Introducing Privy’s native gas sponsorship
Making transactions seamless by sponsoring fees across chains with a single toggle
Jainil Sutaria
|Sep 24, 2025
Every onchain transaction requires “pocket money” in the form of ETH, SOL, or another native token. These tokens are used to pay gas fees, a kind of congestion charge for using the chain. Gas compensates validators for securing the network and processing transactions, but for end users it often feels arbitrary and confusing.
For a number of years, gas has been one of the biggest sources of friction in crypto. It introduces new concepts (“why do I need ETH to send USDC?”), adds extra steps (“how do I fund this wallet before I can do anything?”), and forces developers to build additional funding flows. For users, this creates barriers at every turn, be it topping up with the right token just to complete a transaction, or abandoning it altogether when balances run short.
The result is clear: drop-off in user action and adoption. Gas slows down product experiences and distracts both developers and users from what really matters.
Today, Privy is excited to roll out native gas sponsorship. Apps can now pay for fees on behalf of their users directly through Privy embedded wallets, making gas effectively invisible, and eliminating it as a non-starter for user actions.
What’s new
Any app using Privy can now:
Enable sponsorship with a single toggle in the dashboard
Choose which EVM and SVM chains to cover
Send sponsored transactions through the same RPC or SDK flows they already use — just add "sponsor": true
Sponsorship integrates seamlessly with Privy’s billing system, ensuring costs are accurately tracked and managed. It is also fully compatible with the rest of Privy’s infra: policies, webhooks, and cross-app support.
This is a major step forward from our earlier smart wallet–based approach, which required separate contract accounts, or configuring additional tooling. By making gas sponsorship native to Privy itself, it becomes available to every developer building with embedded wallets while remaining chain-agnostic and configurable directly from the dashboard.
Already tested in production
We’ve been testing native sponsorship with a number of key customers over the past few months, validating real-world flows and developer needs. In fact, more than 50 applications have already sponsored over 140,000 transactions for their users.
Through that testing, we’ve iterated on the design and incorporated user feedback — from how developers configure sponsorship in the dashboard, to how billing and policies are surfaced. The result is a feature that’s been proven in production and is now ready for every app building on Privy.
One of those early adopters is Bankr, a leading AI agent that allows you to trade, research, and manage crypto both from within X and through its own private terminal.
"Gas sponsorship is a big deal for onboarding the next wave of people to crypto. Shoutout to the Privy team, who have been great partners in making this entire process seamless." — 0xDeployer, founder of Bankr
Start enabling gas sponsorship today
Native gas sponsorship is now available to every app building on Privy. Whether you’re a fintech looking to abstract away gas for stablecoin payments, or a consumer app wanting to remove friction from onboarding and trading, you can turn it on in just a few steps:
Go to the Gas Sponsorship tab in your Privy Dashboard.
Enable sponsorship and select the chains you want to support.
Send transactions as usual: just add "sponsor": true.
For more details on how to implement, please refer to our docs.
We’re excited to see what you’ll unlock with native gas sponsorship. Whether it’s smoother onboarding to new product experiences, we look forward to seeing how you use Privy to deliver seamless, self-custodial experiences at scale.
