Ethereum smart accounts are finally coming 'within a year' — Vitalik Buterin

Removing intermediaries with account abstraction is a “core principle of non-ugly cypherpunk Ethereum,” said Buterin.

Ethereum account abstraction, or smart accounts, will be shipped with the Hegota upgrade “within a year,” said Vitalik Buterin on Saturday.

“We have been talking about account abstraction ever since early 2016,” said the Ethereum co-founder over the weekend. 

He added that now, “we finally have EIP-8141, an omnibus that wraps up and solves every remaining problem that AA [account abstraction] was intended to address (plus more),” and it is slated for deployment this year.  

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