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Gasless transaction

A transaction whose network fee is paid by a third party or deducted in tokens, so the user needs no native coin to transact.

Someone still pays gas; it is just not you directly. A relayer or paymaster submits the transaction and recovers the cost from the app's budget or from the tokens you are moving.

This removes a genuine onboarding barrier: needing native coin on a chain before you can touch anything you actually hold there. It is common on layer-2 networks and in account-abstraction wallets.

Read the terms, though. Sponsored flows require signing a message granting spending rights, and the fee taken in tokens can be well above the raw network cost. Check the effective rate before routing size through one.

Related: account-abstraction, smart-contract-wallet, gas-fee, token-approval

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