# Fees and gas A user should never have to buy ETH to send a dollar. In a zone they do not. There are two gas layers, and neither one lands on your end user as a separate thing they have to acquire.  Inside the zone, execution is metered, but the gas token is whatever you configure, and you both set the rate and collect it, because you run the only sequencer. Zone gas is really a spam and metering control, not a cost passed to anyone. A payroll operator paying its own people will set it to zero. Settling to the host chain costs real ETH, and that is your cost as the operator: submitting a batch (which runs the proof verification, the big recurring cost, and the reason batches exist) and processing withdrawals. You recover it from the users who cause it through a deposit fee and a withdrawal fee, both charged in the token being moved, never in ETH. You collect token fees on the edges and spend ETH on host gas. :::note In V1 the automated on-chain fee deduction is on the V2 list, so today the operator simply bears host gas. Gas sponsorship for non-custodial users becomes first-class in V2 through an ERC-4337 paymaster. Either way the end user never needs a zone gas balance. :::