Gnosis (GNO)

Gnosis may not have a huge voice in the crypto space, but it is a veteran player and has delivered many concrete projects (such as the CoW protocol, Safe wallet, prediction market framework, etc.).

Gnosis mentions that it wants to help Ethereum build a new L2 framework called the Ethereum Economic Zone, EEZ (Ethereum Economic Zone).

Seeing this proposal is worth mentioning.

In the past two years, we have constantly complained that one of the biggest obstacles to Ethereum's progress is the fragmentation of L2s, which cannot cooperate with L1.

The original idea for L2s on Ethereum was “scaling”, but it ended up creating dozens of isolated islands.

Developers are also frustrated: for a project, they have to redeploy on multiple L2s, reconnect bridges, find liquidity again, rebuild wallets… essentially copying the same product many times.

Users are even more frustrated; funds have to go through cross‑chain bridges (slow and expensive), assets are scattered across many chains, hard to keep track of, feeling like transferring between many different countries.

In other words,

When people said “Ethereum scaling succeeded”, they only solved “cheap + fast”, but did not solve the fundamental problem of “everyone being able to play together seamlessly”.

The core of the EEZ framework is to solve this problem.

The goal is to make all L2s inside EEZ and the Ethereum mainnet interact in real‑time as if they were a single chain.

Technically this is called “synchronous composability”.

In short, contracts can call each other directly within a single transaction:

No bridges, no waiting, no wrapped assets; you can use mainnet liquidity directly (e.g., a Uniswap pool on mainnet is instantly usable on L2);

Most importantly, security is inherited directly from Ethereum mainnet validators (no need to build your own consensus).

Thus,

Developers can deploy once and the whole Ethereum L1/L2 ecosystem can be used.

Users feel as if they are back on “one chain”.

From a technical perspective, EEZ is not a specific chain but a new Rollup framework (similar to a standard template) that allows multiple L2s to synchronize and compose with Ethereum L1 and with each other in real‑time.

Currently, ordinary L2 cross‑chain communication is “asynchronous”: you send a transaction, wait for bridge confirmation and finality, which can take minutes to hours and may even fail.

EEZ aims to make it “done in a single transaction”:

A contract on L2 calls a mainnet contract (or another EEZ L2 contract) directly, receives the return value immediately, continues execution, all atomically (either all succeed or all fail), with security and execution guarantees identical to on‑chain execution.

Based on the disclosed information, the technology relies mainly on real‑time zero‑knowledge proving, provided by Zisk (a project by Jordi Baylina, a zk pioneer and core contributor to Circom and Polygon zkEVM).

In short,

• The state of multiple Rollups plus the mainnet is coordinated in real‑time via a cross‑Rollup state‑sync mechanism (e.g., a unified state root).

• During transaction execution, several chains are treated “temporarily as one big chain”: when a contract calls across environments, the ZK proof quickly verifies everything.

• No extra bridge, no asset wrapping; use native ETH on the mainnet as the gas token, and share liquidity (e.g., mainnet Uniswap pools are directly usable on L2).

• Security inherits the full set of Ethereum validators (no own consensus).

It is not a traditional “Based Rollup” (where the L2 sequencer fully depends on the L1 sequencer/commitment, emphasizing decentralization and censorship resistance).

EEZ places more emphasis on synchronous composability rather than a pure sequencer model.

It will settle EEZ Rollups on L1, inheriting L1 security and real‑time interaction, possibly borrowing or being compatible with L1‑based mechanisms (such as force‑inclusion on L1).

The detailed technical whitepaper and specifications have not been released yet (they say they will publish performance tests, architecture details, developer tools in the coming weeks); currently only an abstract framework description is available.

One‑sentence summary of the principle:

Using real‑time ZK proofs + a cross‑Rollup state‑sync protocol, multiple Rollups and the mainnet are “glued” into an atomic execution environment that works like a super‑large chain, while each remains an independent Rollup.

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