{"id":178184,"date":"2023-10-21T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=178184"},"modified":"2023-10-21T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:54:20","slug":"circle-brings-gasless-transactions-to-grab-wallet-users-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/circle-brings-gasless-transactions-to-grab-wallet-users-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Brings Gasless Transactions To Grab Wallet Users &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Grab, the Southeast Asian \u2018superapp\u2019 servicing 180M users, is teaming up with Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, to offer fee-free NFT experiences for Singaporean users.<\/p>\n<p>Announced on Oct. 19, the partnership will pilot Circle\u2019s freshly launched Gas Station product, which allows developers to offset the gas fees incurred by user transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGas fees pose an added layer of friction for developers and businesses looking to integrate blockchain benefits into their apps,\u201d Circle said. \u201cWith the launch of Gas Station, we are abstracting away blockchain transaction fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Grab Wallet<\/h2>\n<p>Grab launched a Polygon-based web3 wallet for Singaporean users in September following cooperation with the country\u2019s central.<\/p>\n<p>The wallet allows users to accrue NFT vouchers that can be used at events and businesses in Singapore, including merchants, restaurants, and last month\u2019s Formula 1 Grand Prix. Payments are executed via the XSGD stablecoin from StraitsX.<\/p>\n<p>Users also receive digital collectables as rewards when redeeming NFT vouchers. The collectibles reportedly depict famed Singaporean landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>Grab\u2019s wallet leverages Circle\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/usdc-issuer-circle-launches-programmable-web3-wallet\">Programmable Wallet<\/a> service, which was launched in July and supports <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/ethereum-account-abstraction-erc-4337\">account abstraction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Circle targets web3 builders with new products<\/h2>\n<p>Circle launches two new services built on top of its Programmable Wallet in the form of Gas Station and Smart Contract Platform on Oct. 19<\/p>\n<p>The platform allows users to manage and deploy smart contracts through a user-interface. 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Announced on Oct. 19, the partnership will pilot Circle\u2019s freshly launched Gas Station product, which allows developers to offset the gas fees incurred by user transactions. \u201cGas fees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-178184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178185,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178184\/revisions\/178185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}