If you're a validator or staking operator, you're in a constant battle for yield. You’ve optimized your setup, you’re running MEV-Boost, and you're squeezing every last basis point out of your stake. But it feels like you've hit a ceiling. The rewards are unpredictable, and the competition is fierce.

What if we told you there's a whole new revenue stream waiting for you? One that’s more predictable, more profitable, and positions you at the very center of a faster, more efficient "Realtime Ethereum."

This isn't an incremental upgrade. This is the next evolution of validator operations.

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Justin Drake, a prominent researcher at the Ethereum Foundation renowned for his expertise in cryptographic protocols and blockchain technology, shared his view on July 8, 2025, during the Blockspace Futures Day Fireside Chat.

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The Certainty Premium: A New Paradigm for Blockspace

Among the core tenets of economics is that people pay for certainty. Entire industries are built on this principle, from insurance to finance.

The blockspace market is no different.

ETHGas enables Validators to sell blockspace ahead of time in an active, open market—all before the traditional MEV-Boost ‘spot’ auction even begins. By securing blockspace in advance, traders get the certainty they need, and you, the validator, capture a significant premium for providing it.

Structuring Raw Blockspace into a Suite of High-Value Products

The ETHGas marketplace deconstructs your block into a suite of tradable products, allowing us to find the perfect buyer for every part of it and maximize your revenue:

• Inclusion Preconfirmations: Slices of generic blockspace where you can reserve gas within the block (e.g. 300k units of gas).
• Execution Preconfirmations: Similar to Inclusion Preconfirmations above, but for specific transactions that require a specific result.
• Whole Block Commitments: Our Whole Block market provides maximum flexibility to a buyer beyond any combination of the above. Such a buyer may also, at their discretion, then strip apart the block and sell off the individual components, for example:
  • Top-of-Block: The Whole Block owner may place their trades/bundles at the Top-of-Block, and then auctioning off the rest, or
  • Bottom-of-Block: In this instance, the Whole Block owner may take both the top and bottom of the block.
• Multi-Block Commitments: Alongside a single block, a buyer may purchase multiple, sequential blocks to the extent they appear in the marketplace. For a small subset of blocks, the value of sequential blocks is superlinear— that is, worth more of the sum of individual blocks.

The ETHGas Difference: How This Compares to MEV-Boost

This isn't just a new feature; it's a fundamentally superior model for yield generation.

• Certainty Premiums: The Whole Block market is often compared to that of MEV-Boost and in its base case is expected to command certainty premiums over the MEV-Boost ‘Spot’ market.
• More Competition: Currently, the Spot Market is run by a few block builders (e.g. Beaver, Titan, Flashbots/BuilderNet, RSync…). By creating a more accessible market, we introduce more competitive forces to drive up the value of every block.
• Composable Product Suite: The Product Suite is designed to be composable/decomposable where a block can be split into its constituent parts enabling the marketplace to maximally price-discriminate and maximize utility.
• Multi-Block Markets: From the research on Multi-block MEV (MMEV), we expect these to boost yields significantly depending on the frequency of opportunities. Based on industry discussions, we expect yields to increase consistent with the % of the Network on board with ETHGas. That is, when 10% of the Validators on board, we would expect a 10bps premium over MEV-Boost; with 20% of the Validators, a 20bps premium, and so forth as we rise to 40%, 50% and beyond.
• Secondary Markets: The above markets assume that products are static in nature but over time however, we expect there to be more trading within the secondary markets. As ETHGas pays the majority of its overall fee revenue back to validators, Validators benefit from any volatility or trading activity opening up a completely new revenue line for them.
• More Products: Finally, we’re just getting started. As we extend the Futures markets and create more products, these innovations will invariably continue to enhance yields for Validators.

Ready to Lead the Future of Validators?

Your staked ETH is underperforming. The era of passive, unpredictable yield is over.

By integrating with ETHGas, you’re not just earning more—you are building the backbone of a Realtime Ethereum. You provide the guaranteed, priority blockspace that allows for better oracle updates, safer liquidations, and more robust applications for all users.

Integrate the ETHGas Commit Boost module and transform your validator into a premium blockspace provider. Start earning the yield you deserve.

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