How ZeroDev Simplifies Wallet, Gas, and Cross-Chain Friction

Creating a seamless user experience that allows users to smoothly interact with your product is one of the greatest challenges when building blockchain applications. Users can drop off at wallet creation, get stuck finding gas, abandon flows during approvals, or get confused by how to send transactions from one chain to another.

That’s where ZeroDev comes in.  

As part of the full-stack product suite developed by Offchain, ZeroDev provides businesses like EdgeX, Glider, and Ethereal one place to build, launch and scale programmable accounts.

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Instead of asking your users to manage seed phrases, gas tokens, and transaction approvals, ZeroDev developed a key set of features to help builders reduce that complexity:

1. Smart Accounts
   Replace seed phrases, repeated signing, and rigid EOA flows with recoverable accounts, programmable permissions, gas sponsorship, and chain-aware execution.
2. Ultra Relay
   Sponsor fees, support flexible gas payments, and keep smart account transactions moving without forcing users to acquire native tokens first.
3. Embedded Wallet
   A single wallet interface for businesses to use programmable smart accounts, gas sponsorship, and account abstraction, helping teams launch faster with fewer integrations.
4. Orchestration
   Coordinate funding, permissions, policy, and execution across chains. Bring together Smart Routing Address flows, smart accounts, chain abstraction, and programmable transaction patterns without exposing the complexity to users.
5. Smart Routing Address
   Provide your users a persistent address for deposits from CEXs, onramps, and supported chains, then route funds to the intended target without making users manage bridge logic.

The result is a simpler path from user acquisition to activation, retention, and scale. 

Why user experience is still a key battleground

In many ways, the blockchain infrastructure problem is largely solved by the Arbitrum Platform with its low-cost, fast, and deeply customizable execution environment. But the user experience challenges at the application layer have space for improvement. Every additional step between signup and value creation introduces several key friction points:

For most applications, these aren’t purely technical challenges. They’re growth challenges. The Arbitrum Platform provides a high-performance execution environment. ZeroDev complements that with an account infrastructure layer that can remove several of these user-facing obstacles. 

Where ZeroDev works well with Arbitrum

ZeroDev is strongest when an application built with the Arbitrum Platform needs more seamless onboarding. Below are five examples of where Arbitrum and ZeroDev can apply to practical use cases. 

Payments

Payment products cannot afford the friction brought forth by today’s crypto UX. If a sender or recipient has to stop and figure out gas, bridges, seed phrases, or network switching, the product can feel limiting. ZeroDev can help your payment application feel closer to a fintech flow:

• Smart accounts for user-owned payment accounts
• Gas sponsorship so users can transact before holding ETH
• ERC-20 gas payments so fees can be paid in stablecoins
• Batched transactions for approve, transfer, and settlement flows
• Session keys for recurring payments, limits, or automation
• Smart routing for cross-chain payment experiences

If implemented correctly, this can result in fewer failed transactions, fewer support issues, and fewer moments where a user has to understand the infrastructure before they can use the product.

Asset Tokenization

Institutions managing private credit, funds, real estate, and loyalty systems need more than the infrastructure to tokenize their managed assets and expand them into programmable markets. They also need the top-down user experience around those tokenized assets to feel more familiar for investors and operators that may not be crypto-native.

ZeroDev can help with the operational layer:

• Embedded smart account onboarding
• Gas sponsorship for minting, claiming, transfers, and redemptions
• Batched compliance and asset actions
• Policy controls for transfer and redemption flows
• Session keys for distributions or recurring operations
• Cross-chain routing when users, liquidity, or assets span networks

Embedded Finance

Everyday users looking to spend, save, earn, or transfer money across borders do not want to think about RPCs, gas, nonce errors, approvals, bridges, or which chain they are on. They want the app to work in the most seamless way possible. 

ZeroDev can provide embedded financial applications the ability to simplify unnecessary complexity, while still keeping user activity onchain:

• Passkey or social login
• Gas sponsorship
• ERC-20 gas payments
• Transaction batching
• Account recovery patterns
• Session keys for subscriptions, recurring investments, or automated actions
• Chain abstraction for cross-chain flows

This is a strong fit for stablecoin wallets, savings apps, DeFi frontends, crypto-enabled neobanks, rewards products, cashback apps, and subscription payment experiences.

Exchanges

For DEX frontends, derivatives, trading bots, and portfolio automation tools, your traders do not want to manage idle ETH, repeat approvals, or expose full wallet access to every automation layer. ZeroDev helps trading apps build cleaner execution flows with:

• Session keys for limited trading permissions
• Batched approve, swap, and settle actions
• ERC-20 gas payments
• Sponsored onboarding or high-value trades
• Automation permissions for bots, agents, and strategies
• Cross-chain routing for multi-chain liquidity access

A special offer for Arbitrum

By signing up with the code ARBZERODEV, teams building on Arbitrum can access 3 free months of the ZeroDev Growth Plan until the offer expires on August 22, 2026.

The offer includes:

• 100,000 credits
• Gas sponsorship access
• Bundler infrastructure

To use this offer, sign up for a ZeroDev account, navigate to Billing, subscribe to the Growth plan, and enter your credit card information (you will not be charged). After you've entered your payment information, apply the code ARBZERODEV to activate the discount.

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The future of onchain UX

The next generation of applications won't ask users to learn wallets, bridges, gas mechanics, or account management. They'll simply deliver products.

The Arbitrum Platform provides the execution environment. ZeroDev provides the account abstraction and user experience layer. Together, they can help teams move faster, reduce user friction, and build applications that feel more familiar.

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