Gnosis Chain is giving up being its own L1. The pitch: a swap that leaves a rollup, fills on mainnet and comes back in one transaction.
At Devcon in Mumbai today, the Ethereum Economic Zone (a Gnosis and ZisK-led effort co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation) launched Rollup X, a public devnet. CoW Swap filled an order signed on Rollup X against mainnet liquidity, and the tokens landed back on the rollup in the same transaction.
In spring 2027, Gnosis Chain hard-forks into a zone settling to Ethereum, keeping contracts, balances, addresses, chain ID and xDAI as gas. Gnosis says it would enter as a top 10 Ethereum L2 by DeFi TVL.
For now, Rollup X "is not yet meant to hold significant value," and the core protocol is still under audit. Fixing fragmentation by moving everyone back in. Gnosis volunteered to carry the couch first.
Source: Gnosis blog