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Account Abstraction
A blockchain design pattern that transforms user accounts into programmable smart contracts, enabling features like gas sponsorship, social recovery, session keys, and batched transactions. Account abstraction (popularized by Ethereum's ERC-4337) removes the requirement for users to hold native tokens for gas and dramatically improves the user experience of interacting with dApps.
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