April 15, 2026 – Georgetown, Cayman Islands
The three-year contract will commit $3 billion in ETH to ETHGas’ High Performance Staking Service and represents an important step toward a pioneering pricing infrastructure for Ethereum’s growing institutional settlement layer.
ETHGasa performance infrastructure that powers markets and execution guarantees for Ethereum, and ether.fi, The leading on-chain banking alternative and non-custodial staking protocol today announced a $3 billion commercial deal to advance the development of institutional blockspace markets on Ethereum.
The gap in Ethereum’s market infrastructure
Ethereum currently allocates block space through a real-time spot auction with no mechanism for forward pricing, prepurchase, or execution guarantees. Every block is contested at the last second, resulting in validators earning unpredictable revenue, applications having no certainty of execution, and institutions lacking the risk management tools to operate at scale. As throughput grows and institutional activity accelerates, this is evidenced by: over $25 billion With ETH held through institutional vehicles, the lack of a futures market for blockspace is becoming an increasingly critical gap in Ethereum’s financial infrastructure.
How ETHGas solves this problem for Wall Street
ETHGas creates an exchange layer where validators can pre-sell future block staking rights and buyers, including rollups, traders, solvers and on-chain applications, can purchase guaranteed execution in advance. This introduces a forward curve to the Ethereum blockspace, enabling true price discovery for the network’s most fundamental resource and the risk management tools that institutional participants need to operate on Ethereum at scale.
Structure of the supply side
A forward market for Blockspace only works with extensive, committed participation from validators. That’s exactly what ether.fi offers, with over 2.8 million ETH stakes under management and one of the largest validator footprints on Ethereum. Its $3 billion commitment to ETHGas’s HPS service creates the supply-side foundation the market needs to provide credible execution guarantees at scale to institutional buyers, rollups and on-chain applications.
“Every major commodity market in history has evolved from spot to futures. Next comes the Ethereum blockspace. The ether.fi commitment gives us the depth of validation to make this market real, and with it the foundation for Ethereum to act as a settlement layer for global institutional capital,” he said Kevin Lepsoe, Founder and CEO of ETHGas.
Partnership conditions
As part of the agreement, ether.fi has agreed to commit approximately 40% of its current ETH holdings, equivalent to $3 billion, to ETHGas’ High Performance Staking (HPS) service for a period of three years and will be made available immediately upon completion. ether.fi has also agreed to exclusively use ETHGas’ pre-confirmation platform during the term. Commitments are subject to ongoing performance thresholds, and the parties may expand the scope and scope of the partnership under a separate agreement.
The three-year structure reflects the scale of infrastructure under construction. Building a deep, liquid market for Blockspace futures takes time, but the benefits extend far beyond institutions, validators, and traders. Companies and developers building on Ethereum get something they’ve never had before: the ability to design applications with guaranteed execution schedules and predictable transaction costs. This is changing the construction possibilities and supporting the expansion of tokenization on Wall Street and the use of Ethereum in consumer applications where transaction costs such as electricity become an “invisible” cost to the consumer.
“Providing validator capacity to ETHGas is a direct extension of our mission to maximize the power of stake ETH. Pre-confirmations improve execution security for our users, and participation in a structured futures market for Blockspace opens up yield opportunities never before seen. We are building on where Ethereum is going, not where it is today,” he said Mike SilagadzeCEO and founder of ether.fi.
The partnership sets a precedent for how large ETH holders can participate in the next phase of Ethereum’s development. As tokenized assets move on-chain at scale and institutional demand for predictable, reliable execution grows, Blockspace is becoming a critical infrastructure layer for global financial markets. ETHGas and ether.fi’s commitment marks the beginning of a broader effort to build the validator depth and market structure Ethereum needs to meet this demand.
About ETH Gas
ETHGas is a settlement infrastructure for Ethereum blockspace obligations. ETHGas is transforming the way users interact with Ethereum by enabling low latency, 3ms settlement times, and a comprehensive product suite focused on precision and predictable order execution. ETHGas’ mission is to evolve Ethereum into a real-time network, unlocking the next stage of its development. ETHGas envisions a future where end users can protect themselves from gas price volatility, unlock opportunities for additional yield, and enhance their experience in the Ethereum ecosystem.
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About ether.Fi
ether.fi is the fastest growing on-chain banking alternative with the leading crypto credit card by spending volume, Cash. What started as a restaking protocol has evolved into a complete financial platform – both DeFi native and mainstream users use our vaults, staking and credit card products to bridge their financial lives on-chain and off-chain. ether.fi excels at helping users earn and spend money on their cryptocurrencies with ease and peace of mind.
For more information about ether.fi and its latest developments, please visit X (Twitter) and theirs website.
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