Glossary

A glossary of common terms used in ERC-6900 documentation.

  • ERC-4337: community standard for Account Abstraction authored by the Ethereum Foundation. All smart accounts implement this standard interface. It also defines standard for the Bundler, Paymasters, and Entrypoint.

  • ERC-6900: community standard for Modular Smart Accounts. Defines a standard interface for smart accounts to install plugins.

  • Smart Account: an individual onchain account located at a public address like 0x12...abcd where an ERC-4337 smart contract account is deployed. This address is controlled by one or more owners of the smart contract account.

  • MSCA: Modular smart contract account. Synonymous with modular account. Most often refers to a smart account that is compatible with ERC-6900.

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