ETHGas lets institutions reserve Ethereum blockspace with built-in compliance screening

Ethereum has always run on a first-come, highest-bidder basis. You submit a transaction, attach a fee, and hope it lands in the next block. For a retail trader, that uncertainty is an annoyance. For a regulated bank, it is a dealbreaker. ETHGas wants to change that. The company lets institutions reserve Ethereum blockspace ahead of time and screen transactions against their own compliance rules before those transactions ever reach the chain. How reserved blockspace works The technical version runs through two products: the Blockspace and Preconf Marketplace, and a dedicated Institutional Blockspace offering. Together, they promise guaranteed transaction inclusion through two mechanisms. The first is whole-block commitments. An institution can effectively lock in an entire block for its own activity. The second is inclusion preconfirmations, which are promises that a specific transaction will make it into a block. Speed is part of the pitch. ETHGas slices Ethereum’s 12-second blocks into smaller sub-blocks. That lets transactions receive validator-signed preconfirmations in about 50ms. The compliance layer Speed alone would not move a compliance department. The more interesting piec...