EEZ plan to fix L2 fragmentation
Ethereum devs proposed an Economic Zone (EEZ) framework to reduce L2 fragmentation by enabling shared liquidity and better composability across rollups — a structural attempt to restore lost network effects. If adopted, EEZ could unblock TVL and UX friction that’s kept value siloed on individual L2s. (thecoinrepublic.com)
Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst and Zisk founder Jordi Baylina unveiled the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) at EthCC in Cannes on March 29, 2026. (theblock.co) The Ethereum Foundation is listed as a co-funder of the initiative, and organizers say the project will be governed as a Swiss non-profit with all software released free and open-source. (theblock.co) The Block names Aave, block builders Titan and Beaver Build, real‑world asset platform Centrifuge, and tokenized equities project xStocks as founding members of the EEZ Alliance. (theblock.co) Multiple outlets list a broader contributor set that also includes Flashbots, Nethermind, Safe, CoW Swap and Monerium as early participants in the EEZ coordination effort. (tekedia.com) Zisk’s public materials and coverage describe a ZisK real‑time zkVM/proving stack led by Jordi Baylina — creator of Circom and an early zkEVM contributor — which EEZ proponents say can verify Ethereum blocks quickly to enable synchronized cross‑environment execution. (zisk.technology) (unchainedcrypto.com) L2 analytics from L2BEAT show Arbitrum at roughly $15.6 billion and Base at roughly $10.9 billion in total value secured, illustrating the multibillion-dollar concentration any EEZ coordination would need to interoperate with. (l2beat.com) Organizers say technical specifications, performance benchmarks and EEZ Alliance governance details will be published in the coming weeks, and the framework defaults to using ETH as the gas token to avoid additional bridging primitives. (eez.io/blog/introducing-the-eez)
