A clear, step-by-step guide to transition an Ethereum L2 to a EVM L1, with native & free interop with ETH mainnet: 1. Spin up a single node L1 with EVM and 200ms block times (github.com/cosmos/evm) 2. Pause L2 sequencer 3. Extract all smart contract bytes from L2 4. Set up a genesis for L1 with smart contract bytes 5. Replay any individual transactions as needed if can't be captured in genesis (rare) 6. Move wallet RPC endpoints to L1 RPC 7. Shut down L2. 8. Set IBC connection (comes pre-loaded) to point at Ethereum 8. OPTIONAL: set your token to be native gas token for your L1 9. OPTIONAL: enable staking of native token for security. Otherwise, just keep running nodes yourself if you had a centralized sequencer. Whole process takes few days. No visible changes for your users. Now you have a fully EVM-compatible L1 with native interop with Ethereum, and your token is a gas token. DM with questions, we'll do it for you.