--- title: "Gasless Onboarding for Consumer Apps" description: "Onboard users who have never owned crypto: sponsor their gas, set budgets that protect your margins, and make the blockchain disappear from your UX." canonical: https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/consumer-apps --- # Gasless Onboarding for Consumer Apps > Markdown mirror of https://www.pimlico.io/solutions/consumer-apps. 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](https://www.pimlico.io/products/ecosystem-gas-programs.md): For chains and ecosystems: sponsor gas for every team building on your chain, so their users transact without ever holding native token. - [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 (this page) - [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. --- For Consumer Apps # Your next million users don't own ETH They sign up with a passkey or a social login, and your app pays their gas, invisibly. The apps winning onchain are the ones where the blockchain disappears. [Start building](https://dashboard.pimlico.io)[Talk to us](https://cal.com/kristofgazso/20min) 100M+transactions sponsored <2sinclusion time on L2s **mint.ts** ```typescript // User taps "Mint": no ETH, no gas prompt const txHash = await smartAccountClient.sendTransaction({ to: collection, data: mintCalldata, }) // ✓ Included on Base in 477ms // ✓ Gas paid: $0.00, sponsored by you ``` Trusted by leading consumer apps [Tools for Humanity](https://www.toolsforhumanity.com)[Fomo](https://fomo.family)[fun.xyz](https://fun.xyz)[Zora](https://zora.co)[Picnic](https://usepicnic.com)[ZyFAI](https://www.zyf.ai) Growth math ### Sponsored gas is acquisition spend that converts You already pay to acquire users. Losing them at a fee prompt, for a transaction that costs cents, is the worst trade in your funnel. Sponsoring the first few transactions costs pennies per user and removes the single biggest reason they bounce. Policies keep the spend honest: first-N-free per user, dollar caps, campaign budgets. When the budget is spent, sponsorship stops on its own. 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 After onboarding ### Sponsor the first transactions. Then users pay their own way. Sponsorship gets users through the door, but it doesn't have to pay their way forever. Once users fund their account, the same client switches them to paying fees in USDC, USDT, or 300+ other tokens they already hold on that chain. Your acquisition spend gets a built-in exit ramp. One client and one policy engine cover both phases, so the switch is a config change, not a migration. [Explore ERC-20 Gas Sponsorships](https://www.pimlico.io/products/erc20-gas.md) 1 New user arrives Their first transactions are sponsored under your policy. No balance needed at all. 2 They fund their account Stablecoins land in the account, and there is still no native token to buy. 3 The same client switches to ERC-20 gas One config line, and fees come out of the balance they already hold. The toolkit ## Everything between signup and confirmed transaction [ ### Gas Sponsorship Users transact free from their very first session, with no tokens to buy and no prompts to dismiss. Learn more](https://www.pimlico.io/products/gas-sponsorship.md) [ ### Sponsorship Policies Budgets and rules that turn "free gas" into a controlled growth lever. Learn more](https://www.pimlico.io/products/sponsorship-policies.md) [ ### Fast, reliable execution Inclusion in <2s on L2s keeps your app feeling like an app instead of a blockchain. Learn more](https://www.pimlico.io/products/transaction-infrastructure.md) [ ### Your crypto-native users are covered too Sponsor gas for the regular wallets they already have, with no migration and no new account. Powered by EIP-7702, live today. See how it works →](https://www.pimlico.io/products/gas-sponsorship.md#eip-7702) Works with your onboarding ## Passkeys and social login, already integrated Face ID instead of seed phrases. Pimlico sits under whichever auth your app already picked, so onboarding stays the flow your designers built. Social login DynamicPrivyMagicWeb3AuthOpenfortParaParticle NetworkLit Protocol Passkeys Passkey (WebAuthn) signerPasskey (WebAuthn) server Users sign with Face ID or Touch ID, with no seed phrase or browser extension. [See all integrations](https://www.pimlico.io/integrations.md) In production ## How consumer apps use Pimlico [ Zora The onchain creator network sponsors gas with Pimlico so creators and collectors never need ETH first. ](https://zora.co) [ Picnic The consumer investing app abstracts gas away entirely for its users with Pimlico. ](https://usepicnic.com) [ Fomo The social-first crypto trading app runs its onchain transactions on Pimlico. ](https://fomo.family) [See all customers](https://www.pimlico.io/customers.md) ## Frequently asked questions **What does sponsoring a user's transaction cost us?** The actual gas cost plus a 10% surcharge on mainnet, with no surcharge on testnets. Pimlico fronts the gas, and every sponsored transaction is itemized in the dashboard by policy, chain, and time, so finance always knows where the budget went. Enterprise plans get lower pre-negotiated rates. **What happens if we go viral?** Nothing you didn't budget for. Policies cap spend per transaction, per user, and per campaign, so a viral day never becomes a runaway bill. When a budget is spent, sponsorship stops cleanly on its own, and you can set alerts that fire before limits are hit, not after. **What stops bots from farming free gas?** Per-user limits cap what any single account can drain, and per-transaction caps keep each sponsorship small. For sharper rules, Pimlico calls your server before sponsoring: fraud signals, allowlists, any check you can code becomes a sponsorship rule. **Do users need a wallet or a seed phrase?** No. They sign with Face ID or Touch ID, or with the social login they already use, and a smart account is created behind it. And with EIP-7702, users who arrive with a regular wallet get sponsored transactions too, with no migration and no new account.