Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said collaboration between two account abstraction proposals, EIP-8130 led by Base and EIP-8141 led by Ethereum Layer 1, formally broke down last week. In his account, Ethereum and Base will now move ahead with different AA standards rather than a shared framework.
Chiang said the split reflects a basic mismatch in priorities between L1 and L2 systems. Ethereum L1 is focused on censorship resistance, privacy, and post-quantum security, while L2 networks such as Base are prioritizing high throughput, compliance, and customizability. He added that both sides had tried to find a common standard that could serve both sets of goals, but any workable design would have required at least one side to give ground on issues it considered central.
According to Chiang, the immediate cost of that fragmentation will fall on wallet developers. He outlined two possible paths from here: build a broader coordination mechanism that includes more stakeholders to govern shared resources such as the EVM, or accept fragmentation between L1 and L2 as unavoidable and focus on wallets and applications that abstract away the differences underneath.
Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said in a post that cooperation on account abstraction standards between EIP-8130, led by Base, and EIP-8141, led by Ethereum Layer 1 and also known as Frame Transactions, formally broke down last week. Ethereum and Base will now push ahead with different AA standards, according to Chiang.
He said Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks are divided by core objectives. Ethereum L1 is aiming for censorship resistance, privacy protection, and post-quantum security. L2 networks such as Base are placing higher priority on high throughput, compliance, and customizability.
Chiang said the two sides had tried to find a shared standard that could satisfy both camps, but any proposal would have required at least one side to compromise on its main goals. No agreement was reached, and the burden created by fragmentation will shift to wallet developers.
He said there are two paths ahead. One is to create a coordination mechanism with a wider set of stakeholders to jointly govern shared resources such as the EVM. The other is to accept that fragmentation between L1 and L2 is unavoidable, then focus on building wallets and applications that abstract away the differences at the base layer.
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