Ethereum Advances Proposal to Let Users Pay Gas Without Holding ETH
Ethereum's core developers have advanced EIP-8141, also known as the Frame Transaction proposal, into the specification track for a future network upgrade.
The proposal would allow transactions to be split into multiple linked frames, one of which can cover gas in an asset other than ETH. This change targets a specific complaint from new users: needing to hold ETH just to pay for a transaction denominated in something else.
The Frame Transaction proposal introduces a transaction type that can bundle multiple linked actions, called frames, into a single atomic operation. This allows one frame to handle a payment in a stablecoin or other token, and a separate, linked frame to cover the gas cost, potentially paid by a third party such as an application or sponsor.
EIP-8141 is not the first attempt at solving this problem. Account abstraction proposals have chipped away at the requirement that every wallet behave like a plain externally owned account that can only pay gas in ETH.