Today’s guest is Richard Meissner, co founder & CTO at Safe. Richard is an expert on all things smart contract wallets, and we used this episode to go deep into account abstraction. In particular, we discussed the Safe contract architecture and how things like Safe modules & smart contract wallets work under the hood. The Safe team has rolled out a ton of new libraries & tech that make supporting smart contract wallets and AA a breeze, and we discussed them as well.

00:00 Intro

3:55 How Richard got into the industry

8:31 The Safe contract architecture

14:13 Safe modules

17:11 Misconceptions and account abstraction

20:45 ERC 4337 Infrastructure 

23:11 How app developers can make proper use of smart contract wallets

25:45 What does the ecosystem need to do to enable better UX?

29:50 Solving the YOLO signing problem

36:37 The Safe Core Suite

42:30 Frictionless onboarding 

50:08 How Richard & the Safe team approach smart contract security

56:00 Advice for early career devs

59:45 What does Richard hope our industry looks like in 10 years?

Safe Core: https://twitter.com/safe/status/1630946737220141062
Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rimeissner