ETHGas and ether.fi Strike $3Bn Deal to Advance Institutional Blockspace Markets

ETHGas and ether.fi Strike $3Bn Deal to Advance Institutional Blockspace Markets

April 15th, 2026 – Georgetown, Cayman Islands ETHGas, a performance infrastructure bringing forward markets and execution guarantees to Ethereum, and ether.fi, the leading onchain banking alternative and non-custodial staking protocol, today announced a $3Bn commercial deal to advance the development of institutional-grade blockspace markets on Ethereum. The Gap in Ethereum’s Market Infrastructure Ethereum currently allocates blockspace through a real-time spot auction with no mechanism for forward pricing, pre-purchase, or execution guarantees. Every block is contested at the last second, leaving validators with unpredictable revenue, applications without certainty of execution, and institutions without the risk-management tools to operate at scale. As throughput grows and institutional activity accelerates, evidenced by over $25Bn in ETH held across institutional vehicles, the absence

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