Bankless Will The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) Rebuild $ETH Dominance? | Gnosis Martin Koppelman & Friederike Ernst
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Apr 9, 2026 
Friederike Ernst, researcher/dev at Gnosis focused on protocol design and interoperability, and Martin Koppelmann, Gnosis co-founder and Ethereum scaling engineer, discuss the Ethereum Economic Zone and real-time proving. They explain how real-time ZK proving could reconnect fragmented rollups, synchronize settlement every block, unify liquidity across chains, and enable new coordination and adoption paths for niche and private networks.
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EEZ Is A Minimal Open Standard
- EEZ is deliberately a thin, open standard — targeted to be under ~1,000 lines of public code — not a new monolithic stack.
- Friederike says it's free open-source software published by a Swiss association and belongs to no single party.
Block Builder Coordination Improves EEZ Efficiency
- Efficient EEZ operation benefits from block-builder and sequencer coordination beyond naive bundle submission.
- Martin notes initial support via bundles works, but aggregating proofs and coordinated blocks improves performance across multiple chains.
EEZ Re-Aligns L2s With L1 Economic Incentives
- EEZ aligns L2 incentives with Ethereum by pulling more economic activity onto L1, increasing fee and MEV demand.
- Friederike and Martin explain block builders benefit because users will choose transactions that optionally access L1 liquidity.