Co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation, the EEZ promises synchronous composability between Ethereum mainnet and Layer 2 networks, aiming to address ecosystem fragmentation.
Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst and Zisk founder Jordi Baylina announced the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a new Layer 1-to-Layer 2 framework designed to let rollups compose synchronously with Ethereum mainnet and with each other — eliminating the need for bridges and fragmented infrastructure.
The project, announced at EthCC in Cannes, is being co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation.
How It Works
Smart contracts deployed on an EEZ rollup can call contracts on mainnet or other EEZ rollups within a single transaction, with the same execution guarantees as deploying directly on the base layer. The framework uses real-time zero-knowledge proving — built on Baylina’s Zisk proving stack — to enable multiple rollups to execute as though they were a single chain.
The EEZ defaults to ETH as the gas token and introduces no new token.
“Ethereum doesn’t have a scaling problem. It has a fragmentation problem,” Ernst said at the event. “The EEZ is designed to do the opposite. One Ethereum, not a hundred islands.”
EEZ Alliance
The announcement also introduced the EEZ Alliance, an informal collective of ecosystem participants committed to unifying the EVM landscape. Founding members include Aave, Flashbots, Nethermind, Centrifuge, Safe, CoW Swap, Titan, Beaver Build, Monerium, and xStocks.
The EEZ will be governed as credibly neutral infrastructure under a Swiss non-profit, with all software released as free and open-source. Technical specifications and performance benchmarks are expected in the coming weeks.
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