TLDR:

1. Lava Free Pay enables you to move dollars around the world freely and instantly.

2. Lava Free Pay enables you to interact with blockchains without holding a gas token, solving a significant UX barrier for self-custody.

Digital dollars were supposed to enable seamless, global payments, but so far, using them has been more cumbersome than using centralized finance. To understand how bad the current UX is, imagine that every time you want to send money on Venmo, you first have to buy volatile VenmoBucks, incurring fees, in order to pay an additional volatile transaction fee charged in those VenmoBucks. This is the experience every self-custody user faces today, but instead of VenmoBucks, they have to buy a gas token like ETH or SOL. Today, we announce Lava Free Pay, which gives users the ability to interact with blockchains without holding a gas token and thus unlocks free, instant, and global payments.

How does Lava Free Pay Work?

Lava Free Pay enables you to interact with blockchains without having to manage a gas token balance. Anytime you make a transaction through Lava, you create a partially-signed transaction and send it to Lava Free Pay. Lava Free Pay then pays the native gas fee and broadcasts the transaction. The service is trustless, meaning it’s cryptographically ensured that Lava Free Pay can’t steal your funds.