Many beginners don't have ETH for gas fees. That's a challenge commonly known as the barrier to entry for blockchains (especially Ethereum).

Smart contracts that support meta-transactions (ethereum/EIPs#1776) allow users to interact with the contract by simply signing them in their wallets.

DEV tokens are already deployed and have no upgradability, so creating a paired token to support meta-transactions. For example, MDEV.

• MDEV is designed to be converted with DEV on a 1:1 basis, and MDEV can achieve gasless transfers with functions like metaTransfer.
• Staking and unstaking could be made gasless by having the Lockup contract support meta-transactions.

MDEV implementations will not be built into the protocol core because meta-transactions require an off-chain server.