The Ethereum Foundation has made significant modifications to the account abstraction standard to reduce Gas consumption

The Ethereum Foundation will make significant modifications to the account abstraction standard in Ethereum to reduce gas consumption, especially for second-layer gas consumption.

 

On January 10th, the Ethereum Foundation shared a preview of major modifications to the ERC-4337 standard specification, which involves account abstraction, also known as smart accounts. The biggest change is the structure of account abstraction transactions, which are more complex than regular Ethereum transactions. These transactions now need to specify five gas values instead of just one.

 

This makes Gas estimation more accurate and reduces Gas costs because these changes decrease the amount of data that needs to be published. The new specifications will also impose a 10% penalty on all unused Gas during user execution, which can prevent applications from unnecessarily high Gas limits on transactions.