Transfer Ethereum tokens without Ether — An ERC20 Improvement to Seriously Consider

Ethereum has been around for four years now. The platform that was to “Build Unstoppable Applications” quickly turned out to be a Token Manufacturing Plant which churns out Ethereum tokens for any conceivable idea, object or abstraction imaginable. From those that can be used for ‘Sin Forgiving’ (Jesus Coin) to those that are probably not meant for such use (SpankChain), the tokenization train is seeing more people get on board day by day. However, the train which everyone seems to miss is this one called adoption, also known as ‘getting real users to come on to your platform and do stuff with your highly valuable token’.

One of the primary reasons for the low adoption rate is the poor user experience and the high barrier to interaction that this ecosystem imposes on its users. Convincing investors to buy your ICO tokens is one thing; turning your ICO investors into daily users, or even attracting new users on to your platform is an entirely different ball game.

Token projects and dApps at large have had to compromise user experience in exchange for integrating Ethereum tokens on their platform. Having to deal with 15-second confirmation times, and the occasional failed transaction is not something most users (or for that matter even developers) are accustomed to handling. One…