Nichanan Kesonpat is a researcher and investor at 1kx, a cryptonative fund investing in early stage projects across the web3 stack and verticals. Nich is focused on middleware where her research expands across wallet infrastructure, developer tooling, data infrastructure and decentralized identity. Before 1kx she was a smart contract developer (Upstate Interactive acq. DCG Foundry, mochi.game) working on projects across NFTs, DeFi, and DAO tooling.

Nichanan Kesonpat

In this talk I will give an overview of how wallet infrastructure and the relationship between wallets and dapps have evolved over the past 5 years. And give a layer-by-layer breakdown of the modern wallet stack from signers to smart account modules, how each component contributes to a UX unlock on Ethereum/L2s, and how application developers can use them today. We will also touch on pertinent ongoing EIPs such as 7702 (deploy code for EOAs), and 7715 (permissions).