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Spend Permissions enable apps to spend native and ERC-20 tokens on behalf of users.
SpendPermissionManager: 0x6Bb91a81aa8C4edDBe04c774015279445fE68B5A
PublicERC6492Validator: 0x111c9102952eEA29b02297E9ee4b8DB6265e763e
While implementing this feature as a new V2 wallet implementation was tempting, we decided to leverage the modular owner system from Smart Wallet V1 and avoid a hard upgrade.
Spend Permissions only supports spending Native (e.g. ETH) and ERC-20 (e.g. USDC) tokens on a recurring period. This enables use cases like subscriptions out of the box (e.g 10 USDC per month) and also can support apps that want to avoid asking users for spend permissions every session.
This approach does not enable apps to make arbitrary external calls from user accounts, improving security by having a tighter and fully-known scope of account control.
Spend Permissions allow users to delegate token spending to a spender address, presumably controlled by the app. When an app wants to spend user tokens, it calls into SpendPermissionManager from this spender address. SpendPermissionManager will then validate the spend is within the approved permission's allowance and calls into the user's account to transfer tokens.
This approach does not use the ERC-4337 EntryPoint to prompt external calls from user accounts, improving security by avoiding the possibility of ERC-4337 Paymasters spending users' tokens on gas fees.
Apps request spend permissions for users to sign by sending an eth_signTypedData RPC request containing the permission details.
Read more details here.
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant A as App
participant WF as Wallet Frontend
participant U as User
participant WB as Wallet Backend
A->>WF: eth_signTypedData
WF->>U: approve permission
U-->>WF: signature
WF->>WB: get account status
WB-->>WF: deploy status, initCode, current + pending owners
alt account not deployed && manager in initCode
Note right of WF: wrap signature in ERC-6492
else manager not in initCode && manager not owner
WF->>U: add manager
U-->>WF: signature
end
WF-->>A: signature
Spenders (apps) spend tokens by calling SpendPermissionManager.spend with their spend permission values, a recipient, and an amount of tokens to spend.
Spenders may want to batch this call with an additionally prepended call to approve their permission via user signature unless the user has already approved the spend permission(s) directly via SpendPermissionManager.approve.
Read more details here.
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant S as Spender
participant PM as Permission Manager
participant A as Account
participant ERC20
alt
S->>PM: approveWithSignature
Note over PM: validate signature and store approval
else
A->>PM: approve
end
S->>PM: spend
Note over PM: validate permission approved <br> and spend value within allowance
PM->>A: execute
Note over PM,A: transfer tokens
alt token is ERC-7528 address
A->>S: call{value}()
Note over A,S: transfer native token to spender
else else is ERC-20 contract
A->>ERC20: transfer(spender, value)
Note over A,ERC20: transfer ERC-20 to spender
end
Users can revoke permissions at any time by calling SpendPermissionManager.revoke, which can also be batched via CoinbaseSmartWallet.executeBatch.
Read more details here.
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant E as Entrypoint
participant A as Account
participant PM as Permission Manager
Note over E: Validation phase
E->>A: validateUserOp
A-->>E: validation data
Note over E: Execution phase
E->>A: executeBatch
loop
A->>PM: revoke
Note over A,PM: SpendPermission data
end