Ethereum commits to letting users pay gas fees without having to hold ETH
The Frame Transactions feature was locked into the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the work has moved quickly since.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/07/ethereum-commits-to-letting-users-pay-gas-fees-without-having-to-hold-eth"A proposal meant to fix that is now a committed part of the blockchain’s next major upgrade. Core developers moved EIP-8141, called Frame Transactions, to Scheduled for Inclusion at their Aug. 27 call, marking the feature as part of a broader network update rather than just a candidate for one.
Changes to Ethereum are bundled into upgrades every year or so, each with a codename. Glamsterdam is due later this year; Hegotá, which will include the Frame Transactions enhancement, follows it in 2027.
"A lot of important progress on Frames (EIP-8141) has been quietly happening over the last few months," Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the proposal's 10 authors, wrote on X late Sunday."