By Isaac • September 14, 2026 11:09 pm •
Base and Ethereum are no longer moving together on one of the most important upgrades for everyday crypto users.
The Coinbase-backed layer-2 network and Ethereum’s core development community are now pursuing different account-abstraction standards, according to a public update from Ethlabs co-founder Derek Chiang. In plain English, the two camps have split over how smart-wallet features should be built into the Ethereum ecosystem.
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That matters because account abstraction is supposed to make crypto wallets feel less like raw blockchain tools and more like modern apps. It can support sponsored transaction fees, recovery options, batched actions and more flexible authorization rules.
Those improvements could remove some of the friction that still keeps regular users away.
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