1

Create Your Gelato Account

Sign up on the Gelato App to establish an account. This account is the foundation for setting up relay tasks and managing gas sponsorships.
2

Create a Relay App

Within your Gelato account, create a relay app on the specific network where you plan to sponsor transactions. This step enables sponsored transactions on your chosen chain. Checkout supported networks here
3

Retrieve Your Sponsor API Key

After creating the relay app, navigate to its dashboard to locate your Sponsor API Key. This key links your Gelato setup with 1Balance for gas sponsorship.
Gelato Relay now supports API key rotation, allowing users to create and delete API keys. This helps prevent unauthorized usage in case an API key is exposed.
4

Activate your Sponsor API Key

Activate your sponsor API key by allowing access to all contracts on a network, or restrict it to specific contracts or specific functions.Here, you can configure different networks. For each network, you can choose to allow access to all target contracts or limit it to selected contracts or specific functions.
5

Deposit Funds into 1Balance

Add funds to your 1Balance account according to your target environment:
  • Mainnets: Deposit USDC.
  • Testnets: Deposit Sepolia ETH.
Since 1Balance is deployed on Polygon, you can deposit USDC in one step, and deposits from other networks are supported via Circle CCTP. Learn more.