Julien Niset - Argent and Account Abstraction
Today’s guest is Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent. In this episode, we deep dive account abstraction, how Argent works under the hood, and what app developers need to understand about smart contract wallets to build the next generation of web3 products.
Today’s guest is Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent. Argent is a non custodial smart contract wallet that aims to improve UX across the entirety of web3. Julien has also become an expert & thought leader on account abstraction. In this episode, we deep dive account abstraction, how Argent works under the hood, and what app developers need to understand about all of this to build the next generation of web3 products.
Julien is also an ex-quantum physicist, so we got to ask him some fun cryptography questions as well (:
If you’re interested in improving UX for your users or just understanding the current state of account abstraction is at and what it’s all about, this episode is for you.
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00:00 intro
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00:00 intro
4:04 How Julien got involved in crypto
6:29 Julien’s background in quantum physics
9:12 Will all of our cryptography get broken soon by strong quantum computers?
10:02 The founding of argent
15:47 Account abstraction EIPs
23:59 EIP 4337
25:13 A fee market for user operations
27:33 Benefits unlocked by account abstraction (multicall, session keys)
33:06 What should app devs know about integrating smart contract wallets?
40:04 Good workflows Julien has seen that have been enabled by smart contract wallets
41:16 Social recovery
49:34 Starknet, zkSync
52:03 EIP wars
59:07 Argent’s focus on security
1:04:42 Julien’s long term focus - real products for real people
Argent: https://www.argent.xyz/
Julien on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jniset
EIP 4337: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4337
Argent: https://www.argent.xyz/
Julien on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jniset
EIP 4337: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4337