Ethereum's core developers have advanced EIP-8141, formally titled the Frame Transaction proposal, into the specification track for a future network upgrade. The proposal solves a specific and long-standing friction point: on Ethereum today, every transaction requires ETH to pay gas, even a transaction whose entire purpose is moving a stablecoin that has nothing to do with ETH. A user holding only USDC, for instance, cannot send it without first acquiring a small amount of ETH from somewhere else.