Gnosis e Zisk anunciam o lançamento do quadro Rollup "Zona Económica do Ethereum", com cofinanciamento da Fundação Ethereum

Gold Finance reported that on March 29, a group of Ethereum projects announced a new initiative aimed at addressing an increasingly serious issue with Ethereum: its ecosystem is becoming overly fragmented. At the EthCC conference held in Cannes, France, the project named “Ethereum Economic Zone” (EEZ) was officially unveiled, with the goal of enabling more seamless collaboration between Ethereum’s numerous scaling networks (i.e., Layer 2, or L2).

The framework was co-developed by Gnosis, Zisk, and the Ethereum Foundation. Among them, Gnosis is a development team that has long focused on Ethereum infrastructure, while Zisk specializes in zero-knowledge proof technology.

For years, Ethereum has relied on L2 networks for scaling, but these networks often operate like “islands” in isolation. Users need to transfer assets between different networks via cross-chain bridges, a process that is often slow, costly, and risky; meanwhile, developers also frequently need to rebuild the same tools on each network.

The goal of EEZ is precisely to change this situation, allowing these networks to function overall as a unified system. Simply put, it will enable applications and transactions on different Ethereum networks to interact instantly—without the need for cross-chain bridges—while still relying on Ethereum’s core security.

This release comes at a time when the market’s discussion about Ethereum’s long-term reliance on L2 scaling paths is heating up again. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently stated that as fragmentation and user experience issues persist, the ecosystem may need to re-evaluate its L2-centric roadmap. EEZ appears to be a direct response to such concerns, attempting to integrate the entire network ecosystem by unifying liquidity, infrastructure, and user flows, rather than continuing to add more fragmented chains.