Sui Launches Zero-Gas Stablecoin Transfers, Gains Fireblocks Support

On May 20, Sui officially announced the launch of "Gasless Stablecoin Transfers."

This is a 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 begins to roll out to validators, the cost of stablecoin transfers on the Sui network has now officially dropped to $0.

Currently, several major stablecoins support this feature, including USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY. The feature aims to simplify the payment process and eliminate one of the biggest friction points in the mass adoption of stablecoins: users having to hold another token for gas to complete transactions.

As an enterprise-grade platform safeguarding over $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, Fireblocks has integrated ahead of the official launch as part of the expansion of the Sui payment ecosystem. Additionally, numerous institutional custodians and retail-facing wallets will support gasless transactions at launch, allowing users to send specific stablecoins without needing to hold or spend SUI.

Sui's upcoming native gasless stablecoin transfer support enables users to send supported stablecoins without holding or spending SUI.

Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, stated: "Stablecoins are becoming a vital part of global finance, but the infrastructure around them still has unnecessary complexity. From the start, we believed people shouldn't be charged for moving their own money. With the launch of gasless stablecoin transfers, we are one step closer to making Sui a global payment rail, serving businesses, AI agents, and everyday consumers alike."

The support from Fireblocks 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 a trusted digital asset infrastructure.

Ran Goldi, Senior Vice President of Payments & Network at Fireblocks, said: "The future of payments will run on stablecoin rails, but the institutional experience still needs to catch up. Sui is making all the right choices. Gasless stablecoin transfers remove one of the biggest friction points for enterprises building on-chain payment flows and customer experiences."

Gasless stablecoin transfers represent a structural change in how single and batch peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers operate on the Sui mainnet. This is not a subsidy, an official sponsorship program, or a temporary marketing campaign. In a competitive market where margins dictate everything, this upgrade positions Sui as the default stablecoin infrastructure for enterprises looking to reduce complexity and operational costs, traders frustrated by transaction failures and fee friction, and AI agents that will automatically choose the "lowest cost path" for executing payments.

Since August 2025, the total volume of stablecoin transfers on Sui has surpassed $1 trillion, while its stablecoin ecosystem continues to expand rapidly across institutional, retail, and developer use cases. Sui's horizontal scaling architecture and object-centric model enable the network to support high-frequency payment activity 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 by significantly reducing processing costs, and gasless stablecoin transfers further build on this by eliminating issues related to gas pre-funding and volatility treasury management. The end result is simpler infrastructure for institutions and an operational and cost model truly suited for the agent economy and autonomous systems. Free transfers mean that gas fees will never exceed the payment amount itself, also making micropayments of any scale a reality.

The recent momentum of the Sui ecosystem further demonstrates the rapidly 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, further expanding institutional access to the Sui ecosystem. Meanwhile, major stablecoin projects, including the Sui Dollar (USDsui) issued by Bridge and the eSui Dollar (SuiUSDe) issued by Ethena, continue to expand Sui's digital dollar ecosystem, further solidifying its position as internet-scale financial infrastructure.

Gasless stablecoin transfers are now beginning to roll out on the Sui mainnet. To learn more about Sui Payments, please visit Sui Payments.

About Sui

Sui is positioned as a next-generation L1 blockchain designed to "move money as freely as a message," purpose-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 needed to build high-performance payment and financial applications, including instant agent payments. Learn more: http://sui.io.

About Fireblocks

Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure company, 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, treasury operations, and compliance reporting. Its services cover institutional finance, consumer digital experiences, banking, 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.