{"id":91934,"date":"2025-12-08T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=91934"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:15:11","slug":"vitalik-buterin-proposes-decentralized-gas-futures-market-for-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-proposes-decentralized-gas-futures-market-for-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Proposes Decentralized Gas Futures Market for Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has advocated for the creation of a decentralized gas futures market. He believes such a tool would allow for hedging against potential fee increases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market.<\/p>\n<p>(Like, a prediction market on the BASEFEE)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard people ask: &#8220;today fees are low, but what about in 2 years? You say they&#8217;ll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM, but do I believe you?&#8221;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1997279838252531823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Buterin highlighted the community&#8217;s skepticism regarding future transaction costs. Despite planned technical upgrades aimed at maintaining low fees, users are seeking additional assurances.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developer, a prediction market would address these issues by:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>providing a clear signal of market participants&#8217; expectations regarding gas prices;<\/li>\n<li>allowing risk hedging through the actual prepayment of fees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman joined the discussion, reminding that users regret abandoning old mechanisms like Gas Tokens in vain\u2014these solutions created network security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Same with the max tx gas cap. Same with every gas cost increase. Same with the selfdestruct nerf.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1997667532505784612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Buterin supported his colleague, drawing parallels with other unpopular yet significant protocol changes. He cited examples such as the introduction of a gas limit on transactions and the restriction of the <span data-descr=\"an operational command that destroys the calling contract, freeing up storage space\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SELFDESTRUCT<\/span> function.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on December 4, Ethereum developers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fusaka-hard-fork-goes-live-on-ethereum-mainnet\">deployed<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fusaka-upgrade-what-it-means-for-ethereums-future\">Fusaka<\/a> update on the mainnet. Shortly thereafter, a failure in the popular consensus client Prysm <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/validator-activity-in-ethereum-drops-25-following-fusaka-deployment\">occurred<\/a>, disabling part of the network&#8217;s validators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buterin has advocated for the creation of a decentralized gas futures market. 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