On May 20, Sui officially announced the launch of "Gasless Stablecoin Transfers".
This is a brand-new protocol-level feature that enables users and enterprises to send supported stablecoins on Sui without paying gas fees or managing a separate SUI token balance.
As this feature begins a gradual roll-out to validators, the transaction fee for stablecoin transfers on the Sui network has now officially been reduced to $0.
Currently, multiple major stablecoins are supported, including USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY. This feature aims to simplify the payment process and eliminate one of the biggest friction points in the mass adoption of stablecoins: users needing to hold another token for gas to complete a transaction.
As an enterprise-grade platform securing over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, Fireblocks has already completed integration ahead of the official launch, as part of Sui's payment ecosystem expansion. Furthermore, numerous institutional custodians and retail-facing wallets will support gasless transactions at launch, allowing users to send specific stablecoins without holding or spending SUI.
Sui's upcoming native support for gasless stablecoin transfers allows users to send supported stablecoins without needing to hold or consume SUI.
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, stated: "Stablecoins are becoming a major part of global finance, but the infrastructure around them remains unnecessarily complex. From the very beginning, we believed that people shouldn't be charged to move their own money. With the launch of Gasless Stablecoin Transfers, we are one step closer to making Sui a global payment rail for enterprises, AI agents, and everyday consumers alike."
Fireblocks' support further enhances the accessibility of Sui's payment infrastructure for institutions, enabling businesses and financial service providers to securely access and manage on-chain stablecoin activities through trusted digital asset infrastructure.
Ran Goldi, SVP of Payments & Network at Fireblocks, stated: "The future of payments will run on stablecoin rails, but the institutional-grade experience still needs to catch up. Sui is making all the right moves. Gasless Stablecoin Transfers removes one of the biggest friction points for businesses building on-chain payment flows and customer experiences."
Gasless Stablecoin Transfers represent a structural change in how both single and bulk peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers operate on the Sui mainnet. This is not a subsidy, an officially sponsored program, or a temporary marketing campaign. In a competitive market where margins are everything, this upgrade makes Sui the default stablecoin infrastructure for businesses wanting to reduce complexity and operational costs, for traders tired of transaction failures and fee friction, and for AI agents that automatically select the "lowest cost path" to execute payments.
Since August 2025, Sui's total stablecoin transfer volume has exceeded $1 trillion, while its stablecoin ecosystem continues to expand rapidly across institutional, retail, and developer use cases. Sui's horizontally scalable architecture and object-centric model enable the network to support high-frequency payment activities with predictable performance and low operational costs, making it ideal for new payment applications, the agent economy, and enterprise-grade financial systems.
These new protocol mechanisms achieve this goal by significantly reducing processing costs, and Gasless Stablecoin Transfers further eliminate the issues associated with gas pre-funding and volatile treasury management. The end result is simpler infrastructure for institutions and an operational and cost model that truly works for the agent economy and autonomous systems. Free transfers mean gas fees will never exceed the payment amount itself, making micropayments of any size a reality.
The recent momentum in the Sui ecosystem further reflects the rapidly growing market demand for scalable financial infrastructure and stablecoin payments. Already in 2026, three SUI Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) from 21Shares, Grayscale, and Canary Capital have launched globally, further expanding institutional access to the Sui ecosystem. Meanwhile, significant stablecoin projects, including Bridge's Sui Dollar (USDsui) and Ethena's eSui Dollar (SuiUSDe), continue to expand Sui's digital dollar ecosystem, reinforcing its position as internet-scale financial infrastructure.
Gasless Stablecoin Transfers have now begun a gradual roll-out on the Sui mainnet. To learn more about payments on Sui, please visit Sui Payments.
About Sui
Sui is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain positioned as "making money flow as freely as messages," built for scalable finance and global payments. Created by the core team behind Meta's stablecoin project and built on an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui provides Builders with everything they need to build high-performance payment and financial applications, including instant agentic payments. Learn more: http://sui.io .
About Fireblocks
Digital asset infrastructure company Fireblocks helps institutions of all sizes build, manage, and scale their businesses on the blockchain. Through the industry's most scalable and secure infrastructure platform, Fireblocks offers capabilities for stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, trading, financial operations, and compliance reporting. Its services span institutional finance, consumer digital experiences, banks, payment service providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges, and custodians. Thousands of institutions, including Worldpay, BNY, Galaxy, and Revolut, use Fireblocks to secure over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions across 150+ blockchains. Learn more: http://fireblocks.com .
