# Adding WETH as gas currency

**URL:** <https://forum.celo.org/t/adding-weth-as-gas-currency/12047>\
**Category:** Governance Proposals\
**Tags:** technical\
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/adding-weth-as-gas-currency/12047 "2025-07-31T16:57:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![martinvol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/martinvol/32/7166_2.png) [@martinvol](https://forum.celo.org/u/martinvol)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/adding-weth-as-gas-currency/12047/1 "2025-07-31T16:57:28Z")

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# Proposal Key Aspects

- **Receiver Entity:** Celo Governance

- **Status:** DRAFT

- **Author(s):** Martín Volpe ([@martinvol](https://github.com/martinvol))

- **Type of Request:** Smart Contract Changes

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# Summary

This proposal aims to add bridged WETH from the Celo native L2 bridge as a gas currency

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# Motivation

As users bridge from Ethereum, one token that they are likely to bridge is ETH (represented as WETH, that’s auto-wrapped by the SuperBridge interface). By allowing users to pay gas directly in WETH, they can start transacting right away without needing to load any other gas currency in their account.

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# Specification

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# Metrics and KPIs

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# Current Status

Ready to be proposed.

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# Timeline and Milestones

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# Detailed Budget

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# Payment Terms

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# Team

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# Additional Support/Resources

Documentation:

1. [Adding Gas Currencies to Celo]( [Introduction - Celo Docs](https://docs.celo.org/learn/add-gas-currency) )

2. [Paying for Gas with Tokens]( [Introduction - Celo Docs](https://docs.celo.org/what-is-celo/about-celo-l1/protocol/transaction/erc20-transaction-fees) )

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**Author:** ![celogovernance](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/celogovernance/32/10106_2.png) [@celogovernance](https://forum.celo.org/u/celogovernance)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/adding-weth-as-gas-currency/12047/2 "2025-12-03T17:15:53Z")

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Congrats @martinvol and team on the successful passing of [CGP-203](https://mondo.celo.org/governance/cgp-203) 🎉

This proposal received overwhelming community support:

- ✅ **YES Votes:** 16,972,883 _(100%)_
- ❌ **NO Votes:** 101 _(0%)_
- ⚪ **Abstain Votes:** 0 _(0%)_
- 🗳 **Total Votes:** 16,972,883
- 👥 **Total Voters:** 188

👏 Big thanks to the community for showing strong support!

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/celo/original/2X/9/9a882695fa14f73cfe1ba50c9472fc823ac639d2.png)