Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, has taken Smart Account Infrastructure Provider Zerodev into a movement that signals its ambitions that goes beyond the scale infrastructure.
The deal, which brings the five -person team of Zerodev completely in Offchain Labs, represents what CEO Steven Goldfeder “calls a very logical next iteration” of the company’s mission.
Offchain Labs, founded in 2018, initially concentrated on scaling Ethereum with optimistic roles. But Goldfeder says that the broader goal has always been “to solve the most difficult problems that stand in the way of blockchain technology for mass acceptance.”
In that light, the acquisition is not a pivot point, Goldfeder told Blockworks. ‘We started [with] Low two, we went to Layer One, and now we are going a little further up … in the smart contract layer, “he said.” We can have these tools work together seamlessly. “
Zerodev, whose platform Smart Account infrastructure for projects such as Apchain, Infinex and Crosssmint neatly fits in, fits neatly in that stack-wide ambition. “They are the leaders, the innovators in the smart account space,” said Goldfeder. “It fit very well with the profile of our team.”
With smart accounts that make functions possible, such as gas abstraction, programmable security and automated transactions, Offchain sees them as crucial for the next Golf users uniddened. According to Goldfeder, the challenge today is not only the technology, but also the broken developer experience; He marked “Wallet Integration and Wallet Support” as a bottleneck.
“Often the user experience does not seamlessly contract this in a way that is taken away from the user,” said Goldfeder.
He offered a well-known metaphor: “When I go on YouTube to watch a video, I don’t get a pop-up that says:” Do you want to watch this video on AWS or on GCP? ” I just want to watch my video. “
Chain fragmentation remains a UX nuisance, even within the arbitrum ecosystem. “If I am a user at Arbitrum One and I want to buy an NFT on Apechain … The gas on Arbitrum is ETH, the gas on Apchain is monkey, maybe I keep ARB, but there are just many manual steps.”
Zerodev’s smart account tooling can help to streamline this and others of the “more difficult problems”.
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