Fogo Makes Gas Invisible Without Making It Free
Fogo’s trick isn’t no fees. It’s making fees someone else’s problem—quietly, by design.
In its own docs, “Fogo Sessions” are basically an account-abstraction + paymaster setup: you sign once, a scoped session key handles actions for a while, and transaction fees get covered through a paymaster path in the background. The cost still exists; it just stops interrupting the user every 30 seconds.
That matters because “gas” is rarely what annoys people—stopping to deal with gas is. Coinbase/Base frames the same idea bluntly: even tiny fees can confuse new users, and paymasters are mostly a UX decision disguised as infrastructure.
The other half of the story is why they’d bother: Fogo’s mainnet launch coverage leans hard into speed—around 40ms block times—which is exactly the kind of environment where signature pop-ups and balance checks feel like sand in the gears.