The team behind the Trust Wallet started automatically covering fees (gas fee) in token exchange operations (swaps).
The initiative, presented on November 12 and called Gas Sponsorship (gas sponsorship), allows you to carry out swaps even though the user do not have native token balance to cover the network commission.
In practice, the new feature aims to solve a friction point in the user experience.
If a person has tokens to exchange, but does not have the small balance necessary to cover the gas, the result It is usually a failed transaction. The need to make an additional deposit is then generated just to pay the commission.
Now, with gas sponsorship, Trust Wallet detects that situation and automatically covers the cost of gaswithout additional steps on the part of the user.
The goal is to reduce failed transactions, avoid unnecessary recharges and simplify the user experience.
Gas sponsorship is available at BNB Chain, Solana y Ethereumaccording to a Dec. 15 X post from the Trust Wallet team.
BNB Chain and Solana allow up to four swaps sponsored per day. While in the network created by Binance there is no limit on the amount for these exchanges. In the case of Solana, the minimum amount per operation is around $200.
Towards the end of last November, Trust Wallet explained that they had covered a volume of more than 100 million dollars in cryptocurrency exchange operations. This, after the launch of the function on BNB Chain.
On Ethereum, for now, the feature is limited to swapsalthough the plan is to also extend it to transfers.