ZeroDev

ZeroDev is the definitive smart account infrastructure platform for Web3 developers, founded in 2022 as part of Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch and acquired by Offchain Labs in August 2025. The platform enables developers to build applications with frictionless user experiences by abstracting away the complexity of blockchain interactions — including seed phrases, gas fees, transaction approvals, and multi-chain management.

Core Products/Services

ZeroDev is built around the Kernel, a minimal and extensible smart contract account that powers four core abstraction layers:

• Key Abstraction: Eliminates seed phrases by enabling social logins, biometrics, and Passkeys for account access and recovery. Supports signer abstraction, familiar authentication methods, and multi-factor security policies embedded directly into the smart account.
• Gas Abstraction: Removes the requirement for users to hold native gas tokens. Developers can sponsor transactions entirely (gasless UX) or allow users to pay fees in any ERC-20 token, powered by ZeroDev's proprietary UltraRelay and Paymaster infrastructure.
• Transaction Abstraction (Logic Abstraction): Enables transaction batching (multiple actions in a single UserOperation), Session Keys for automated and permissioned transactions, and ERC-7579 modular account logic including spending limits and automated payments.
• Chain Abstraction: Provides a unified multi-chain experience supporting 130+ EVM chains. Users maintain a single Smart Account across all chains with consistent security policies and gasless transactions everywhere.
• Smart Routing Address (SRA): A universal deposit gateway that generates a single persistent address to receive funds from any chain, CEX, or fiat onramp and route them to the target network — eliminating manual bridging entirely.

Key Strengths

ZeroDev co-authored ERC-7579 (the modular smart accounts standard) and sent the first ERC-4337 transaction on Ethereum in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation, establishing it as a standards-defining authority in account abstraction. The platform offers:

• Battle-tested infrastructure backed by Offchain Labs' engineering scale
• Maximum extensibility via ERC-7579 modularity with no vendor lock-in
• Industry-leading gas efficiency through the minimalist Kernel account design and proprietary UltraRelay bundler
• Support for 130+ blockchain networks including Arbitrum, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, zkSync, and more

Notable Clients/Projects

ZeroDev powers 5+ million smart accounts and has processed $2 billion+ in monthly volume across 300+ applications. Notable integrations include Gemini (Universal Smart Wallet using WebAuthn), Glider (cross-chain portfolio management), Lit Protocol (secure automation), Offramp (global stablecoin banking), and Kraken.

Why Choose ZeroDev

ZeroDev provides a complete, vertically integrated AA (account abstraction) stack — AA SDK, Bundler, Paymaster, and UltraRelay — as a unified platform. Developers get production-ready infrastructure from day one with tiered pricing from free to enterprise, comprehensive documentation, and direct team support. As a subsidiary of Offchain Labs (the team behind Arbitrum), ZeroDev offers institutional-grade reliability and engineering rigor for the most demanding applications.