Safe, Smart Contract Wallets, & Account Abstraction with Richard Meissner

Today’s guest is Richard Meissner, co founder & CTO at Safe. Richard is an expert on all things smart contract wallets, and we used this episode to go deep into account abstraction. In particular, we discussed the Safe contract architecture and how things like Safe modules & smart contract wallets work under the hood. The Safe team has rolled out a ton of new libraries & tech that make supporting smart contract wallets and AA a breeze, and we discussed them as well.

00:00 Intro
3:55 How Richard got into the industry
8:31 The Safe contract architecture
14:13 Safe modules
17:11 Misconceptions and account abstraction
20:45 ERC 4337 Infrastructure 
23:11 How app developers can make proper use of smart contract wallets
25:45 What does the ecosystem need to do to enable better UX?
29:50 Solving the YOLO signing problem
36:37 The Safe Core Suite
42:30 Frictionless onboarding 
50:08 How Richard & the Safe team approach smart contract security
56:00 Advice for early career devs
59:45 What does Richard hope our industry looks like in 10 years?

Safe Core: https://twitter.com/safe/status/1630946737220141062
Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rimeissner
Safe, Smart Contract Wallets, & Account Abstraction with Richard Meissner
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