ETHGas Surpasses $2B FDV as Gasless Ethereum Goes Live

Today, Ethereum auctions its blockspace in a spot market roughly every 12 seconds. Fees spike without warning, execution timing is uncertain, and users compete at the last second for block inclusion. ETHGas replaces that scramble with a forward market: validators sell commitments on future blocks, while builders, rollups, wallets, and institutional desks buy guaranteed inclusion and execution at a known price.

The result is confirmation times compressed from ~12 seconds toward the millisecond range, throughput measured in tens of thousands of transactions per second, and, for end users, an experience where gas becomes invisible.

As ETHGas founder Kevin Lepsoe, formerly of Morgan Stanley’s financial engineering group, has framed it: “Every major commodity market in history has moved from spot to futures. Ethereum blockspace is next.”

The $2B milestone arrives on the back of real product traction, not hype. ETHGas’s Open Gas (OG) program, its gas-rebate initiative, lets protocols and dApps sponsor transactions so their users pay zero gas. Instead of asking every wallet to hold ETH for fees, protocols fund rebates to incentivize the on-chain activity that matters to them.

Blue-chip DeFi names have already plugged in, including Pendle and EtherFi, exactly the kind of integrations that move a “gasless Ethereum” narrative from whitepaper to default user experience. Each new partner widens the surface area where everyday Ethereum users simply never see a gas prompt again.

That momentum was supercharged in April, when restaking giant EtherFi signed a three-year, $3 billion commercial agreement to supply validator liquidity to ETHGas, committing roughly 40% of its ETH holdings (over 2.8 million ETH) to ETHGas’s High Performance Staking service. The deal deepened the liquidity underpinning ETHGas’s blockspace markets and gave the institutional “blockspace as an asset class” thesis its loudest public endorsement yet.

Surgence Labs partnered with ETHGas to build the growth engine around that product story. The engagement spanned narrative and positioning, an always-on content and community system, segmented KOL activation across retail, validator, and institutional audiences, and earned media coordinated around every major beat, from the January token generation event through the EtherFi deal and beyond.

The results speak for themselves:

• 300,000+ community members grown across X, Telegram, and Discord
• $13B in tracked TVL across the ecosystem
• 10x social growth in the first month of the engagement

ETHGas’s run reflects a broader shift: the infrastructure that makes Ethereum faster and cheaper to use is where serious capital is concentrating. With gas markets, gasless UX, and institutional liquidity now converging under one roof, ETHGas has moved from an interesting thesis to a working piece of Ethereum’s settlement plumbing. A $2 billion FDV is the market pricing that in.

The team has framed its longer-term ambition as “Realtime Ethereum,” a multi-year push toward sub-100ms settlement and gas costs that are predictable and, increasingly, invisible. Each Open Gas integration, each block of validator liquidity, and each institutional desk that begins trading blockspace as an asset moves that roadmap from vision to default. Doubling FDV in two months is less a finish line than a checkpoint.

Surgence Labs is proud to have played a part in the journey so far, and will be watching the next leg closely.

ETHGas is a real-time Ethereum infrastructure protocol that turns blockspace into a tradable commodity, enabling instant settlement, gasless transactions, and improved validator yields. Learn more at ethgas.com.

Surgence Labs is a leading Web3 marketing agency and go-to-market partner. Over four years, it has driven $300M+ in client revenue across 100+ Web3 teams and 200+ campaigns, spanning DeFi, infrastructure, L1/L2, gaming, AI, and consumer crypto. Partners include ETHGas, Arbitrum, Polygon, Immutable, and Animoca Brands. Learn more at surgence.io.