Socket and ZeroDev come together to launch Magic Accounts. Magic Accounts enable unified balances across chains, zero bridging latency, and no need for native gas tokens

Socket, an interoperability protocol focused on secure cross-chain transfers, and ZeroDev, a smart account/account abstraction infrastructure provider, have jointly introduced Magic Accounts, a new smart account primitive designed to make balances feel unified across multiple blockchains and remove typical UX friction around bridging and gas. According to Socket’s announcement, Magic Accounts aim to give users a single balance view across chains, execute cross-chain actions without explicit bridges or waits, and let users transact without holding native gas tokens on each network. Under the hood, Magic Accounts build on ZeroDev’s ERC‑4337 smart accounts and paymaster tooling, which allow dapps to sponsor gas, batch transactions, and support social or passwordless logins while abstracting away key management and low-level transaction details. By combining this with Socket’s cross-chain routing and liquidity infrastructure, a transaction initiated from a Magic Account can be funded and settled across chains in the background, so the user interacts as if they had one wallet and one balance, even though assets and execution may be spread over several networks. This approach targets a major pain point in Web3 UX: users currently need to bridge assets, manage separate balances on each chain, and maintain native gas everywhere; Magic Accounts seek to hide that complexity while keeping transactions composable and programmable for developers. The launch matters for both developers and end users because it packages several emerging primitives—cross-chain intents, account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and smart wallets—into a single integration point. Developers can integrate Magic Accounts to offer a “Web2-like” onboarding and transaction flow, while still benefiting from decentralized settlement and modular infrastructure underneath. Strategically, it also reflects a broader industry shift toward intent-based and chain-abstracted UX, where users specify what they want to do (swap, pay, bridge, stake) and infrastructure like Socket and ZeroDev handles routing, execution, and gas management behind the scenes.

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More coverage

• ZeroDev Account Abstraction - Developer Docs | Magic (docs.magic.link)
• ZeroDev Account Abstraction - Magic Labs (magic.link)
• ZeroDev Smart Account Integration Guide for Arbitrum (docs.arbitrum.io)
• Use Magic with ZeroDev (docs.zerodev.app)
• ZeroDev Blog (docs.zerodev.app)

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