EIP-8130 aims to unify account standards for Ethereum’s EVM

A new Ethereum Improvement Proposal wants to make account abstraction actually work the same way everywhere. EIP-8130, drafted by Chris Hunter of Coinbase/Base, introduces a universal account standard designed to bring consistent authentication, gas sponsorship, and call batching to every EVM-compatible chain, not just the ones that happened to implement their own flavor of smart accounts.

How it works

At its core, EIP-8130 introduces a new transaction type, designated AA_TX_TYPE = 0x79, paired with an onchain Keystore contract deployed at a fixed address. Think of the Keystore as a universal settings panel for your account. It stores your authentication preferences onchain so that any compliant EVM chain can read them.

Instead of requiring nodes to simulate entire wallet bytecode to verify a transaction, EIP-8130 separates authentication from account logic entirely. Nodes validate transactions using a fixed set of canonical authenticators, enabling what the proposal describes as O(1) checks without full EVM tracing.

The canonical authenticators baked into the proposal include secp256k1/k1 (Ethereum’s existing signature scheme), P-256 (used by Apple and Google secure enclaves), WebAuthn (the standard behind passkeys), and a delegate authenticator. That last one enables use cases where one account can authorize transactions on behalf of another.

Two profiles, one standard

EIP-8130 defines two adoption profiles. Level 1 is designed for Ethereum mainnet and similarly structured chains. It uses a normative gas schedule and permissive acceptance, meaning it’s more flexible about which authenticators and account configurations it will process.

Level 2 is built for high-throughput chains like Base and other L2 rollups. It restricts validation to a canonical-only pathway, sacrificing some flexibility for predictable performance at scale.

The proposal also maintains backward compatibility through an ERC-4337 fallback mechanism. Chains that haven’t adopted EIP-8130 natively can still process these accounts through the existing ERC-4337 infrastructure, making the standard fully portable without requiring protocol-level changes on every chain.

The backers and the timeline

Base, Coinbase, Optimism, and WalletConnect are all listed among its backers. The proposal claims a 63% reduction in transfer costs compared to the existing ERC-4337 model.

Base is targeting its Cobalt upgrade in September 2026 as the vehicle for deploying EIP-8130. That gives the proposal roughly a year from its October 2025 drafting date to move through discussion, iteration, and testing. The proposal currently sits in draft status, with active discussions happening on Ethereum Magicians and GitHub.

EIP-8130 builds on several prior EIPs, including EIP-2718 (typed transaction envelopes) and EIP-4337 itself.

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