Ethereum’s Frames Proposal Could Let Apps Pay Gas for Their Users

By Isaac • September 7, 2026 3:25 pm •

Ethereum’s next big wallet upgrade may be less about shaving a few cents off fees and more about changing who has to pay them in the first place.

A draft proposal called EIP-8141 would introduce “Frames,” a new transaction structure that separates validation, gas payment and execution. In plain English, a wallet could sign an action while an app, another account or an ERC-20 token covers the fee.

Decrypt reports that a Frame transaction could contain as many as 64 ordinary contract calls. One can validate the transaction, another can authorize payment, and the remaining calls can carry out the user’s intended action.

That separation matters because Ethereum users still run into a familiar problem: they