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MoonPay Brings Gasless Stablecoin Transactions to TRON

MoonPay has wired TRON into its Trade infrastructure so stablecoins move without a TRX gas balance The smart contracts pull the network fee out of the assets already being sent Trust Wallet i

AnonymousCryptoCompass newsroom
August 5, 2026
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MoonPay Brings Gasless Stablecoin Transactions to TRON
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  • MoonPay has wired TRON into its Trade infrastructure so stablecoins move without a TRX gas balance
  • The smart contracts pull the network fee out of the assets already being sent
  • Trust Wallet is the launch partner, with SunSwap and JustLend next in line
  • TRX trades near $0.33, holding its 50-day average as a two-month range tightens

MoonPay switched on gasless stablecoin transfers across the TRON network on August 5, folding the integration into its Trade infrastructure and letting users move digital dollars without first buying TRX to cover fees. The payments company confirmed the rollout in a press release, naming Trust Wallet as the first wallet to carry the feature and pointing to TRON’s role as one of the busiest settlement rails for stablecoins. For anyone sending USDT on TRON, the practical change is that the separate chore of topping up a gas wallet disappears.

How the gas fee gets folded into the trade

The mechanism sits inside MoonPay Trade rather than on the user’s side. When someone sends a stablecoin, the required TRX gas gets abstracted away and folded into the overall transaction, so the fee is settled without the user ever holding the token. MoonPay describes it as incorporating the network fee into the transaction itself, letting people transact with only the assets they already have. The fee still gets paid; it just comes out of the asset the user is already moving rather than a separate TRX balance sitting idle in the wallet. MoonPay claims the setup can lower transaction costs by as much as 10x and reduces the failed transfers that occur when a wallet runs dry on gas mid-transaction, though the company has not published the underlying cost breakdown behind that figure.

Why TRON was the network to target

TRON carries more stablecoin settlement than almost any other chain, clearing north of $22 billion in average daily transfer volume. That scale is the reason the gas problem was worth solving here. Most of that flow is people and businesses moving USDT for payments and remittances, and every one of those transfers has needed a small TRX balance to go through. For a first-time user funding a wallet with dollars, acquiring a second token just to pay fees has long been the point where onboarding stalls.

Trust Wallet first, with SunSwap and JustLend in the pipeline

Trust Wallet activated the feature for its users from day one. The integration then reaches natively into dApps across the TRON ecosystem, including the SunSwap exchange and the JustLend lending market, so the gasless path is not confined to a single wallet. Underneath it, MoonPay Trade runs on cross-chain routing technology the company picked up through its acquisition of Decent.xyz, which handles cross-chain execution and settlement across more than 200 chains through a single integration.

MOONPAY × TRONThe integration at a glanceWhat launchedGasless stablecoin transfers on TRON via MoonPay TradeGas handlingFee bundled into the transaction, paid from the asset being sentCost impactUp to 10x lower cost, fewer failed transfersLaunch partnerTrust Wallet, live from day onedApp reachSunSwap, JustLend, and other TRON ecosystem appsSettlement engineCross-chain routing from the Decent.xyz acquisitionNetwork scaleTRON clears over $22 billion in daily stablecoin volume

What gasless TRON means for stablecoin payments

Removing the gas step reshapes the economics of small transfers most of all. A micropayment or a cross-border remittance of a few dollars was hard to justify when the sender had to hold and spend a separate token to complete it, and that friction pushed those users toward centralized apps. Wallets and payment apps that plug into MoonPay Trade can now offer a flow where the user funds in dollars and spends in dollars, with the chain’s mechanics invisible. Whether that pulls volume away from centralized off-ramps or simply grows the overall pool of on-chain dollar payments is the open question the next few months will answer.

TRX holds its 50-day line while the range tightens

None of this has jolted the TRX chart, which has spent the summer going sideways. The token trades at $0.3278, barely changed on the day, and the story on the daily timeframe is a range that has been narrowing since June.

TRON (TRX/USDT) daily chart with Fibonacci levels and RSI near 0.3278. TRX/USDT daily chart. Analysis by Alexander Stefanov / @alexandertradenews.

The run that built the current picture came between late March and late May, when TRX climbed from around $0.29 to a swing high of $0.3773. Price rejected that high in early June and has consolidated ever since, chopping inside a band that runs roughly $0.315 to $0.335. Volatility has kept compressing into August, a pattern that usually precedes a larger move, though the chart offers no clean signal yet on direction.

The moving averages still lean constructive. The 50-day simple moving average, which tracks the average closing price over the past 50 sessions and works as a medium-term trend gauge, sits at $0.3263, above the slower 200-day average at $0.3174. That ordering, faster line over slower line, is the alignment bulls want to see, and it has not broken. Both lines run close to flat, which says the trend has stalled rather than turned. Price only reclaimed the 50-day in the past week after spending most of July underneath it.

The level that decides the next move

Current price is parked on top of a spot where two markers overlap. The 0.236 Fibonacci retracement of the June decline sits at $0.3265, almost exactly on the 50-day average at $0.3263. A Fibonacci retracement measures how much of a prior move price has given back, and the 0.236 level marks a shallow, early giveback. That overlap at roughly $0.326 is the pivot. Hold above it and the near-term bias stays tilted higher. Lose it and the 200-day at $0.3174 comes back into focus as the next real floor, with the range low near $0.3109 below that.

One detail tempers the bullish case. The recovery off the $0.3109 low has only carried price back to that 0.236 retracement, a modest bounce given how far June fell. A genuine buy-side reclaim tends to recover more of the drop. This looks closer to a base forming than a fresh advance, at least until price shows otherwise.

Momentum matches the range. The Relative Strength Index, a 0-to-100 gauge of whether an asset is overbought or oversold, reads 50.65 with its signal line at 51.31. That is squarely neutral, with no divergence and no stretch on either side. It confirms the sideways read rather than warning of a break.

Upside trigger Daily close above $0.335 Confirms the range is resolving higher, with $0.3441 and $0.3519 as the next targets. Downside trigger Close below $0.3263 Loses the 50-day and 0.236 confluence, opening $0.3174 then the $0.3109 floor.

For traders the trigger is mechanical. A daily close back above $0.335 would signal the range resolving higher, while a close under $0.326 opens the downside. The fundamentals give that setup something to watch beyond the candles. If the gasless integration lifts TRON’s stablecoin transfer count and pulls new wallets onto the network, that shows up in on-chain activity before it shows up in price, and sustained demand for block space is what tends to lead TRX rather than follow it. The number to track over the coming weeks is whether daily transfer volume climbs above its current $22 billion baseline, which would tell you the integration is doing more than sitting on a press release.

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