New Ethereum Proposal Aims to Allow Wallets to Permanently Disable EIP-7702 Delegation

TechFlow news, October 31, according to The Defiant, developer nicolashw submitted a draft Ethereum core improvement proposal on October 30, proposing to allow externally owned accounts (EOAs) to permanently disable the EIP-7702 delegation feature while retaining their original addresses, standard transfers, and contract call capabilities.

Unlike merely clearing the current delegation, this operation is irreversible and can prevent the account from authorizing smart contract code to act on its behalf in the future. However, this mechanism cannot prevent fund transfers after a private key leak, will not revoke existing token approvals, and may affect account recovery and asset access that rely on the delegation feature.

Currently, the draft proposal has not been merged and has not been assigned an official EIP number. If it is later adopted, it will still need to be activated through an Ethereum network upgrade.

Source: TechFlow