ZK Email ModuleSDK integration

TL;DR

• ZK Email’s private recovery module is now integrated with the ModuleSDK, allowing developers building on any ERC-7579-compliance smart account (inlc. Safe, ZeroDev, Biconomy, and more) to provide a trust minimized and private method for account recovery.
• Typically, developers use embedded wallet providers (e.g., Magic) or EOA guardians for recovery. These mechanisms are great but have limitations. The former places trust in a key management provider, and the latter has terrible UX. ZK Email provides a recovery mechanism that has superior web2-like UX and trustless properties due to the ZK proof generation and relayer systems being completely open source.
• Get started today with the ModuleSDK and your favorite ERC-7579 smart account.

Introduction

Web2 provides many great products and services. Ideally, web3 developers could leverage these systems to improve upon experiences being built with blockchain technology. However, this requires integration methods that prevent the introduction of new centralized intermediaries that undermine the core properties of onchain development.

This is one of the main drivers behind ZK Email. Enabling email DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signatures to be used as a source of self-attested data that can be verified onchain without any additional protocol or trusted third-party verifier. By using ZK proofs, ZK Email also ensures that important elements of the email data remain private when used to trigger onchain actions.

ZK Email has now integrated its Email Recovery module into the ModuleSDK to be used by any developer building on ERC-7579 smart accounts (including Safe, Biconomy, ZeroDev, Thirdweb, and many more).

ZK Email Recovery Module

Key management is an important but daunting job for any self-sovereign crypto owner. One of the most well-known benefits of smart accounts is key rotation, which allows for account recovery if the user’s key is lost or compromised. However, recovery is still fraught with problems. Who should be trusted as a guardian? Does this person have the appropriate key management processes and security in place?

Often, users prefer to trust themselves, adding secondary wallets (such as a hardware signer) or secure third-party services (such as the iCloud KeyChain) as guardians. With the ZK Email Recovery Module, users can now use an email address as a guardian without revealing the email address.

Trustless and Unstoppable

Importantly, ZK Email’s prover and relayer are open source. This ensures that no developer or user trusts the services that ZK Email provides for assurance that account recovery is always possible. Even if ZK Email’s services go down, any developer could pick up the mantle and run the prover and relay to ensure private email account recovery for its users.

Conclusion

Users need reliable recovery mechanisms that are trustless and unstoppable. Check out the ZK Email recovery system today by diving into the ModuleSDK docs.

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