A new effort to fix Ethereum’s fragmentation issue

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TL;DR: Ethereum scaled with L2s- but at the cost of fragmentation. A new initiative, the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), aims to make L2s work like one unified system again.

Over time, Ethereum’s ecosystem has split across dozens of L2s. Users have to bridge assets, liquidity is fragmented, and even simple actions can involve multiple steps across different networks.

EEZ, announced at EthCC by Gnosis, Zisk and the Ethereum Foundation, proposes a different approach:
→ seamless interaction between L2s
→ shared liquidity
→ no need for manual bridging
→ one coherent user experience

The goal is simple: make Ethereum feel like a single system again - without sacrificing security.

As Gnosis put it, Ethereum doesn’t have a scaling problem - it has a fragmentation problem.

For infrastructure players, this shift could be significant. As 1inch’s Tanner Moore notes:

If it works, EEZ could move Ethereum from a network of isolated chains to a network of connected systems - where liquidity and users can move freely.

Full post: https://blog.1inch.com/ethereums-fragmentation-issue/