Safe Community Update – November 2023

Highlights

• Safe{Wallet} with Google and Gnosis Chain: free Safe Accounts on Gnosis Chain using Google accounts are here.

• Safe Grants Program - Wave 1 Grantees: Grant recipients in various strategic categories have been announced.

• AI Agent Economy on Gnosis Chain: Over half of the transactions on Gnosis Chain are now made by AI agents, marking the emergence of a significant agent economy.

Safe{Wallet}

Safe{Wallet} with Google and Gnosis Chain is here!

We launched a new feature allowing free account creation on Gnosis Chain using a Google account, offering ease of use and self-custody without the need for seed phrases. Enjoy free account creation and 5 free transactions every hour on Gnosis Chain and stay tuned for new network support in the future. Read the full release here.

Ecosystem, Events, and Community

Safe Grants Program - Wave 1 Grantees Announced

Grants were awarded across four strategic categories including:

• Build

  • AbstractionKit – Reference SDK for ERC-4337 with new Safe{Core} Protocol

  • Account Recovery with a regulated Swiss Bank

  • Cannon

  • dSAFE registry

  • Eternal Safe – Decentralized Safe{Wallet}

  • Extensible Fallbank Handler + Signature Verifier Muxer

  • Fluidkey – Privacy Made Simple

  • Liveness Module

  • Safe Explorer

  • ZenGuarden

• Growth

  • Acme

  • Brahma Console - DeFi Pro Asset Management

  • Lore: Empowering Communities Through Co-Ownership

  • Nest Wallet – A Browser Extension for your Safe

  • StationX

• Research

  • Challenges and Opportunities of Distributed Cryptography for Safe

  • How to responsibly incentivize multisig signers?

  • Safe Anonymization Module

  • SafeRecover: zk-powered recovery mechanisms

• Govern

  • StableLab: Enhancing Governance Participation in SafeDAO

  • Safe Governance Analytics Dashboard

• In other events news, check out the ****October Hackathon winners from ETH Online and DAATA and AI Hackathon. We also participated in the Decentralized Scaling Summit alongside Devconnect.

Governance and Safe{DAO}

• [SEP #8] Outcomes-based resource allocation framework (OBRA) live for voting on Snapshot

• [SEP #7] Governance framework was accepted with the highest voting participation and fastest proposal to reach its quorum

• [SEP #5] Redistribution of unredeemed token completed with a redemption rate of 58.05% and wallet participation rate of 59.08%

• New governance season 1 - sprint 1 started October 30, 2023

Other updates from around the Safe Ecosystem

• Punk6529 completed the $6M purchase of Dmitri Cherniak’s ‘The Goose’ NFT by securely storing it a Safe account.

https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1723068514452349314

• AI Agent Economy on Gnosis Chain: More than half of the transactions on Gnosis Chain made by AI agents, indicating a growing agent economy. Read our perspective on the evolution of the Agent Economy.

• Messari published its Safe Q3 2023 Brief. The tl;dr is that smart account adoption is here.

https://twitter.com/tech_metrics/status/1722563959385956376

• Safe is still building strong through the bear! Help us fill our multiple open positions.

+ Subscribe on Mirror