On May 20, Sui officially announced the launch of “Gasless Stablecoin Transfers.”
This is a brand-new protocol-level feature that enables users and businesses to send supported stablecoins on Sui without paying gas fees or managing a separate SUI token balance.
As this feature rolls out gradually to validation nodes, stablecoin transfer fees on the Sui network have officially been reduced to $0.
Currently, multiple leading stablecoins support this feature, including USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY. This feature aims to streamline payment processes and eliminate one of the biggest friction points in the mass adoption of stablecoins: the requirement for users to hold another token as gas to complete transactions.
As an enterprise platform securing over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, Fireblocks has completed integration prior to launch as part of the expansion of the Sui payment ecosystem. Additionally, numerous institutional custodians and retail-facing wallets will support zero-gas transactions at launch, enabling users to send specific stablecoins without holding or consuming SUI.
Sui’s upcoming native zero-gas stablecoin transfer support enables users to send supported stablecoins without holding or consuming SUI.
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, said: “Stablecoins are becoming a vital part of global finance, yet the infrastructure surrounding them remains unnecessarily complex. From the start, we believed that people should not be charged to move their own money. With the launch of zero-Gas stablecoin transfers, we are one step closer to making Sui a global payment rail—for businesses, AI agents, and everyday consumers alike.”
Fireblocks support further enhances Sui’s payment infrastructure’s accessibility for institutions, enabling enterprises and financial service providers to securely access and manage on-chain stablecoin activities through a trusted digital asset infrastructure.
Ran Goldi, Senior Vice President of Fireblocks Payments & Network, said: “The future of payments will run on stablecoin rails, but institutional-grade experiences still need to catch up. Sui is making all the right moves. Zero-gas stablecoin transfers eliminate one of the biggest friction points for businesses building on-chain payment flows and customer experiences.”
Zero-Gas stablecoin transfers represent a structural change in how “single and batch peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers” operate on the Sui mainnet—not a subsidy, official sponsorship program, or temporary marketing campaign. In a competitive market where margins determine success, this upgrade positions Sui as the default stablecoin infrastructure for businesses seeking to reduce complexity and operational costs, traders tired of failed transactions and fee friction, and AI agents that automatically select the lowest-cost path for payments.
Since August 2025, the total volume of Sui’s stablecoin transfers has surpassed $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 next-generation payment applications, agent economies, and enterprise-grade financial systems.
These new protocol mechanisms achieve this by significantly reducing processing costs, while zero-Gas stablecoin transfers further eliminate issues related to Gas pre-funding and volatility treasury management. The end result is that institutions gain a simpler infrastructure and a truly viable operational and cost model for agent-based economies and autonomous systems. Free transfers mean Gas fees will never exceed the payment amount itself, making microtransactions of any size a reality.
The recent momentum in the Sui ecosystem further underscores the growing market demand for scalable financial infrastructure and stablecoin payments. In 2026 alone, three SUI exchange-traded products (ETPs) from 21Shares, Grayscale, and Canary Capital have launched globally, expanding institutional access to the Sui ecosystem. Meanwhile, key stablecoin initiatives—including Bridge’s Sui Dollar (USDsui) and Ethena’s eSui Dollar (SuiUSDe)—are continuously expanding Sui’s digital dollar ecosystem and reinforcing its position as a financial infrastructure built for internet-scale adoption.
Zero-gas stablecoin transfers are now gradually rolling out on the Sui mainnet. Learn more about Sui Payments at Sui Payments.
About Sui
Sui is a next-generation L1 blockchain designed to “let money flow as freely as messages,” built for scalable finance and global payments. Created by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin project, Sui is built on an object-centric model that enables programmability and ownership of assets, permissions, and user data. Sui provides everything builders need to create high-performance payment and financial applications, including instant proxy payments. Learn more: http://sui.io
About Fireblocks
Fireblocks, a digital assets infrastructure company, enables institutions of all sizes to build, manage, and scale their businesses on blockchain. Through the industry’s most scalable and secure infrastructure platform, Fireblocks provides capabilities including stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, trading, financial operations, and compliance reporting. Its services serve institutional finance, consumer digital experiences, banks, payment processors, stablecoin issuers, exchanges, and custodians—thousands of institutions including Worldpay, BNY, Galaxy, and Revolut rely on Fireblocks to secure over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions across 150+ blockchains. Learn more: http://fireblocks.com