Gnosis Chain Proposal to Become Ethereum L2 Passes

The vote matters less for Gnosis itself than for what it signals about the gravitational pull of Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap: an established, independent chain choosing to re-anchor its security and interoperability rather than compete as a standalone L1. The affected parties are Gnosis validators, bridge and DeFi integrators, and the projects that picked the chain for its own consensus and fee model, all of whom now face a migration whose details are not yet specified here. Whether the transition preserves existing decentralization guarantees and how the broader set of independent chains weighs the same trade-off is the open question.