Avantis uses Gelato’s Paymaster & Bundler to remove gas friction from high-frequency trading, powering more than $3.7B in gasless perpetual volume across its main app and Base mini app.
Avantis at a Glance
Avantis is an onchain perpetual exchange on Base that enables users to trade synthetic crypto, forex and commodities through a single interface. Built around a USDC-based liquidity pool, Avantis supports up to 500x leverage while allowing traders to retain custody of their collateral.
Deployed on Base for its fast, cost-efficient infrastructure, Avantis aims to deliver the speed, responsiveness, and capital efficiency traders expect from centralized venues, without sacrificing the benefits of onchain execution.
That focus makes perpetual trading an ideal stress test for onchain UX.
The Challenge: Gas Friction in Perpetual Markets
Perpetual trading is inherently interactive. Opening and closing positions, adjusting leverage, managing collateral, and responding to price movements all require frequent onchain actions.
Requiring traders to manage native gas tokens and repeatedly approve transactions disrupts the trading flow and slows execution. This friction directly impacts trading performance, because perpetual markets are dependent on speed. Even small delays create arbitrage opportunities that increase costs for liquidity providers and degrade execution quality for traders. For perpetual markets, gas friction is not just a UX problem. It directly impacts market quality.
Removing that friction requires more than abstracting fees. The underlying execution layer must operate with the ultra-low latency and reliability that high-frequency trading demands.
Abstracting Gas with Paymaster & Bundler
To deliver a gasless trading experience without compromising speed, Avantis integrated Gelato’s Paymaster & Bundler. Gelato’s infrastructure is optimized for performance at scale, delivering inclusion times under 0.5 seconds and 30-60% lower average gas overhead compared to other providers.
With Gelato:
Traders do not need to hold ETH or other native tokens to transact
Gas is sponsored by Avantis, removing friction from every interaction
Gas payments are processed automatically in the background, without interrupting trading flow
This allows Avantis to offer a trading experience that feels immediate and intuitive, while preserving fully onchain settlement and non-custodial control.
$3.7B+ in Gasless Transactions
Since launching gasless trading with Gelato, Avantis has processed more than 140K gasless transactions, providing seamless, Web2-like experiences to more than 10K unique traders.
In total, over $3.7 billion has been moved gaslessly on Avantis. Gasless volume continues to grow rapidly, with approximately $2 billion in gasless volume across 85K transactions this month alone.
This scale is supported by Gelato’s globally distributed infrastructure, which maintains 99.99% uptime across regions, even under sustained production load.
Why It Matters
Gas management remains one of the most persistent sources of friction in onchain applications, especially for high-frequency use cases like perpetual trading.
By integrating Gelato’s Paymaster & Bundler, Avantis removes that friction entirely, enabling onchain trading that is competitive with centralized exchanges in speed and ease of use, while remaining fully non-custodial.
Together, Avantis and Gelato show that DeFi UX can be as intuitive as Web2 UX, setting a new standard for usability in onchain trading and paving the way for broader crypto adoption.
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