TL;DR
Brevis is partnering with ETHGas to explore how zero-knowledge verification can enhance gas abstraction infrastructure. Both teams share a focus on removing friction from Ethereum, and the overlap opens interesting possibilities.
What ETHGas Is Building
ETHGas is building infrastructure to make gas invisible to users. Their Open Gas Initiative lets protocols sponsor transaction costs, turning gas fees into rebates that users claim later. You transact normally on supported apps, and the protocol covers your gas in the background.
The model works because it shifts gas management from users to protocols. Protocols can afford to absorb gas costs when it drives user acquisition and retention. Users get a smoother experience without thinking about fee volatility or transaction timing.
A Shared Focus on Friction
ETHGas’s approach resonates with how we think about user experience at Brevis.
When a DEX uses our infrastructure to offer personalized trading fees, users don’t see the ZK proofs running in the background. They just get better rates based on their history. When Linea distributed a billion tokens through their Ignition program, recipients didn’t interact with our ZK Data Coprocessor directly. They claimed rewards that happened to be calculated and verified trustlessly.
The pattern is the same, with complex infrastructure that disappears from the user’s perspective. What remains is a better experience with fewer barriers.
This is also how we approached the Uniswap Foundation’s routing rebate program. The grant funded development of trustless gas rebates for V4 routers, using ZK proofs to verify eligibility and calculate distributions. Routers integrating hooked pools receive rebates without anyone needing to trust centralized calculations. The verification happens cryptographically, and users benefit from better routing without knowing the mechanics.
Gas abstraction is one expression of this principle. Verifiable computation is another. Both aim to make Ethereum feel less like infrastructure and more like something people simply use.
Synergy and Opportunities
The same ZK verification infrastructure that powers trustless reward distribution could extend to gas abstraction. Proving eligibility, verifying calculations, ensuring transparent distribution. These are areas where our work naturally overlaps with what ETHGas enables.
The same applies to Sybil resistance. Gas abstraction programs need to distinguish genuine users from coordinated farming operations. ZK-verified identity attestations can prove user authenticity based on on-chain history without exposing wallet connections or private data.
Cross-protocol activity verification is another area. If rebate eligibility depends on behavior across multiple applications, ZK proofs can aggregate that activity trustlessly rather than relying on centralized tracking.
A Stronger Ethereum
Brevis and ETHGas share a commitment to improving how users experience Ethereum. This partnership opens the door to exploring where verifiable computation and gas abstraction intersect, with the shared goal of making on-chain interaction simpler and more accessible.
About ETHGas
ETHGas is settlement infrastructure making Ethereum’s blockspace tradeable, enabling users of Ethereum and distributed compute applications to trade, acquire, sell-forward and hedge any quantum of computation and storage on the blockchain.
ETHGas addresses Ethereum’s processing constraints and gas price volatility, through transaction futures (“pre-confirmations”) across a range of maturities and precise order execution. ETHGas enables Ethereum’s wholesale participants to reduce risks within the transaction pipeline, enhance staking yields, while reducing gas price volatility for enterprises and eliminating gas fees for consumers.
Website: https://www.ethgas.com/
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