Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, May 20, 2026, Chainwire
A new protocol-level feature enables peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers on Sui without requiring users to hold SUI, bringing the current stablecoin transfer fee down to $0.00.
butWhere money moves as freely as messaging, today announced the launch of Gasless Stablecoin Transfers, a new protocol-level feature that enables users and businesses to send stablecoins backed on Sui without paying gas fees or managing a separate SUI token balance. With the feature now rolling out to validators, the stablecoin transfer fee is $0.00 on the Sui network.
With direct support from major stablecoins, including USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY, this feature is designed to simplify payment workflows and remove one of the biggest points of friction in mass adoption of stablecoins: the requirement to maintain a separate token to complete transactions.
Fire blocksThe enterprise platform, which secures more than $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, has integrated the new solution ahead of its rollout as part of the expansion of Sui’s broader payments ecosystem. Additionally, many institutional custodians and retail wallets will support non-invasive transactions at launch, enabling users to send select stablecoins without holding SUI or spending them on transaction fees.
“Stablecoins have become an essential part of global finance, but the infrastructure around them still creates unnecessary complexity,” said Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and CPO at Mysten Labs, an original Sui shareholder. “From the beginning, we’ve said it shouldn’t cost people fees to move their own money. And with gasless stablecoin transfers, we’re one step closer to making Sui the global railway for payments, whether for businesses, AI agents and consumers.”
Fireblocks support enhances institutional accessibility of Sui’s payments infrastructure by enabling institutions and financial service providers to securely access and manage stablecoin activity on the network through trusted digital asset infrastructure.
“The future of payments will run on stablecoin paths, but the enterprise experience still needs to catch up,” said Ran Goldy, senior vice president of payments and networks at Fireblocks. “Sui is making all the right moves, with gasless stablecoin transfers removing a major point of friction for organizations building on-chain payment flows and customer experiences.”
Gasless stablecoin transfers represent a structural change in how individual and bulk peer-to-peer transfers of supported stablecoins operate on the Sui Mainnet and are not a temporary support, sponsorship program or promotional initiative. In a competitive market where margins are everything, the launch positions Sui as a virtual stablecoin infrastructure for businesses looking to reduce complexity and overhead costs, traders tired of failed transactions or fee friction, and AI agents, who will objectively choose the cheapest path and least resistance to executing autonomous payments.
Since August 2025, Sui’s stablecoin transfer volume has exceeded $1 trillion, while its stablecoin ecosystem has continued to expand rapidly across institutional, retail, and developer use cases. Sui’s horizontally scalable architecture and object-centric design allow the network to support high-frequency payment activity with predictable performance and low operational overhead, making it well-suited for emerging payment applications, agent commerce, and enterprise-level financial systems.
These new protocol mechanisms work by dramatically lowering processing costs, and gasless stablecoin transfers build on this foundation to completely eliminate gas pre-funding and volatile treasury management. The result is a simpler enterprise infrastructure, operating and cost model that makes proxy trading and autonomous systems work. Free transfers mean gas fees never compete with or exceed the value of the payment itself, making micropayments viable on any scale.
Recent momentum across the Sui ecosystem underscores the growing demand for scalable financial infrastructure and payments based on stablecoins. In 2026 alone, four exchange-traded SUI products from 21Shares, Grayscale and Canary Capital were launched globally, expanding institutional access to the Sui ecosystem. Meanwhile, stablecoin initiatives, including Sui Dollar (USDSui) issued by Bridge and eSui Dollar (SuiUSDe) issued by Ethena, have continued to expand Sui’s growing digital dollar ecosystem and strengthen its position as an Internet-scale finance infrastructure.
Stablecoin transfers are now performed without gas on the Sui Mainnet. To learn more about payments on Sui, visit https://www.sui.io/Payments.
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About Sui
Sui, where money moves freely like messages, is a next-generation, layer-one Blockchain technology designed for scalable finance and global payments. Sui was founded by the core team behind the stable Meta Coins initiative and is powered by an object-centric model, making assets, permissions, and user data programmable and proprietary. Sui primitives provide builders with everything they need to build high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agent payments. Users can learn more at sui.io.
About fire blocks
Fireblocks is the world’s most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations of all sizes to build, manage and grow their businesses on the blockchain. With the most secure and scalable platform in the industry, we simplify stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, trading, accounting processes and compliance reporting – enabling everything from institutional finance to consumer-facing digital experiences across the largest ecosystem of banks, payment providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges and custodians. Thousands of institutions — including Worldpay, BNY, Galaxy, and Revolut — trust Fireblocks to secure more than $14 trillion in digital asset transactions across more than 150 blockchains. Users can learn more at fireblocks.com.
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