Opportunities and Considerations of Ethereum’s Blockspace Future

This article provides historical analogies to traditional derivatives markets demonstrating the key considerations for developing a blockspace derivatives product.

✍🏼 by Drew Van der Werff and Alex Matthews of BH Digital in collaboration with Frontier. 🗓️ July 6, 2023 TL;DR History has shown that derivatives can strengthen spot markets and provide additional tools to stakeholders in the supply chain to manage their businesses. Similarly, Ethereum’s spot gas market could potentially benefit from derivatives markets With the development of Ethereum gas derivatives, there is an opportunity to enable a comprehensive suite of products for better user and developer experiences (i.e., they can rely on paying a fixed price for gas) as well as increased efficie

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