Overview
- Developers confirmed the joint effort to unify account abstraction ended on Monday, Sept. 14, with Ethlabs founder Derek Chiang saying Base and Ethereum will pursue separate standards.
- Base will advance EIP-8130 and is testing it on its vibenet devnet while Ethereum L1 continues work on EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, with both remaining active drafts in the EIP registry.
- The proposals share goals such as gasless flows, passkey wallets, and batching but differ on mechanics: EIP-8130 requires explicit authenticators so nodes can pre-determine validation work, while EIP-8141 breaks transactions into programmable calls and prioritizes extensibility and post-quantum paths.
- Wallets, node implementers, and dApp teams now face practical fragmentation because an app built for EIP-8130’s assumptions on Base may behave differently on Ethereum mainnet if EIP-8141 ships as drafted.
- The split highlights a larger tension between L1 priorities like censorship resistance and privacy and L2 priorities like scalability and compliance, and it shifts near-term coordination toward tooling and governance decisions that will shape cross-chain compatibility.