#EthereumAndBaseSplitOnAccountAbstraction
Ethereum and Base are taking different roads on account abstraction, and I think the important part is not the word “split” — it is why the two sides are choosing different designs.

The joint effort around account abstraction has broken down, with Ethereum moving forward with EIP-8141, Frame Transactions, while Base is pursuing EIP-8130, Keystore Accounts. Both proposals are still drafts, so this is not a final protocol-level separation. But the direction is becoming much clearer.

The goal behind both designs is actually quite similar.

Users should eventually be able to do things that feel normal in Web2: batch transactions, use alternative ways to pay gas, improve wallet recovery and authentication, and make smart-account interactions much less complicated.

The disagreement is more about how that future should be built.

Ethereum’s EIP-8141 takes a frame-based approach where transaction validation, execution and gas payment can be defined through contract calls. It is designed around stronger protocol-level guarantees, including alternative fee payment and future cryptographic flexibility.

EIP-8130 takes a different route. Its keystore model separates account configuration and authentication from the account itself, while supporting custom authenticators, batching and gas sponsorship. The proposal also explicitly considers different adoption profiles for L1 and L2 environments.

That difference makes sense when you look at the networks themselves.

Ethereum L1 has to think about consensus, security and what can safely become part of the base protocol for everyone. Base has more room to optimize around scalability, wallet experience and the needs of applications operating on an L2.

So I would not immediately call this a failure.

In fact, there is an argument that independent experimentation could be healthier than forcing one standard too early.

The risk is what happens to wallets and developers if these implementations become meaningfully different.

If a wallet has to understand multiple account-abstraction systems, developers may need additional compatibility layers. Users could eventually see different wallet behavior depending on whether they are interacting with Ethereum or Base.

That is where fragmentation becomes a real concern.

But there is another side that I find more interesting.

EIP-8130 itself puts significant emphasis on portability. Its design says accounts can remain portable across EVM-compatible chains, while wallets targeting the canonical authenticator set can maintain a common baseline. So the current divergence does not automatically mean users will end up with two completely isolated wallet ecosystems.

For Ethereum, this could actually become a useful test.

If EIP-8141 gives L1 stronger native account-abstraction capabilities while Base experiments with a more flexible implementation, the ecosystem gets two different approaches competing in the real world.

The winner should not be decided by the loudest announcement.

It should be decided by wallet adoption, developer experience, security and how invisible the complexity becomes for ordinary users.

My view right now is independent innovation with a fragmentation risk, not an Ethereum-versus-Base breakup.

Both networks still want better wallets and smoother transactions.

The question is whether they can eventually make those different technical choices feel like one seamless Ethereum ecosystem to the user.

That is the part I will be watching.

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