PANews reported on December 3 that ETHGas officially launched the Open Gas Initiative, providing a zero-code gas subsidy program to help various protocols share some of the gas costs for users, creating a smoother, lower-friction on-chain interaction experience. The initiative is already live on the Ethereum mainnet and will be expanded to other EVM public chains and Layer 2 networks such as BNB, Base, and Arbitrum in the future.

The initial OG lineup includes protocols such as EigenCloud, ether.fi, Pendle Finance, and Velvet Capital, which will be the first to integrate with the Open Gas Initiative, demonstrating the potential to improve user engagement and retention through "gas subsidies + community goodwill" in real-world use cases. Meanwhile, infrastructure partners such as GasHawk, Blocknative, Goldsky, and ClickHouse will also participate in subsequent integrations, collaborating on transaction optimization, real-time data, and analytics.

The Open Gas Initiative reportedly provides agreement parties with gas rebate structure design and gas cost estimation, while also offering users gas expenditure query and gas ID generation functions. ETHGas hopes that this initiative will drive the industry towards a "Gasless Future."