet usage: among other improvements, they would allow users to pay fees without holding ETH in their account and sign transactions with a phone passkey. For weeks, the authors of EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 attempted to define a shared standard that could work for both Ethereum’s layer 1 and Base’s layer 2.

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