🔍 The Ethereum 3.0 vision

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Apr 02, 2026

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🔎 What is the Ethereum Economic Zone

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🔎What is the Ethereum Economic Zone?

It’s no secret that Ethereum’s Layer 2 scaling strategy has been a success.

7 out of the top 20 chains by TVL are Ethereum L2s, according to DeFiLlama. And their transaction fees are effectively negligible.

That said, L2s face a major problem:

Constantly moving assets between L2s to access certain dApps, ensuring you have ETH for gas across multiple networks, and liquidity fragmentation all contribute to a poor user experience.

Fortunately, a new proposal aims to fix these issues for good.

A few days ago, some Ethereum ecosystem builders proposed the Ethereum Economic Zone, which some people refer to as the “Ethereum 3.0 vision”.

What is the Ethereum Economic Zone?

In short, it is an ambitious attempt to unify Ethereum L2s.

Ethereum Economic Zone is an L1<>L2 framework.

Technically, L2s that adopt it will become synchronously composable with the L1. This will allow a smart contract on an L2 to call a smart contract on another L2 or on the Ethereum mainnet and receive a response within a single transaction.

In practice, this would make using multiple L2s feel like using a single blockchain.

To give you an example, let’s say you have USDC on Arbitrum and want to provide it as liquidity to a liquidity pool on Aerodrome, the main DEX built on Base.

Today, you'd need to manually bridge your USDC from Ethereum to Base first.

With the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), you could deposit directly into Aerodrome in a single transaction. With no manual bridging required.

Who is building this?

Surprisingly, this initiative is not coming from the Ethereum Foundation.

The Ethereum Economic Zone framework has been proposed by Gnosis, an OG team building on Ethereum since 2015.

Gnosis built the constant product AMM model, CoW protocol, Safe, Gnosis Chain, and several other highly successful products and infrastructure projects.

While the Ethereum Foundation isn’t directly involved in building the Ethereum Economic Zone, it is funding the team behind it, which gives credibility to the project and makes me think it actually has a good shot at succeeding.

What to expect next?

Over the next few weeks, the EEF team will publish a clear roadmap for existing Ethereum apps to leverage the Ethereum Economic Zone framework (EEZ).

Based on what's been shared, it looks like it will be an opt-in solution for DeFi protocols that want to expand to multiple L2s without fragmenting liquidity, rather than something that automatically applies to all Ethereum-based protocols.

It is unclear, though, when exactly this framework will fully go live.

But overall, I have to say I am very excited about this.

For years, the Ethereum community has been rightfully complaining that the current fragmented experience offered by Ethereum L2s is far from ideal.

Ethereum Economic Zone might finally unify L2s and abstract away bridging.

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