Ethereum Foundation Backs 'Economic Zone' to Solve Fragmentation Issues
Gnosis and Zisk introduced the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a framework designed to unify Ethereum’s fragmented layer-2 ecosystem by enabling shared infrastructure across layer-2 networks and the Ethereum mainnet. This approach aims to reduce repetitive development, improve user experience, and eliminate technical silos, with transactions executed across multiple networks in a unified environment. Within the EEZ, users will pay for transactions with ETH, and the use of project-specific tokens for transaction costs will be discouraged. The initiative is co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation and is supported by projects like Aave and XStocks. The EEZ will integrate zero-knowledge proofs for security and scalability. Centralized sequencers in many layer-2s have raised concerns about gatekeeping and fee capture, but the EEZ seeks to address these issues by promoting shared, decentralized infrastructure. Technical specifications will be released soon, and the scope of funding has yet to be disclosed.
