According to @VitalikButerin, Ethereum needs a trustless onchain gas futures or prediction market on the BASEFEE to provide a clear signal of market expectations for future gas fees and to let users hedge gas price risk, effectively prepaying for gas usage. source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025. He adds that while fees are low today, a futures market would address concerns about fees in two years as scalability advances via gaslimit increases from BAL, ePBS, and later ZK-EVM, enabling users to lock in specific gas quantities for defined time intervals. source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025. He cites Oiler Network as an example effort and calls for further maturation of this market segment. source: @VitalikButerin on X, Dec 6, 2025; oiler.network.