Sending stablecoins on a blockchain has always come with a strange tax: you need to own the chain’s native token just to pay the fee for moving dollars. Sui Network just killed that requirement entirely.
As of May 20, the Sui Mainnet now supports protocol-level gasless stablecoin transfers, setting transaction fees to $0.00 for eligible peer-to-peer payments. No SUI tokens in your wallet? No problem. The feature works natively at the protocol layer, making Sui the first Layer 1 blockchain to fully eliminate gas fees for stablecoin transfers.
How it works and what’s eligible
The update covers a surprisingly broad roster of stablecoins. USDC from Circle headlines the list, joined by USDsui, suiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, and USDY. That’s seven stablecoins at launch, giving users meaningful optionality rather than locking them into a single issuer.
If you hold any of those stablecoins on Sui, you can send them to another wallet without owning a single SUI token and without paying a cent in fees.
