Vitalik Buterin Proposes Trustless Futures for Ethereum Gas Stability

What to know:

• The co-founder of Ethereum wants a new system that lets users guess and lock in the costs of future transactions right on the blockchain.
• This idea comes up as gas prices drop but still go up and down a lot, which makes it hard for big users to plan.
• People could hedge their bets in a trustless market, just like they do with stock futures, which would make the network more stable.

For a long time, Ethereum has had to deal with unpredictable transaction fees, but one of its co-founders has come up with a new idea that could change that. Vitalik Buterin recently talked about an idea for a gas futures market on the blockchain. The goal is to make it easier for users to understand what future costs will be. This is one part of the ongoing talks about how to make the network more stable as more people use it.

Buterin sees a prediction market that is connected to Ethereum’s BASEFEE, which is the basic cost of transactions. It’s like buying futures contracts in finance, where you agree on a price now for something that will happen later. People could pay for gas in advance at certain times to avoid price spikes caused by network traffic.

This isn’t just for people who trade things every day; it will help developers who make apps and businesses that deal with a lot of data the most. They could make budgets without worrying about sudden fee increases that would throw off their operations.

Fees on Ethereum have gone down recently. In 2025, the average fee per transaction was about $0.30, down from highs of about $1. But they still go up and down between $0.18 and $2.60, which makes things hard to understand. Buterin talks about people who don’t believe in low long-term fees, even though BAL, ePBS, and ZK-EVM tech have made things better, like raising gas limits.

His idea answers the question that many people have: “What will happen in two years?” Fees are low right now. A blockchain market would let everyone know what the community wants in real time, which would help everyone make better choices.

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