Gnosis Chain Transitions to Ethereum Economic Zone ZK Rollup

Gnosis Chain is seeking community consensus to transition from an independent Layer 1 to an Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) ZK Rollup. The proposal, authored by Friederike Ernst and others, points out that Gnosis Chain's positioning as an independent L1 has failed due to overlapping value propositions with Ethereum, a lack of scale advantages and liquidity, and insufficient fee revenue to cover security costs, leading to a long-term reliance on DAO treasury subsidies, with non-stakers being diluted by approximately 2.3% annually.

After the transition, Gnosis Chain will generate blocks at a speed of 2 seconds, with each Ethereum block providing state proofs and settling to Ethereum L1, achieving synchronous composability with the Ethereum mainnet. Users will be able to cross-chain call Ethereum contracts in a single transaction, maintaining continuity of user addresses, balances, and contract states, while xDAI will continue to serve as the Gas token.

Approximately 350,000 GNO currently staked (about 27% of the circulating supply) will be unlocked, and a large independent validator set will exit, with ordering rights centralized under Gnosis Ltd. The original cross-chain validators will transition to Prover nodes. The staking incentives for GNO will be replaced by fees generated from network activity, with a specific token economic model to be proposed in a subsequent GIP.

According to the roadmap, GIP voting is expected to take place from August to September, with the genesis block targeted for January 2027, at which point Gnosis Chain validators will officially exit, and the complete EEZ specifications, including bidirectional synchronous composability, are expected to be implemented throughout 2027. This proposal does not involve any additional funding requests and only seeks directional consensus.

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