Next Spring @GnosisChain will relaunch as an Ethereum Economic Zone. It will be the first of a new kind of rollup. Still with app-chain cost, speed, and scalability, but also synchronously composing with @ethereum. We're calling on protocols and applications to see what that unlocks for you. Check out the demos that @etheconomiczone just shared (in QT). For us, it's been a journey. And now we're coming home. It's time to make it EEZ.

Gnosis is in Mumbai for @EFDevcon and it's set to be a busy week. Expect updates from @GnosisChain and @GnosisVPN, and big news from @etheconomiczone. Dropping tomorrow. Here's where to find us during the week. ↓

The teams building Ethereum's open infrastructure will be in the room at Devcon 8, and they want to meet you. @Kleros_io, @gnosis_ , @base, @ensdomains and more Devcon 8 Supporters are coming to Mumbai. Bring your questions and your ideas!

With $2 billion lost to threat actors so far this year, defences need to evolve as fast as the attackers. Safenet is an important step forward, and Gnosis is proud to be one of the validators. Now live on @GnosisChain.

Inside Out: Fintech x Crypto Wednesday 21 October, 18:00, at Fintech House Lisbon. Two communities in the same city that almost never end up in the same room. One evening, one conversation: people from inside the established financial system and people building outside of it. An Lisbon Ethereum Hub initiative, with @lagoon_finance. Register:

FCR is live on Gnosis Chain bridges. Ethereum deposits to Gnosis Chain now confirm in about one slot, bringing Gnosis Chain closer to Ethereum ahead of its @etheconomiczone transition. Shout-out to @ethlabs_org, the FCR team and the consensus client teams for making FCR possible on Ethereum!

This week's conversation around the world computer and all, reminded us of one story. Before 1840, a letter in Britain was priced by distance and paid for by whoever received it. Keeping in touch was expensive. At least for most, as some privileged ones, like Members of Parliament, sent letters for free. Then came the Penny Post. One penny for a letter sent anywhere in the country. The same price for everyone, as the free privilege was abolished, even for the Queen. Within a year - BOOM! - letters went from 76 million to 169 million. In 1860 George Elgar Hicks painted the rush for the six o'clock post. Rich and poor, young and old, each with a letter of their own. Six in the evening was the daily deadline for the regular inland mail. One set of rules for everyone. Anyone's transaction gets through. Circles also gives everyone the same rate. One CRC an hour. The post made everyone a sender. Circles makes everyone an issuer.

What would it take for a bank to use a tokenised deposit as collateral on Ethereum without first moving it across a bridge? That was the question behind "One Transaction, No Bridges" on the CV Summit Catalyst Stage by @CV_Labs in Zurich, with @tw_tter and @jbaylina. The session was moderated by Anthony Day, a blockchain executive who has worked at IBM, Deloitte and Parity, and hosts the Blockchain Won't Save the World podcast.

Looking for some OG stories to fill up your schedule over the weekend? Look no more, as @griffgreen sat down with @tw_tter on @epicenterbtc, and the episode is pure gold. Some highlights from our perspective: -> @GnosisChain shipping what might've been the first soft fork ever run in production after the Balancer hack. -> 2016, when "Gnosis didn't even make multisigs," and Griff and Jordi @jbaylina, now co-architecting the @etheconomiczone, pulled $210 million out of the Parity hack. -> on @aboutcircles as "a UBI solution that will be there when we need it." Well worth your hour 🎧

GIP-154 has passed. Gnosis Ltd is funded with $15m in stablecoins for 12 months from 1 September, disbursed quarterly. The $2m working-capital loan for @GnosisPay was part of the same proposal and is repayable to the DAO. The vote: 104,172 for, 1.4 against, none abstaining, from 44 voters. Turnout was 104,173 against a quorum of 75,000.