Vitalik: EIP-8141 Expected to be Implemented Within a Year, Comprehensively Solving Account Abstraction

Odaily News Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that Ethereum has been discussing Account Abstraction (AA) since early 2016. Now, EIP-8141, as a comprehensive proposal, aims to address all remaining issues related to AA. The core concept of this proposal is "frame transactions," where a transaction contains N calls that can read each other's call data and authorize the sender and gas payer.

This mechanism supports multiple use cases: ordinary account transactions (such as multi-signature, variable keys, quantum-resistant signature schemes) are completed through validation frames and execution frames; when paying gas fees with non-ETH tokens, it can be achieved through a payment master contract without any intermediaries; for privacy protocols, it can be implemented by verifying ZK-SNARKs or adding two-dimensional random numbers through a payment contract.

In terms of security, at the on-chain level, a transaction is only valid when the validation frame returns an ACCEPT with a pay-gas flag. At the mempool level, conservative rules will be adopted initially and gradually expanded later. EIP-8141 is highly complementary to FOCIL, with FOCIL ensuring rapid transaction inclusion and AA ensuring that complex operations can be executed directly as first-class transactions. The proposal is also discussing EOA compatibility, which is feasible in principle. After over a decade of research, these technologies are expected to be implemented through the Hegota fork within a year.