Sui Launches Gasless Stablecoin Transfers
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, May 20th, 2026 – Sui announced the launch of gasless stablecoin transfers, a new protocol-level feature enabling peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers without requiring users to hold SUI. This innovation reduces stablecoin transfer fees to $0.00.
The feature allows users and businesses to send supported stablecoins on Sui without incurring gas fees or managing a separate SUI token balance. The rollout to validators is underway.
Major stablecoins, including USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY, are supported. The feature aims to simplify payment workflows and eliminate the need to hold a separate token for transactions, a significant hurdle for stablecoin adoption.
Fireblocks, a platform securing over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, has integrated the new solution. Numerous institutional custodians and retail-facing wallets will also support gasless transactions at launch. This will allow users to send select stablecoins without holding or spending SUI on transaction fees.
“Stablecoins are becoming a core part of global finance, but the infrastructure around them still creates unnecessary complexity,” said Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui. “With gasless stablecoin transfers, we are one step closer in making Sui the global rail for payments, whether they are for businesses, AI agents, and consumers.”
Fireblocks’ support enhances the institutional accessibility of Sui’s payments infrastructure, enabling enterprises and financial service providers to securely manage stablecoin activity on the network.
“The future of payments will run on stablecoin rails, but the experience for institutions still needs to catch up,” said Ran Goldi, SVP Payments & Network at Fireblocks. “Sui is making all the right moves, with gasless stablecoin transfers that removes a major point of friction for enterprises building onchain payment flows and customer experiences.”
Structural Change
Gasless stablecoin transfers represent a structural change to how peer-to-peer transfers of supported stablecoins operate on Sui Mainnet. This is not a subsidy, sponsorship program, or temporary promotional initiative. In a competitive market, Sui aims to become the default stablecoin infrastructure for businesses seeking to reduce complexity and costs, traders seeking to avoid fees, and AI agents looking for the most cost-effective payment methods.
Since August 2025, Sui has surpassed $1 trillion in stablecoin transfer volume. Its stablecoin ecosystem has expanded across institutional, retail, and developer use cases. Sui’s architecture and object-centric design support high-frequency payment activity with predictable performance and low operational overhead, making it suitable for emerging payment applications, agentic commerce, and enterprise-grade financial systems.
These new protocol mechanisms reduce processing costs, and gasless stablecoin transfers eliminate gas pre-funding and volatile treasury management. This results in simpler infrastructure for institutions and a cost model that supports agentic commerce and autonomous systems. Free transfers ensure that gas fees never exceed the value of the payment, enabling micropayments at any scale.
Ecosystem Momentum
Recent momentum across the Sui ecosystem highlights the growing demand for scalable financial infrastructure and stablecoin-based payments. In 2026, four SUI exchange-traded products from 21Shares, Grayscale, and Canary Capital launched globally, expanding institutional access to the Sui ecosystem. Simultaneously, initiatives like Bridge-issued Sui Dollar (USDSui) and Ethena-issued eSui Dollar (SuiUSDe) have expanded Sui’s digital dollar ecosystem.
Gasless stablecoin transfers are now rolling out on Sui Mainnet.
About Sui
Sui is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain designed for scalable finance and global payments. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui offers builders the tools to create high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agentic payments.
About Fireblocks
Fireblocks is a digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations to build, manage, and grow their business on the blockchain. The platform streamlines stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, trading, accounting operations, and compliance reporting. Thousands of organizations trust Fireblocks to secure over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions across 150+ blockchains.
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