Overview
- Vitalik Buterin proposed a market to buy commitments for future gas usage on-chain, effectively creating futures tied to BASEFEE.
- The concept focuses on predictable, hedgeable costs rather than lowering today’s fees, turning volatile expenses into forward-priced commitments.
- Heavy users such as exchanges, rollups, wallets, traders, and enterprises could lock in costs for specified time windows to stabilize operations.
- No formal Ethereum Improvement Proposal or implementation timeline has been filed, and earlier experiments like Oiler did not achieve broad liquidity.
- Analysts highlight open challenges including attracting liquidity, preventing validator-influenced manipulation, and integrating the design with existing tools and rollups.