{"id":24992,"date":"2023-11-14T04:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/new-figures-show-hardly-anyone-is-using-erc-4337-smart-accounts\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T04:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:54:25","slug":"new-figures-show-hardly-anyone-is-using-erc-4337-smart-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/new-figures-show-hardly-anyone-is-using-erc-4337-smart-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"New figures show hardly anyone is using ERC-4337 smart accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethereum account abstraction advocate John Rising has shared some \u201csobering\u201d numbers showing overall ERC-4437 adoption has been far from ideal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Nov. 14 post<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter), Rising shared data points that showed ERC-4337-enabled smart accounts suffered a decline in users, low transaction activity and poor operational costs for core infrastructure providers.<\/p>\n

The ERC-4337 standard was launched through a surprise March 1 announcement at WalletCon in Denver. At the time, many were optimistic that \u201dsmart accounts\u201d would witness rapid adoption as the tech allows users to bypass the use of seed phrases and signing for certain transactions and would generally increase the user experience on Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains. <\/p>\n

Using figures from account abstraction data platform BundleBear, Rising claimed monthly account retention had been \u201cterrible\u201d with just 6.89% of all the initial smart accounts having stuck around for more than six months.<\/p>\n

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Retention is terrible.<\/p>\n

The one exception to this is CyberConnect, who had a lot of users return to claim an airdrop.<\/p>\n

Data: @0xBundleBear<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/TUzQQJYcp8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 John Rising (@johnrising_) November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rising also highlighted that bundlers \u2014 core infrastructure components that allow smart accounts to function on EVM-compatible chains \u2014 were largely unprofitable despite some projects accidentally paying \u201ctoo much\u201d in gas to the bundlers. <\/p>\n

Additionally, the average smart account was found to have only sent five user operations \u2014 the execution of transactions or activities from the account. <\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>Fireblocks, UniPass Wallet tackle Ethereum ERC-4337 account abstraction vulnerability<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Coinbase protocols lead and Base creator Jesse Pollak pushed back on Rising\u2019s description of the numbers as \u201csobering\u201d \u2014 claiming instead that the adoption of the new technology would happen \u201cslowly, then suddenly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust seems very early. Growth seems to be healthy, standardization seems to be happening,\u201d Pollak said. \u201cMore and more teams I\u2019m talking to are making the jump.\u201d<\/p>\n

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fwiw, this doesn’t feel sobering to me – just seems very early. growth seems to be healthy, standardization seems to be happening, more and more teams i’m talking to are making the jump. <\/p>\n

slowly, then suddenly :)https:\/\/t.co\/F7sU4xUqbD<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) \ufe0f (@jessepollak) November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dune analytics data showed August was the largest month for active account abstraction wallets with over 420,000 active smart accounts across seven blockchains.<\/p>\n

The number of monthly active smart accounts. Source: Dune Analytics<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Active smart accounts have been on a somewhat steady decline with 143,000 monthly active accounts recorded in October.<\/p>\n

Magazine: <\/em><\/strong>Slumdog billionaire \u2014 Incredible rags-to-riches tale of Polygon\u2019s Sandeep Nailwal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n