Gnosis Chain has approved a strategic shift away from operating as a standalone Layer 1 and toward becoming an Ethereum-settled rollup under the Ethereum Economic Zone framework. The proposal, announced by Gnosis Chain and published on the GnosisDAO governance forum, would retire the network’s independent validator set and replace its settlement security model with Ethereum validators. If implemented, roughly 350,000 GNO would be unlocked as the validator set winds down, and the treasury-funded staking subsidy would come to an end. For users, the transition is designed to be minimally disruptive. xDAI would remain the gas token, while wallet addresses, balances, and contract state would continue without a migration to a new chain. The technical draw is synchronous composability with Ethereum, though the first version would only support atomic calls from Gnosis to Ethereum. Calls in the other direction, as well as broader cross-instance composability, are planned for later stages. The proposal does not finalize the technical architecture or request new funding. It does, however, state that Gnosis Ltd will initially operate a centralized composer responsible for transaction ordering, block building, and submission for proving and settlement. The first Ethereum Economic Zone block is targeted for December 2026 or January 2027, with bidirectional composability and real-time proving expected in 2027.

Gnosis Chain is seeking directional consensus from its community on a proposal to move away from its current standalone Layer 1 model and become an Ethereum Economic Zone, or EEZ, ZK Rollup under GnosisDAO’s GIP-153. The proposal, co-authored by Friederike Ernst and others, argues that Gnosis Chain’s positioning as an independent L1 has failed because its “credible neutrality” pitch overlaps heavily with Ethereum while lacking Ethereum’s scale and liquidity. It also says fee revenue has been far too low to cover security costs, leaving those expenses dependent on DAO treasury subsidies and causing about 2.3% annual dilution for non-stakers. Under the proposed design, the network would produce blocks every two seconds, submit a state proof and settle to Ethereum L1 on every Ethereum block, and keep user addresses, balances, and contract state continuous. xDAI would remain the gas token. The plan would also unlock about 350,000 staked GNO, or roughly 27% of circulating supply, remove the current independent validator set, hand sequencing to Gnosis Ltd, and turn existing bridge validators into prover nodes. A GIP vote is expected in August to September, with a genesis block targeted for January 2027.

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