Meta-transactions and gas sponsorship

With Supercool's relayer, you can relay traditional meta-transactions to let your users create gasless transactions. You can use meta-transaction standards such as ERC-2771 and EIP-712 or you can use whatever custom meta-transaction flow you have built.
When relaying gasless meta-transactions, you will have to make sure that your relayer account is funded with ETH (or other native tokens) for gas money. Your API key and secret correspond to a given relayer account.
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Supercool meta-transaction relayer can:
let your users transact gaslessly
let your users users pay for transactions with ERC-20 coins
bundle transactions together for gas savings
create transaction sessions so users are interrupted less often to sign transactions
pre-sign transactions to be executed later when certain conditions are met; for example, allow your users to create NFT limit orders
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Here's a little code snippet to demo meta-transactions:
// Heads up: this NPM module is not published yet
import {supercool} from '@supercoolxyz/relayer-client'
import {ethers} from 'ethers'
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// define these
const contractAddress = '0x...'
const abi = '{...}'
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// replace this with whatever function creates your EOA signer
const eoaSigner = getEOASigner()
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const provider = new supercool.RelayerProvider({apiKey: ..., apiSecret: ...})
const signer = supercool.GaslessForwarderSigner.fromEOASigner(
    provider,
    eoaSigner,
    // meta-transactions must be routed through a forwarder for
    // signature verification and nonce-based deduplication
    supercool.getForwarderAddress()
)
const contract = new ethers.Contract(contractAddress, abi, signer)
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// Making smart contract calls with this `GaslessForwarderSigner` will
// create gasless meta-transactions for the underlying end-user.
await contract.buyToken(...)
Note that the @supercoolxyz/relayer-client package is not published yet, but you can reach out to us at [email protected] for early access.
traditional meta-transactions versus ERC-4337
Traditional meta-transactions work with any type of wallet: EOAs, ERC-4337 wallets, and old-school smart contract wallets. The downside, is that dapps and protocols must be meta-tx aware.
In summary:
Traditional meta-txs:
Pros: user can keep using their normal EOA (Privy wallet, Metamask, etc.)
Cons: requires dapps and protocols to support meta-txs
ERC-4337:
Pros: gasless transactions, bundling, etc. work with all other smart contracts
Cons: extra setup cost and an extra wallet address to manage
See also
​Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) bundlers and paymasters​
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