Gnosis Chain Ends Independent L1 Operations in Spring 2027, Joins EEZ as First General-purpose Zone

Gnosis Chain will end its independent L1 operations in Spring 2027 and join the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), becoming the first general-purpose Zone for settlement to Ethereum. Gnosis Chain will migrate its on-chain state through a hard fork, with contracts, balances, addresses, chain ID, and the Gas token xDAI remaining unchanged, so developers will not need to redeploy. Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst stated that due to the inability to achieve fast block times, composability with Ethereum, and decentralized ordering, Gnosis chose the first two options, and the existing approximately 200,000 independent validators will no longer be retained. The cost of operating Gnosis Chain by Gnosis DAO is estimated to be between $7 million and $10 million per year. The Devnet Rollup X of EEZ has launched its testnet today at Devcon in Mumbai, completing several demonstrations, including CoW Swap utilizing liquidity from the Ethereum mainnet for exchanges, Safe achieving atomic ownership changes between L1 and L2, and Rollup X completing Falcon post-quantum signature verification, with mainnet Gas consumption reduced from about 5.5 million to approximately 495,000, a decrease of about 91%. Rollup X remains a test network, and the core protocol is undergoing independent security audits. EEZ is co-funded by a Swiss non-profit organization supported by the Ethereum Foundation.

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