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Yesterdays post about the [progress of the EEZ](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1v369ao/daily_general_discussion_july_22_2026/oz1vbyy/) and Gnosis chain, an L1, becoming part of it, gave quite a lot of grounds for discussions. A few hours after the discussion started, a Gnosis Improvement Proposal by Friederike Ernst on the Gnosis forum added a lot more details on how gnosis chain could become part of the EEZ. In simple terms, the plan is to turn gnosis chain into a rollup which then becomes part of the EEZ. They argue that gnosis chains goal of having a decentralized validator set failed, which in my view was made clear to everyone last autumn when they hardforked the chain without any of the 'independent' validators having a say in it. At the same time, Gnosis DAO pays the validator set for their security without any expectation of reaching the scale to ever be able to cover this security with fee revenue. The conclusion is that becoming a rollup and joining the EEZ is the best way to go forward. The plan is to do that in Dezember/January. For users, nothing will change, the state, which means all your tokens and the transaction history will remain, just who is able to produce blocks will change. This also means that the existing validators will not be needed anymore and the current bridge validators, run by Gnosis themselves, will be repurposed to prove the chain and run the composer on the gnosis rollup. They also will rename gnosis chain to Gnosis EEZ to make it clear it is not an independent blockchain anymore.
Even though the forum post is long, there aren't too many technical details on how the chain will work. They say they will likely use trusted execution environments (TEEs) to prove the chain and not zk proofs, at least at the beginning. They plan to move to zk proofs later on when the EEZ specs are ready. They will use a centralized sequencer and there is no decision made whether they want to decentralize the sequencer set, but it is definitely not a priority. They also do not plan to have a forced transaction inclusion from Ethereum to Gnosis EEZ. They plan to focus on the basics first.
I am honestly surprised about this forum post even though I argued yesterday that it does not make too much sense to be remain an L1 and become part of the EEZ. Being a rollup or more general an L2 makes more sense. I honestly expected this to play out on a much longer time horizon because Gnosis evaluated and dismissed becoming a rollup pretty clearly 2 years ago. Looks like the EEZ and maybe them having to hard fork their chain last autumn changed a lot in their thinking about security and how much they pay for it. Overall it is great to see. Gnosis and Gnosis chain have contributed quite a bit to the Ethereum ecosystem and I prefer them being closer to Ethereum than remaining an L1. I really hope this Gnosis improvement proposal goes through.
Gnosis forum post: https://forum.gnosis.io/t/gip-153-should-gnosis-chain-transition-into-the-ethereum-economic-zone/12397

One of the DAO's founders is married to Serena Williams. I am still stuck with their rugpull APECOIN or $APE but if I have that mentality that if I don't sell I don't lose.
They were "Hacked" pfft what a load of bs it was a total insider job.