Today's guest is Noam Hurwitz, an engineer at Alchemy who is playing a key role in building Alchemy's new account abstraction infrastructure. Alchemy on AA: www.alchemy.com/account-abstractionAlchemy: https://www.alchemy.comAlchemy University: https://university.alchemy.comFollow Noam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProbablyNoam 00:00 Intro 3:51 How Noam got into crypto 6:00 Noam’s take on the current Account Abstraction discourse 8:32 AA infrastructure overview 11:32 Walking through Alchemy’s bundler architecture 13:15 MEV and user operations 15:05 The ‘intent based architecture’ and the userOp mempool 18:05 The entry point contract 22:50 Paymaster contracts 25:24 What should application developers know about AA? 29:40 What do smart contract accounts enable? 32:41 Lessons from drafting an EIP and EIP 6900 37:16 Avoiding centralization around AA infrastructure 42:46 New security issues presented by AA 45:01 Noam’s advice on building APIs & developer products 49:15 Noam’s favorite technical implementations in the industry 50:54 Advice for those early in their career 52:48 How Noam hopes the industry evolves over the next decade