According to @VitalikButerin, Ethereum needs a trustless onchain gas futures market—a prediction market on the BASEFEE—to create a forward-looking price signal for network fees. Source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025. He states such contracts would allow users to hedge against future gas prices and effectively prepay for a specific quantity of gas within defined time intervals. Source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025. He adds that while fees are low today, uncertainty remains over the next two years, and he expects fee relief from higher gas limits via BAL, ePBS, and later ZK-EVM, making BASEFEE futures useful for expectation discovery and risk management. Source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025.