Universal Gas Framework
Execute transactions and payments across EVM and non-EVM chains without native gas tokens using stablecoins or native assets.
Website: https://universalgasframework.com
Cover Block
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Universal Gas Framework (UGF) |
| Tagline | Execute transactions and payments across EVM and non-EVM chains without native gas tokens, using stablecoins or native assets |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Business Model | API / Developer Platform |
| Industry | Fintech |
| Technology | Blockchain / Web3 |
| Founding Team | Co-founders Yash Singh and Rudr Rishi |
| Parent / Affiliated Entity | Tychi Labs (operator of Tychi Wallet) |
Links
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- Website: https://universalgasframework.com/
- Whitepaper: https://universalgasframework.com/assets/whitepaper/ugf-whitepaper.pdf
- Affiliated product (Tychi Wallet): https://tychiwallet.com/
- LinkedIn (Tychi Labs): https://nz.linkedin.com/company/tychi-limited
- X / Twitter (Tychi Wallet): https://x.com/tychiwallet
- App Store (Tychi Wallet): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tychi-wallet/id6751274420
Executive Summary
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Universal Gas Framework (UGF) is a cross-chain execution layer built by Sydney-based Tychi Labs that lets users and AI agents transact across EVM and non-EVM blockchains without holding native gas tokens, paying instead in stablecoins such as USDC or EURC, or in native assets they already own [universalgasframework.com]. The product addresses one of the more persistent friction points in multi-chain Web3: the requirement to source and hold a different gas token for every chain a user or agent touches. UGF's published documentation describes a unified execution layer in which a user can, for example, pay gas once on Base with ETH and then interact across multiple chains without acquiring native tokens elsewhere [Tychi Labs LinkedIn]. The framework is authored by co-founders Yash Singh and Rudr Rishi, both associated with Tychi Labs, the team behind the Tychi Wallet consumer product on iOS [universalgasframework.com whitepaper] [apps.apple.com]. Funding, stage, and investor information are not publicly disclosed, and no third-party press has covered UGF's commercial traction, which positions the company as an early, primary-source-only story for now. A separate Tychi Wallet partnership with TaskOn was reported in August 2025, suggesting the broader Tychi stack is in active distribution [cointrust.com, August 2025]. The next 12 to 18 months will turn on three observable signals: developer adoption of the UGF SDK, integration announcements with chains or wallets beyond the Tychi ecosystem, and the emergence of AI-agent transaction volume, which UGF explicitly markets toward [universalgasframework.com].
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed by the company's own website and whitepaper plus one third-party item (cointrust.com, August 2025); no independent funding, revenue, or customer disclosures are available.
Taxonomy Snapshot
| Axis | Value |
|---|---|
| Business Model | API / Developer Platform |
| Industry / Vertical | Fintech, on-chain payments and gas abstraction |
| Technology Type | Blockchain / Web3 cross-chain execution |
| Geography | Sydney, Australia (headquarters) |
| Founding Team | Two co-founders (Yash Singh, Rudr Rishi) |
Company Overview
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Universal Gas Framework is a project authored by Tychi Labs, a Sydney-headquartered Web3 team also known for the Tychi Wallet consumer application [universalgasframework.com whitepaper] [tychiwallet.com]. The UGF whitepaper, hosted on the company's own domain, lists Yash Singh and Rudr Rishi as the named contacts and identifies Tychi Labs as the originating organization [universalgasframework.com, whitepaper]. The Tychi Labs LinkedIn entity is registered in New Zealand under the name "Tychi Limited," suggesting a corporate structure that spans more than one Asia-Pacific jurisdiction [LinkedIn].
The public milestone trail is short and recent. The Tychi Wallet iOS app is live on the US App Store under the developer identifier 6751274420 [apps.apple.com]. In August 2025, the third-party crypto outlet CoinTrust reported a partnership between Tychi Wallet and TaskOn, a Web3 community engagement platform, framed as a step toward broader Web3 onboarding [cointrust.com, August 2025]. UGF itself is presented through a documentation site, a whitepaper, and a series of blog posts covering AI-agent execution and x402-style payments, all published on universalgasframework.com [universalgasframework.com].
Founding year, legal entity details, and total capital raised are not publicly disclosed. The company has not, to date, surfaced through Crunchbase, PitchBook, or major venture press in any form that this review could verify, which is consistent with a team operating in stealth or in a pre-announcement phase rather than one that has run an institutional fundraising process.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed by universalgasframework.com, tychiwallet.com, and the Tychi Labs LinkedIn page; corporate registration and founding date are not publicly available.
Product and Technology
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UGF positions itself as a unified execution layer that abstracts away the need to hold native gas tokens on each chain a user touches. Per the company's own documentation, the framework "lets users and AI agents execute transactions across EVM and non-EVM chains without holding native gas tokens" and accepts payment in stablecoins like USDC and EURC or in native assets the user already holds [universalgasframework.com] [PUBLIC]. A blog post elaborates on the consumer flow: a user can pay gas once on Base in ETH and then interact across multiple chains without sourcing native tokens on each one [Tychi Labs LinkedIn] [PUBLIC].
The whitepaper describes a fee model built around a breakdown of computation and storage costs that are combined into a native gas fee estimate, which UGF then settles on the user's behalf in their chosen payment asset [universalgasframework.com whitepaper] [PUBLIC]. Two product surfaces are discussed in the company's blog: support for AI-agent execution (machine-initiated transactions that should not require a human to top up gas balances) and compatibility with x402-style HTTP payment flows, an emerging pattern for monetizing API calls with on-chain micropayments [universalgasframework.com] [PUBLIC]. Tychi Wallet appears to be the most visible reference implementation of the framework, with the iOS app providing a consumer-facing entry point [apps.apple.com] [PUBLIC].
The technology stack beyond what the whitepaper describes is not publicly documented. Specific chain coverage (which non-EVM chains are live versus planned), settlement architecture, custody model for the stablecoin balances used to pay gas, and the security audit status of the contracts are not disclosed in materials this review could verify. Investors evaluating the technical claims should request the chain coverage matrix and any third-party audit reports directly from the team.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed by multiple pages on universalgasframework.com and the Tychi Labs LinkedIn post; no independent technical review or audit report is publicly available.
Market Research and Opportunity
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Gas abstraction is becoming an infrastructure category in its own right because the multi-chain reality of Web3 has outrun the user-experience assumptions of any single chain. Every additional chain a user or developer wants to support multiplies the operational overhead of acquiring, holding, and reconciling native gas tokens, and that friction is the wedge UGF is targeting [universalgasframework.com].
No named third-party report sizes the gas-abstraction submarket specifically, and this report will not invent one. The relevant adjacent indicators are the rise of account abstraction (ERC-4337) infrastructure, the growth of stablecoin payment rails (USDC and EURC are both explicitly supported by UGF [universalgasframework.com]), and the emergence of agent-initiated on-chain transactions, which UGF identifies as a first-class use case in its blog content [universalgasframework.com]. The x402 payment pattern that UGF discusses is itself an indicator that HTTP-native, machine-driven micropayments are being treated by infrastructure builders as a near-term workload rather than a speculative one [universalgasframework.com].
Demand drivers, in plain terms, fall into three buckets. First, wallet and exchange teams want to reduce the number of support tickets generated by users stuck without gas on a destination chain. Second, application developers building cross-chain experiences want a single integration that lets their users pay fees in whatever asset they already hold. Third, AI-agent frameworks need a way to pay for on-chain actions without a human in the loop refilling balances, which is structurally incompatible with the legacy native-gas model. UGF's published positioning addresses all three [universalgasframework.com].
Regulatory and macro forces cut both ways. Stablecoin-denominated fee payment benefits from the broader institutional acceptance of USDC and EURC as settlement assets, but it also inherits stablecoin regulatory exposure in jurisdictions tightening rules on payment tokens. Cross-chain infrastructure remains a category that has historically attracted security incidents at the bridge layer, which raises the bar on audit transparency for any new entrant.
Data Accuracy: ORANGE -- Market framing rests on UGF's own positioning materials; no independent sizing report for gas abstraction was confirmed in the cited research.
Competitive Landscape
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UGF enters a segment that already contains well-funded account-abstraction and paymaster providers, but the structured facts surfaced no named, head-to-head competitor for this report to compare against in a table.
The competitive map, in prose, has three layers. The first layer is account-abstraction infrastructure providers that offer paymaster services, the contracts that let a third party sponsor or accept alternative payment for gas. These providers are typically EVM-centric and oriented toward developers integrating ERC-4337-style smart accounts. The second layer is wallet-native gas abstraction, where a consumer wallet hides gas mechanics from its own users but does not necessarily expose a framework other developers can build on. Tychi Wallet itself sits in this layer and acts as the reference implementation of the broader UGF framework [apps.apple.com] [PUBLIC]. The third layer is cross-chain intent and solver networks, which solve a superset of the problem (any cross-chain action, not just gas) but at higher integration cost.
Where UGF appears to differentiate, based on its own materials, is the explicit support for non-EVM chains alongside EVM, and the explicit framing around AI-agent execution and x402 payment flows [universalgasframework.com] [PUBLIC]. Most paymaster offerings in the public domain are EVM-only, and most are designed around human-initiated transactions rather than machine-initiated ones. The durability of that edge depends on two things the public record cannot yet confirm: how many non-EVM chains UGF actually supports in production, and whether the AI-agent transaction volume materializes on a timeline that rewards an early specialist.
Where UGF is most exposed is distribution. Larger account-abstraction providers have multi-year head starts on developer relations, SDK polish, and integrations with the major wallet and exchange teams. A specialist framework, however technically elegant, has to either win a category-defining customer (a major wallet, a major agent framework, a major exchange) or build a developer community of its own, and neither is yet visible in the public record [PRIVATE]. The most plausible 18-month scenario: UGF wins if a leading AI-agent framework standardizes on it as the default gas-payment layer, because that locks in a workload the EVM-only incumbents are slower to serve; UGF loses ground if a well-capitalized paymaster provider ships first-class non-EVM and agent support before UGF reaches developer escape velocity.
Data Accuracy: ORANGE -- No named competitors were confirmed in the structured facts; competitive framing is inferred from category knowledge and UGF's own positioning.
Opportunity
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If gas abstraction becomes the default plumbing for cross-chain and agent-driven transactions, the framework that wins the category becomes infrastructure on the order of an RPC provider or a node service, and UGF is positioned to compete for that slot.
The headline opportunity. UGF's most ambitious plausible outcome is to become the default gas-payment layer for AI agents transacting on-chain. The cited evidence that makes this reachable rather than aspirational is narrow but specific: the team has already published product material targeting AI-agent execution and x402-style HTTP payments, two patterns that are converging on the same workload (machine-initiated, micropayment-denominated, cross-chain transactions) [universalgasframework.com]. If agent transaction volume scales as the major AI labs and agent frameworks promise it will, the infrastructure layer that absorbs that workload first tends to keep it, because integration switching costs in payments infrastructure are real.
Growth scenarios.
| Scenario | What happens | Catalyst | Why it's plausible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent default | UGF becomes the standard gas-payment layer embedded in a major AI-agent framework | A reference integration with a widely adopted agent SDK | UGF already publishes AI-agent-specific product material [universalgasframework.com] |
| Wallet OEM | UGF is licensed by other wallet teams as the gas-abstraction backend, the way Tychi Wallet uses it today | A second wallet beyond Tychi adopts the framework publicly | Tychi Wallet is live on iOS as the reference consumer surface [apps.apple.com] |
| Non-EVM specialist | UGF becomes the go-to gas abstraction provider for non-EVM chains where EVM-centric incumbents are weak | A flagship integration with a major non-EVM ecosystem | Non-EVM support is explicitly part of UGF's stated positioning [universalgasframework.com] |
What compounding looks like. The flywheel in this category is integration density. Each chain UGF supports makes the framework more valuable to every developer who needs to support that chain, and each developer integration makes the framework more valuable to every wallet that wants to offer those apps to its users. A second-order effect kicks in if AI agents standardize on UGF: agent transaction volume is, in principle, more predictable and higher-frequency than human transaction volume, which improves unit economics on a per-transaction basis. The Tychi Wallet and TaskOn partnership reported in August 2025 is an early signal that the broader Tychi stack is in distribution mode rather than purely in research mode [cointrust.com, August 2025], although the partnership is for the wallet rather than UGF specifically.
The size of the win. No named third-party report sizes gas abstraction as a standalone market, so any dollar figure here would be invented and is omitted. The directional comparable is the public market valuation of cross-chain and Web3 infrastructure providers more broadly, which has supported multi-billion-dollar private valuations for category leaders in account abstraction, RPC infrastructure, and bridging. If UGF captures a defensible position in the agent-driven gas-payment workload, a comparable infrastructure outcome is reachable (scenario, not a forecast). The base case is more modest: UGF remains the in-house framework powering Tychi Wallet and a handful of partner integrations, in which case the value accrues primarily to the consumer wallet rather than to UGF as a standalone platform.
Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Opportunity framing is built on UGF's own published product positioning plus one third-party partnership report (cointrust.com, August 2025); no revenue, customer count, or transaction-volume data was confirmed.
Sources
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[universalgasframework.com] Universal Gas Framework (UGF) Documentation | https://universalgasframework.com/docs
[universalgasframework.com] UGF Whitepaper (Tychi Labs, Yash Singh, Rudr Rishi) | https://universalgasframework.com/assets/whitepaper/ugf-whitepaper.pdf
[universalgasframework.com] AI Agents Execution blog post | https://universalgasframework.com/blog/ai-agents-execution
[universalgasframework.com] x402 Payments blog post | https://universalgasframework.com/blog/x402-payments
[universalgasframework.com] What is UGF blog post | https://universalgasframework.com/blog/what-is-ugf
[tychiwallet.com] Universal Gas Framework: The End of Multi-Chain Gas Complexity | https://tychiwallet.com/blog/universal-gas-framework-the-end-of-multi-chain-gas-complexity/
[LinkedIn] Tychi Labs (Tychi Limited) company page | https://nz.linkedin.com/company/tychi-limited
[LinkedIn] Rudr Rishi profile, Tychi Limited | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishi-rudr/
[LinkedIn] Nitin Kaushik profile, Tychi Limited | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrnitinkaushik/
[cointrust.com, August 2025] TaskOn and Tychi Wallet Unite to Advance Web3 Adoption | https://www.cointrust.com/market-news/taskon-and-tychi-wallet-unite-to-advance-web3-adoption
[apps.apple.com] Tychi Wallet on the App Store | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tychi-wallet/id6751274420
[x.com] Tychi Wallet on X | https://x.com/tychiwallet
[shine.com] Web3 Community Manager Job at Tychi Labs | https://www.shine.com/jobs/web3-community-manager/tychi-labs/18332490
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