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Gas Abstraction Isn't Free: How to Calculate What Markup Your Agent System Actually Pays

A single transaction's markup looks negligible, but agent systems are built for high-frequency execution — transaction count multiplied by markup percentage is the number that actually matters.
Alex Mercer · August 03, 2026
"Pay gas in Stablecoin, no need to manage native tokens" — this describes the operational convenience of an agent system, but convenience itself has a price. Most teams, when adopting Gas Abstraction, only see the benefit of "no more hassle managing native tokens," without factoring the markup fee a paymaster charges into long-term operational cost — until the bill accumulates to a certain...
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