For fifteen years, the promise of blockchain as a global settlement layer has collided with a single, stubborn barrier: Cognitive Load. In the traditional financial world, payment is a seamless action. You swipe, and the cost is absorbed or deducted from the asset you are spending. 

In Web3, that logic breaks. To move USDC, you need ETH. To move a token on a subnet, you need the native coin. It is the equivalent of trying to pay for a coffee with a Visa card, only to be told the transaction fee must be paid in gold dust that you are required to carry separately.

For institutional adoption, this is an annoyance. It creates accounting challenges, complicates custody, and creates a barrier to entry for every user who doesn’t speak crypto.

MakaChain is solving this. Today, the team unveils the MakaChain Mainnet, a sovereign Layer 1 blockchain architected with a single, uncompromising economic directive: The gas token is whatever you have in your wallet.

The End of Gas Anxiety

MakaChain is a payment rail designed to make the blockchain layer invisible to end users. By leveraging a custom Virtual Machine (VM) on a dedicated L1, MakaChain has changed the rules of transaction settlement.

•  Pay With What You Move: Users pay fees in the same token they are transferring. If you send USDC, the fee is a fraction of that USDC. The MakaChain protocol automatically handles the swap, burn, and validator distribution in the background.

• Economic Certainty: In an industry defined by volatility, MakaChain enforces stability. Transaction fees are fixed at $0.10 USD. There is no approximate, no variable fees based on congestion. Everything is fixed.

This changes the blockchain from a speculative environment into a predictable business environment.

“Mass adoption won’t happen as long as people need to understand gas fees just to use blockchain. MakaChain solves this at the foundation level. By eliminating gas fees, we eliminate friction, confusion, and unnecessary learning. When everyday transactions feel natural—when users don’t even realize they’re using crypto—that’s when blockchain truly scales to the world.”

– Tomás Pérez Quevedo, Co-founder of Makachain

Architected for Control

​To achieve this level of economic abstraction, the MakaChain engineering team required absolute control over the chain’s logic. A standard Layer 1 or Layer 2 off-the-shelf solution could not support a hard-coded, fixed USD fee structure or a protocol-level auto-swap for gas.

​MakaChain forked Avalanche’s Proof-of-Authority network to build their sovereign PoA chain with custom Virtual Machine (VM) rules. 

This allowed the MakaChain team to embed their ‘Universal Gas’ logic directly into the protocol and implement a custom Failsafe mechanism that allows validators to pause the network during critical threats. This feature was demanded by the most cautious enterprise partners but rarely found in today’s decentralized systems.

Operational Reliability Partner: Zeeve

With the architecture and economic model defined, MakaChain required an infrastructure partner capable of meeting enterprise Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

​MakaChain chose Zeeve to handle the physical infrastructure operations and node hosting. We operate as the silent engine room, ensuring the network remains online, synced, and performant 24/7.

• ​Infrastructure Management: Zeeve hosts and monitors the validator nodes, ensuring the consensus mechanism remains secure without requiring MakaChain’s team to manage hardware.
• ​Enterprise Connectivity: The partnership ensures MakaChain integrators have access to high-performance, zero-latency RPC endpoints.
• ​Transparency: Zeeve integrated the TraceHawk block explorer, providing MakaChain users and auditors with a real-time, transparent view of the ledger.

“When you strip away the hype, blockchain is infrastructure. And infrastructure must be boringly reliable, MakaChain is changing the economic logic of how gas fees are paid. To do that, the underlying machinery must be flawless. We are proud to support their vision by handling the critical node operations and network uptime, allowing the MakaChain team to focus entirely on their mission: fixing payments.”

– Dr. Ravi Chamria, Co-founder & CEO of Zeeve

When a user pays a fee in a stablecoin, the protocol splits it: 50% to the Maka Foundation for growth, 40% to validators for the first year, then to 25%.  After the first year, 15% will stay with the foundation, 7% burned to reduce supply, and 3% to liquidity reinforcement. This happens automatically, creating a deflationary, self-sustaining economy that strengthens as volume grows.

The infrastructure is live. The friction is gone. The ability to move value without the headache of managing gas tokens is finally a reality. For the rest of the industry, the question is no longer which chain is faster? It is: Why are we still paying for gas the old way?

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