Overview
- Gnosis and Zisk unveiled the Ethereum Economic Zone on Sunday at EthCC in Cannes, with the Ethereum Foundation co-funding the effort.
- The framework proposes atomic calls between rollups and Ethereum mainnet without bridges, and it keeps ETH as the default fee token.
- Zisk says a real-time ZK virtual machine that proves Ethereum blocks enables single-transaction interactions, with technical specs and benchmarks due in the coming weeks.
- An EEZ Alliance will coordinate standards and adoption, early members include Aave, Titan, Beaver Build, Centrifuge, and xStocks, and the initiative will be organized as a Swiss non-profit with open-source software.
- More than 20 live Layer 2s hold roughly $40 billion in assets as isolated silos, so backers say unifying liquidity and tooling could reduce risky transfers and give users simpler, faster flows.