ZeroDev

• Name: ZeroDev
• URL: https://zerodev.app/
• Category: Kernel-centered smart-account middleware / hosted account-abstraction operations
• Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
• Summary: ZeroDev is Kernel plus a lot of hosted AA packaging. Kernel is the part worth keeping in view. The rest is sponsorship, recovery, automation, and chain-routing ops. Useful, but still middleware.
• What it does:
  • Provides a smart-account platform that can be used as a standalone embedded account layer or alongside wallet-as-a-service providers such as Privy and Dynamic
  • Supports passkeys and social-account signers, account recovery, gas sponsorship, ERC-20 gas payments, transaction batching, session-key automation, and chain-abstraction flows
  • Maintains Kernel, a modular smart account compatible with ERC-4337 and ERC-7579 plugins, along with related SDKs, plugins, passkey tooling, and relay/supporting repos in its public GitHub organization
  • Positions smart-account permissions and session-key style automation for AI agents and other delegated-execution use cases
  • Publishes extensive standards-adjacent docs and examples around account abstraction, passkeys, permissions, session keys, and migration paths such as EIP-7702
• Key claims:
  • ZeroDev docs describe the platform as “the most powerful smart account solution,” with support for both ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 plus passkeys, gas abstraction, automation, and chain abstraction
  • Official docs say ZeroDev powers more than 6 million smart accounts on 50+ networks for 200+ teams
  • Kernel’s public repository says the account is ERC-4337-compatible, modular via ERC-7579 plugins, and highly gas-efficient; it also notes broad support across major AA SDKs
  • ZeroDev’s product docs explicitly tie session-key automation to AI-agent use cases and present the stack as a fit for both embedded accounts and WaaS-assisted products
  • The GitHub organization reinforces that ZeroDev is shipping concrete infrastructure components, including docs, SDKs, plugins, passkey server tooling, and relay/omni SDK repos
• Whitepaper: No classic whitepaper or litepaper was found during this pass. The strongest primary materials were the official site, docs introduction, llms.txt docs index, Kernel repository, and public GitHub organization; see ../whitepapers/zerodev-primary-sources-2026-04-25.md.
• Sources:
  • https://zerodev.app/
  • https://docs.zerodev.app/
  • https://docs.zerodev.app/llms.txt
  • https://github.com/zerodevapp
  • https://github.com/zerodevapp/kernel

Internal linkages

• Best upward anchors for the modular smart-account branch: offchain-labs, safe, and biconomy.

Control surface

• Kernel is the part worth reading.

• The leverage still piles up around module defaults, recovery design, sponsorship and relay choices, and which session or automation patterns get first-class tooling.

• Keep the product/company split explicit: this note is the smart-account product surface, while offchain-labs is the broader implementation and distribution boundary.

• Keep Kernel in view and treat the rest as hosted wallet middleware.

• This is Kernel-centered operator packaging, not some clean new account primitive.

• Last reviewed: 2026-06-14 UTC