Building a Private, Gasless Network in Public: A 2025 Transparency Update
When people hear ‘gasless Layer 2’, their reaction is usually one of two extremes: some see it as a long-overdue improvement to user experience. Others assume it cannot work without sacrificing security, reliability, or decentralisation.
In 2025, Status Network did not focus on convincing people that gasless execution was possible; we proved it by building a scalable protocol in public.
The goal was to realise a technically ambitious idea: build a Layer 2 that requires no gas fees for executi