Gnosis Chain will transition to Ethereum L2 in the spring of 2027.

Gnosis Chain will cease operating as an independent L1 server via a hard fork in Spring 2027, transitioning to Ethereum L2. After the transition, contracts, balances, addresses, chain IDs, and xDAI as the gas token will remain unchanged, and developers will not need to redeploy. Following its transformation, Gnosis Chain will become the first general-purpose zone in the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) and will rank among the top ten Ethereum L2 blockchains. The validator set of approximately 200,000 independent validators will no longer be retained after the transformation. Gnosis DAO currently spends between $7 million and $10 million annually to operate Gnosis Chain.