Julien Niset: Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction

Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:56 leaning into zk rollups and account abstraction
- 00:07:29 scaling the self-custody experience
- 00:13:20 what onboarding users to crypto will look like in 3 years
- 00:20:24 some of the friction points that still need to be abstracted
- 00:33:52 L2s and the trade-offs between different rollups
- 00:39:45 is breaking EVM-equivalency worth it?
- 00:48:01 Julien’s experience in the StarkNet ecosystem
- 00:58:24 a technical primer on account abstraction
- 01:15:38 session keys
- 01:28:17 starting a sensible wallet set up from scratch

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