According to @CoinMarketCap, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a trustless onchain gas futures market that would let users lock in transaction fees for specific future time periods. Source: @CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 9, 2025. According to @CoinMarketCap, the proposal is designed to hedge against network cost volatility by enabling predictable gas expenses over defined windows. Source: @CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 9, 2025.

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.