Gnosis Chain
Gnosis Chain is a community-owned EVM L1, live since 2018 and secured by over 200,000 validators around the world. Resilience and credible neutrality are its core values, and anyone can take part in governance through the GnosisDAO.
Gnosis Chain will become Gnosis EEZ, the first instance of the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a neutral rollup framework that settles to Ethereum. Gnosis operates the instance. Everything you build on Gnosis Chain today carries over: contracts, addresses and state are hard-forked across, so nothing is redeployed.
At a glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Block time | 5 seconds |
| Fee token | xDai, a stablecoin |
| Consensus token | GNO, staked by validators |
| Chain ID | 100 (mainnet), 10200 (Chiado testnet) |
| Execution | EVM, Osaka patchset |
Fees are paid in a stablecoin. Most EVM chains charge gas in a volatile native token. On Gnosis Chain every transaction is paid in xDai, so costs are predictable for you and your users. Fees go to the validator who sealed the block.
Building is the same as on Ethereum. The same tooling, wallets and contracts work unchanged. Point them at the network RPC and deploy.
Find your way around
- Networks: RPC endpoints, explorers and faucets for mainnet and Chiado.
- Tokens: the dual-token model of xDai for fees and GNO for consensus.
- Chain specifications: consensus, hard forks, deposit contracts and audits.
- Developer guides: build, deploy, interact with and verify contracts.
- Bridges: move assets between Ethereum and Gnosis Chain.
- Tools: oracles, indexers, wallets and other infrastructure.
- Knowledge hub: deeper technical guides.
- Validators and node operators: what the move to Gnosis EEZ means if you run a validator or a node.