Stablecoin payment "dark horse" GasFree: Stablecoins can directly pay Gas fees, with "Gas" transfers accumulating over 138.5 billion USD

In the stablecoin payment sector, the "GasFree" transfer solution is rapidly becoming an industry "dark horse" with astonishing growth. According to the latest data from September 14, GasFree has processed nearly $138.5 billion in stablecoin transfers and over 8.06 million transactions within just a year and a half since its launch, serving more than 450,000 users and saving global users nearly $8.72 million in transaction fees.

In August alone, GasFree's monthly transfer volume reached $13.62 billion, with over 818,000 transactions—equivalent to more than 1,100 transactions and nearly $20 million in stablecoins completed through GasFree every hour, with growth momentum continuing to accelerate.

GasFree was launched by the core DeFi infrastructure of the TRON ecosystem, JUST. The so-called "GasFree" transfer means that users do not need to hold any native tokens (such as TRX) to complete transfers, allowing the required network gas fees to be deducted from the transfer tokens, truly achieving a seamless experience of "transfer equals gas payment."

As the transfer volume grows rapidly, GasFree's product capabilities are also continuously upgrading. In August, GasFree officially added support for "GasFree" transfers for the USDD stablecoin, thus fully covering the two major stablecoin assets, USDT and USDD, on the TRON blockchain.

In addition to continuous improvement in product capabilities, the integration with leading platforms is also accelerating. On September 7, Binance Wallet, a Web3 wallet under the global leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, officially launched the gas payment feature for TRON stablecoins (TRC-20 USDT), which is technically supported by GasFree.

From zero to over $138.5 billion in transfer volume, from single asset support to full coverage of two mainstream stablecoins, from internal ecosystem validation to integration with leading platforms, GasFree's growth is not a short-term spike in traffic but a structural transformation aimed at the underlying experience of crypto payments. When "holding stablecoins allows for direct transfers" becomes the industry default experience, the user threshold for stablecoin payments will be further lowered, and GasFree is becoming a core driving force in redefining global stablecoin payment standards.

GasFree's Journey: From Zero to Over $138.5 Billion in One and a Half Years, Reshaping the Stablecoin Payment Experience with Gas-Free Transfers

Since its official launch at the end of March 2025, the "GasFree" transfer solution has grown from zero to become a phenomenal player in the stablecoin payment sector in just a year and a half. According to the "TRON 2026 Q2 Report" released by CryptoQuant, in the first week of May 2026, GasFree processed a record $3 billion in USDT transfers in a single week.

In fact, as early as April 2026, both the user base and transfer volume of GasFree entered an acceleration phase, with a clear and strong growth curve: the monthly transfer volume stabilized above $10 billion, the monthly transaction count maintained between 700,000 and 800,000, and the user count saw a net growth of about 30,000 to 40,000 each month.

Notably, during the sixth anniversary of the JUST ecosystem in May this year, a "JUST Sixth Anniversary × GasFree Super Carnival Month" event was launched (from May 18 to June 18), providing users with the opportunity to experience gas-free transfers without TRX. After the event ended, the transfer volume and transaction count in July and August not only did not decline but continued to rise—this clearly indicates that users were retained by the gas-free transfer experience, and the growth is not a result of short-term promotional activities but rather driven by structural growth in product experience.

As of September 14, GasFree has achieved over $138.5 billion in stablecoin transfer volume and processed over 8.06 million transactions in just a year and a half, making it a star project in the stablecoin payment sector.

The rapid growth of GasFree essentially addresses the long-standing core pain point in crypto payments—the native token barrier. In traditional on-chain transfer models, users must manage two types of assets to complete a crypto asset transfer: one as the transfer asset and the other as the corresponding public chain's native token (such as TRX for TRON, ETH for Ethereum, BNB for BNB Chain, SOL for Solana) to pay for network gas fees. This effectively splits a complete payment action into two separate operations: "prepare native tokens + initiate transfer."

As a result, new users often get stuck at the last step of the transfer due to "not having native tokens in their wallet," while existing users also need to perform additional operations to allocate gas fee assets. For the most mainstream TRC20-USDT, even if a user has plenty of USDT in their wallet, they cannot complete any on-chain transfer without TRX. Users not only need to understand unfamiliar technical concepts like "Gas" but also learn to purchase native tokens and manage multi-currency balances; any hiccup in the process can lead to transfer failures. The smoothness of on-chain transfers has always had a significant disconnect from the intuitive experience of traditional finance, where "you can transfer money with just a click."

To address this industry pain point, GasFree provides an effective solution through "fee abstraction" technology, fundamentally reconstructing the interaction logic of on-chain payments. The innovative mechanism of "transfer tokens directly paying for gas fees" allows users to complete crypto asset on-chain transfer transactions without holding any network native tokens, truly achieving "instant transfer and payment, one-click completion," and redefining the crypto asset transfer experience.

In simple terms, GasFree allows the service provider to pay the network gas fees upfront, and after the transaction is successful, the corresponding service fee is directly deducted from the transfer asset, with users not needing to hold native tokens like TRX throughout the process.

Currently, GasFree fully supports gas-free transfers for the two major stablecoins, USDT and USDD. This means that whether users transfer USDT or USDD, the transaction fees will be automatically deducted from the corresponding transfer asset—sending USDT deducts gas from USDT; sending USDD deducts gas from USDD, with no need to prepare additional native tokens like TRX.

Users can quickly access GasFree through the official TRON wallet, TronLink—simply open the TronLink App or browser extension, click the "GasFree" green logo to enter the corresponding wallet interface, with no additional downloads required, making the operation simple and convenient.

In terms of usage mechanism, GasFree adopts an "activation once, valid long-term, dual-currency universal" account model: users need to complete account activation before the first use, and after activation, they can use the gas-free transfer service for all supported assets long-term. Currently, users only need to activate one of the two assets, USDT or USDD, to unlock the transfer functions for both major stablecoins.

In terms of the fee system, GasFree adopts a fixed pricing mechanism, setting the account activation fee and transfer fee for USDT at 1.5 USDT per transaction; the activation fee for USDD is 1 USDD, and the transfer fee is 0.5 USDD per transaction. Regardless of the transfer amount, each fee is a fixed value, allowing users to clearly estimate transaction costs without worrying about the uncertainty of fees caused by gas fluctuations.

In terms of cost advantages, compared to traditional on-chain transfer models, GasFree can significantly reduce transaction costs. According to on-chain data from September 8, 2026: the gas cost for a single transaction using traditional on-chain TRC20-USDT transfers can reach $2.18, while GasFree charges only 1.5 USDT per transaction regardless of the amount, highlighting a significant cost advantage.

The GasFree model effectively breaks the industry's default rule that "users must hold specific native tokens to pay gas fees," merging the previously fragmented "prepare native tokens + initiate transfer" multi-step operation into a complete payment action. This experiential logic aligns closely with the familiar traditional financial payment experience—just like in mobile payments, where transaction fees are directly deducted from the transaction amount, users perceive "transaction costs" rather than unfamiliar technical terms like "gas fees" or "energy fees."

Backed by TRON's Trillion Stablecoin Ecosystem, GasFree Leads a New Era of Stablecoin Payments

The rapid growth of GasFree is deeply rooted in the robust foundation of TRON's trillion-level stablecoin ecosystem. As the world's leading public chain for stablecoins, TRON's comprehensive advantages in asset scale, user base, and ecological scenarios provide a continuous demand foundation and growth space for GasFree's gas-free transfer services.

In terms of stablecoin asset scale, the total amount of stablecoins on the TRON blockchain has exceeded $95 billion, accounting for over 31% of the global stablecoin total market value (approximately $305.1 billion). Among them, TRON leads significantly in USDT assets, which occupy over 60% of the global stablecoin market: the on-chain USDT supply has exceeded $94.2 billion, accounting for 51% of the total USDT supply across the network, far surpassing Ethereum's $88.3 billion, and is rapidly approaching the $100 billion mark, making it the public chain with the largest USDT supply globally, processing over $20 billion in transfers daily.

At the same time, TRON's second-largest native stablecoin, USDD, is also growing rapidly, with a total supply exceeding $1.5 billion, maintaining a position among the top fifteen stablecoins globally.

At the user scale level, the user base of the TRON network is also continuously rising. On August 23, the total number of global accounts on TRON officially surpassed 400 million—just over a year after breaking the 300 million mark in April 2025. This massive user base provides a broad potential user pool for GasFree.

In terms of ecological scenarios, TRON has a complete DeFi and AI ecosystem, allowing stablecoins to be more than just mediums for payment and transfer; they are endowed with rich value-added and application scenarios. For example, in the DeFi field, SUN.io supports stablecoin purchases of any asset and liquidity mining, while JustLend DAO provides collateral lending and interest-earning services, among others. In the AI field, B.AI supports USDT and USDD for payments to top domestic and international AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Kimi, while Bank of AI plans to support assets like USDT for economic settlements between AI agents in the future. These scenarios make stablecoins ecological assets with real utility, and GasFree's gasless transfer experience runs through the entire user operation chain, further amplifying its value.

More importantly, the gasless transfers brought by GasFree not only upgrade the experience but also represent a paradigm shift in crypto payments. When gas fees disappear from users' awareness, the transfer process achieves a truly intuitive experience close to traditional finance—stablecoin transfers become as simple and smooth as Web2 payments. This is a key step in driving stablecoins from the crypto-native sphere to the global financial stage.

This is not a niche functional optimization but directly addresses the core pain points of the entire crypto payment industry. CryptoQuant has explicitly pointed out in a report: "The GasFree transaction volume indicates that fee abstraction is not a niche convenience feature but the core driving force behind application activity on TRON, allowing projects to attract a large number of users who only hold USDT."

Looking at the entire industry, stablecoins are in a phase of explosive growth, with application boundaries continuously expanding: from the initial medium of crypto trading, rapidly extending to broader financial scenarios such as payments, remittances, and cross-border settlements. The stablecoin payment track is evolving from an exclusive tool for cryptocurrencies to the underlying infrastructure of global mainstream finance and cross-border settlements.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has pointed out that stablecoins are reshaping the global payment system—they make international payments faster and cheaper, increasingly competing directly with traditional payment providers. It is reported that by 2025, the total on-chain transaction volume of stablecoins will reach $33 trillion, while Visa and Mastercard will process $18 trillion and $12.5 trillion, respectively. The annual transaction volume of stablecoins as a single category has already surpassed the combined total of the two traditional payment giants; as the adoption of stablecoins in payments, remittances, and institutional settlements accelerates, this gap will continue to widen in 2026.

In this industry context, the gasless payment model represented by GasFree precisely hits the core demand for stablecoins to go mainstream, becoming a key driving force for stablecoins to evolve from crypto assets into global mainstream payment infrastructure.

Backed by the robust soil of TRON's hundred billion-level stablecoin ecosystem, combined with the collaborative support of diverse application scenarios such as DeFi and AI, as well as continuous iteration and refinement of its products, GasFree's growth momentum will accelerate.

GasFree's ecological landscape continues to expand: from USDT to USDD dual stablecoin coverage, integrating Binance Web3 wallet to open mainstream entry points

As the user scale and transfer volume grow rapidly, GasFree's product capabilities and ecological layout are also accelerating expansion: the product side has upgraded from single USDT support to full coverage of dual mainstream stablecoins, USDT + USDD, continuously improving the asset landscape. On the ecological side, a full-channel entry matrix of "CEX exchanges + wallets" has been constructed—on one hand, mainstream centralized exchanges (CEX) like Binance and OKX have achieved two-way asset interoperability, while on the other hand, partnerships with dozens of industry-leading wallets have broadened usage scenarios. Recently, through deep technical integration with Binance's Web3 wallet, Binance Wallet, it has further opened up entry points for tens of millions of mainstream crypto users.

In terms of asset service capabilities, GasFree has taken the lead in launching USDT gasless transfer services—when users transfer USDT, all network gas fees can be directly deducted from the transferred USDT, eliminating the need to pre-allocate any native tokens like TRX in the wallet, truly achieving "zero native tokens" for completing stablecoin on-chain transactions.

As user demands continue to diversify, GasFree's asset landscape is also steadily expanding. On August 17, GasFree officially added support for the USDD stablecoin. From now on, when users transfer USDD, they can also use USDD itself to pay network gas fees without needing to hold additional native tokens (TRX). This also marks that GasFree has completed comprehensive coverage of the two core stablecoins in the TRON ecosystem, taking its product capabilities to a new level.

Currently, on the TRON chain, whether users are transferring USDT or USDD, there is no need to hold any TRX native tokens; the on-chain gas fees can be automatically deducted using the stablecoin being transferred.

As of now, in the TRON network, whether users initiate on-chain transfers of USDT or USDD, they do not need to hold any TRX native tokens in advance; they can directly use the stablecoin itself to pay for on-chain gas fees, significantly lowering the operational threshold throughout the process.

While continuously improving asset coverage and cost advantages on the product side, GasFree's ecological layout is also advancing rapidly. From asset interoperability at exchanges to full coverage of multiple wallet scenarios, the ecological side is making multiple breakthroughs, continuously expanding mainstream user entry points, allowing the gasless transfer experience to reach a broader user base.

At the exchange level, GasFree has achieved seamless interoperability with mainstream centralized exchanges like Binance and OKX, supporting two-way circulation of TRC20-USDT deposits and withdrawals: users can withdraw TRC20-USDT from the exchange to a GasFree address, or recharge USDT from GasFree back to the exchange. Regardless of the transfer amount, each transaction fee is uniformly set at 1.5 USDT, making fund transfers flexible and convenient.

At the wallet ecosystem level, GasFree has formed a multi-channel entry layout of "official wallet + mainstream third-party wallets," covering dozens of industry-leading wallets from the TRON official ecosystem wallet TronLink to Klever, Guarda, eDir, NOW Wallet, etc., catering to different user habits.

Recently, the deep technical integration with Binance Web3 wallet (Binance Wallet) marks a significant milestone for GasFree, transitioning from a "niche innovative solution" to "mainstream payment infrastructure." On September 7, Binance Wallet officially launched a new feature for gas payment using TRC20-USDT tokens, which is supported by GasFree's technology.

Currently, when users transfer TRC20-USDT on the TRON chain using Binance Web3 wallet, they no longer need to hold TRX as network fees; they can directly use the transferred USDT to offset the required gas fees. Specifically, when users withdraw TRC20-USDT, they can select "USDT" as the payment option for network fees, and the system will automatically deduct 1.5 USDT as the transfer fee, with no need to hold or exchange TRX throughout the process.

As a Web3 wallet under a leading global CEX, Binance Wallet has tens of millions of users. GasFree's technical integration means that the gasless transfer experience will directly reach the mainstream crypto user base, further confirming the market's broad recognition of its model.

In just a year and a half since its launch, GasFree has increased its cumulative transfer amount from $0 to over $138.5 billion, expanding its asset support range from a single USDT to dual stablecoin coverage of USDT + USDD, and achieving comprehensive access from CEX trading platforms to dozens of mainstream wallets in its ecological network.

Today, GasFree has evolved from an innovative tool that addresses the single pain point of "transfers requiring additional native coins" to a core mainstream infrastructure in the stablecoin payment field, clearing the core barriers to the widespread adoption of stablecoins in terms of user experience. With the backing of TRON, the world's largest stablecoin public chain network, GasFree possesses the underlying momentum to lead a new era of stablecoin payments.

Looking to the future, GasFree will gradually expand support for more asset types, cover more public chain networks, and integrate more CEXs, wallets, and other ecological partners, continuously iterating and upgrading the gasless payment experience, maintaining its lead in the innovation track of stablecoin payment experiences, and bringing a more convenient and inclusive new landscape of crypto payments to global users.