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title: "Ecosystem Gas Programs for Chains"
description: "For chains and ecosystems: sponsor gas for every team building on your chain, so their users transact without ever holding native token."
canonical: https://www.pimlico.io/products/ecosystem-gas-programs
---

# Ecosystem Gas Programs for Chains

> Markdown mirror of https://www.pimlico.io/products/ecosystem-gas-programs. Every page on this site has a markdown version at the same path with a `.md` suffix. For technical and implementation details, see Pimlico's documentation index at https://docs.pimlico.io/llms.txt.

## Pages on this site

### Home

- [The gas sponsorship engine for onchain apps](https://www.pimlico.io/index.md): Pimlico is the gas sponsorship engine for onchain apps. Sponsor transactions, accept any ERC20 token for gas, and set policy rules across 100+ chains.

### Products

- Ecosystem Gas Programs for Chains (this page)
- [Pay Gas in USDC, USDT & 300+ ERC-20 Tokens](https://www.pimlico.io/products/erc20-gas.md): Let users pay gas in USDC, USDT, or any of 300+ ERC20 tokens, with no native tokens required. Audited by OpenZeppelin and Quantstamp.
- [Gas Sponsorship for Onchain Apps](https://www.pimlico.io/products/gas-sponsorship.md): Sponsor gas for your users so they transact instantly, with no native tokens to buy and no fee prompts to abandon. Powered by the engine behind 100M+ sponsored transactions.
- [Sponsorship Policies — Spend Controls for Gas](https://www.pimlico.io/products/sponsorship-policies.md): Spend controls for gas: sponsor the first N transactions per user, cap dollars per transaction, per user, or per campaign, all configured in the dashboard and applied instantly.
- [Transaction Infrastructure & ERC-4337 Bundlers](https://www.pimlico.io/products/transaction-infrastructure.md): The execution engine under the sponsorship layer: ERC-4337 bundlers with <2s inclusion on L2s, parallel processing, and 250M+ transactions relayed in production.

### Solutions

- [Onchain Execution for AI Agents](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/ai-agents.md): Give AI agents smart accounts that execute on demand: they trade, pay, and move money the instant your logic fires. Sponsor their actions, or let user-funded agents pay their own way in USDC, USDT, or 300+ tokens, within the limits you set.
- [Smart Account Infrastructure for Chains](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/chains.md): Launch with smart account infrastructure from day one and fund gas programs that turn your ecosystem’s onboarding friction into growth.
- [Deploy Pimlico on Your Chain](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/chains/deploy.md): Enterprise deployments for chains and ecosystems: Pimlico's complete suite, from gas sponsorship to transaction infrastructure, live on your chain so every builder ships better UX from day one.
- [Gasless Onboarding for Consumer Apps](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/consumer-apps.md): Onboard users who have never owned crypto: sponsor their gas, set budgets that protect your margins, and make the blockchain disappear from your UX.
- [Enterprise Onchain Infrastructure](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/enterprise.md): SOC 2 certified infrastructure with custom SLAs, 24/7 support, and the team that co-authored ERC-4337, built for companies that cannot afford a dropped transaction.
- [Stablecoin Settlement Infrastructure](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/stablecoin-processors.md): Execute stablecoin transactions reliably, at low latency, on 100+ chains, with gas paid in the stablecoins you already move.
- [Smart Account Infrastructure for Startups](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/startups.md): Ship smart accounts in hours, not weeks. Free on testnets, pay-as-you-go in production, no commitments. It is the stack startups like Daimo and Zora started on.
- [Smart Account Infrastructure for Wallets](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/wallets.md): Build gasless smart wallets with any signer and any smart account, on the infrastructure trusted by MetaMask, Safe, and Trust Wallet.

### Other pages

- [Customers](https://www.pimlico.io/customers.md): The teams building on Pimlico: Circle, MetaMask, Safe, Trust Wallet, Zora, Tools for Humanity, and more, across wallets, consumer apps, and stablecoin payments.
- [Smart Account & Signer Integrations](https://www.pimlico.io/integrations.md): Every major smart account and signer, already integrated: Safe, Kernel, MetaMask, Privy, Turnkey, passkeys, and more, across 100+ chains.
- [Pricing](https://www.pimlico.io/pricing.md): Free on testnets, pay-as-you-go in production, custom Enterprise rates. Transparent credit-based pricing for gas sponsorship and transaction infrastructure.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.pimlico.io/privacy.md): This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website or use our services and tell you about your privacy rights.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.pimlico.io/tos.md): This Terms of Service will inform you about the terms of using Pimlico's services.

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Ecosystem Gas Programs

# Grow your chain by removing its biggest barrier

The hardest step for every app on your chain is the same: users need native token before they can do anything. Fund a gas program and that step disappears for every builder at once.

[Talk to us](https://cal.com/kristofgazso/20min)[Start building](https://dashboard.pimlico.io)

100+chains live today

100M+transactions sponsored

1

Your ecosystem funds a program

A single budget, with rules for which apps and users qualify.

2

Pimlico distributes it as sponsored gas

Approved apps sponsor transactions through their existing integration.

3

Users transact with zero native tokens

Onboarding friction disappears across your whole ecosystem at once.

4

You measure the growth

Per-app dashboards tie every dollar of gas to transactions and active users.

Teams like these already run on Pimlico

Approved apps join your program through the integration they already have.

[Circle](https://circle.com)[MetaMask](https://metamask.io)[Safe](https://safe.global)[Trust Wallet](https://trustwallet.com)[Consensys](https://consensys.io)[Zora](https://zora.co)[Daimo](https://daimo.com)

[See all customers](https://www.pimlico.io/customers.md)

Why chains run programs

## Native-token onboarding is your ecosystem's shared bottleneck

Every app on your chain pays the same friction tax. Solving it once, at the ecosystem level, lifts all of them.

### Activation, not airdrops

Gas programs subsidize real usage, the transactions that happen in real apps, instead of token giveaways that get farmed and dumped.

### A builder magnet

"Deploy here and your users' gas is covered" is one of the strongest BD offers a chain can make.

### Controlled spend

The full sponsorship policy engine applies: per-app budgets, per-user caps, time windows. The program ends when you say it does.

Controlled spend

### The program ends when you say it does

Your program is a budget enforced at the infrastructure layer. Every sponsorship is checked against your rules before it happens: per app, per user, per transaction, and against the program budget as a whole.

Change a limit in the dashboard and it applies to the very next transaction. Spend is itemized per app and per policy, so your foundation knows exactly what the budget bought.

[Explore Sponsorship Policies](https://www.pimlico.io/products/sponsorship-policies.md)

sp\_onboarding\_q3

New-user onboarding

Active

Sponsor first5 transactions / user

Max per transaction$1.00

Max per user$3.00

Campaign budget$5,000.00

ChainsBase, Arbitrum, Optimism

Budget used$1,860 / $5,000

The builders you attract

## Your chain becomes a one-line config change

A gas program is a builder magnet because the builders are already here. The largest smart account developer community ships on Pimlico's open-source stack, and pointing it at your chain is a config change, not a migration.

[

### permissionless.js

100k+ weekly downloads

The most widely used TypeScript library for smart account transactions, built on viem, with first-class support for every major smart account implementation.

View on GitHub →](https://github.com/pimlicolabs/permissionless.js)

[

### alto

729K+ downloads

The open-source, type-safe ERC-4337 bundler that is the backbone of Pimlico's transaction infrastructure, the same code that has relayed 250M+ transactions in production.

View on GitHub →](https://github.com/pimlicolabs/alto)

We also co-authored the standards everyone builds on: ERC-4337, ERC-7677 and ERC-7679.

For your builders

### Enrollment is one line

Approved teams attach your program's policy ID to the transactions they already send through Pimlico. No new contracts to deploy, no tokens to distribute, no integration project to ask of them.

That is what makes "deploy here and your users' gas is covered" an offer builders accept on the spot: saying yes costs them one line.

**policy.ts**

```typescript
// Attach a sponsorship policy created in the dashboard:
// "Sponsor the first 5 transactions per user, up to $1 each,
//  with a $5,000 campaign budget"
const txHash = await smartAccountClient.sendTransaction({
  to: "0x...",
  data: "0x...",
  paymasterContext: {
    sponsorshipPolicyId: "sp_first_five_free",
  },
})
```

Partnership

### Launching a chain? We move fast.

We are live on 100+ chains and onboard new ones continuously. If you are launching an L2, an L3, or an appchain, we can have bundlers and paymasters running before your mainnet does.

Ecosystem deals are bespoke (budgets, eligibility, co-marketing), so the right first step is a conversation.

[See how a deployment runs](https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/chains/deploy.md)

What partners get

-   Bundler and paymaster live on your chain, including pre-mainnet
-   Day-one smart account support for every team building on you
-   A funded gas program designed around your growth targets
-   Co-marketing to the largest smart account developer base

Ecosystems already running the full suite

EthereumEthereum

BaseBase

ArbitrumArbitrum

OptimismOptimism

PolygonPolygon

BNB ChainBNB Chain

AvalancheAvalanche

Due diligence

## Infrastructure your foundation can underwrite

250M+

transactions processed

100M+

transactions sponsored

100+

chains supported

<2s

inclusion time on L2s

SOC 2 Type 1 certifiedOFAC sanctions screening24/7 supportAudited by OpenZeppelin & QuantstampCo-authors of ERC-4337, ERC-7677 & ERC-7679

## Frequently asked questions

**Who funds the gas in an ecosystem program?**

The chain or ecosystem foundation funds a program budget; Pimlico distributes it as sponsored gas across the apps you choose to support, with per-app and per-user controls so the budget drives the activity you actually want.

**How do developers on our chain enroll?**

You define the eligibility criteria; approved teams get sponsorship through their existing Pimlico integration, with no extra contracts to deploy or tokens to distribute.

**What visibility do we get?**

Program dashboards show spend, transactions, active users, and per-app breakdowns, so you can measure exactly what the program generates.

**Our chain is new. Can Pimlico support it?**

Almost certainly. We are live on 100+ chains and onboard new ones continuously, and partnering with upcoming chains early is something we actively look for.