Safe spustil Safenet Aegis na sítích Ethereum, Gnosis Chain a Arbitrum; volitelný Guard dokáže před provedením transakce v blockchainu zablokovat vyhodnocené hrozby.
Safe has moved its transaction-security network out of beta. Safenet Aegis went live in production on October 15, 2026, covering Ethereum Mainnet, Gnosis Chain, and Arbitrum.
The idea is to check a transaction before it executes and, if the user opts in, stop the bad ones onchain. Warning pop-ups are helpful. A contract that refuses to cooperate is more helpful.
The launch came through Safe’s governance structure, with Safe Foundation and SafeDAO steering the rollout. It also introduces paid transaction checks and a fresh round of staking rewards for SAFE holders.
How Safenet Aegis works
The first group of Sentinels includes OpenCover, BlockSecTeam, Candide Labs, and IntentGuard. Each operates independently of the others.
Validators then attest to those evaluations onchain. These validators are governed by SafeDAO, the community body that oversees the protocol.
The final layer is optional. Users can enable a formally verified Safenet Guard on their Safe account, which allows the network’s findings to be enforced directly onchain.
That distinction is the core of the product. Without the Guard, Aegis acts as an advisory service. With it, security goes beyond interface warnings and into the transaction logic itself.
Safe says audits for both the Guard and the staking contracts have been completed. User funds stay non-custodial throughout, so the network reviews transactions without ever taking control of the assets.
Fees, staking, and the beta numbers
The security checks are not a free add-on. Users pay onchain fees for transaction evaluations, and that money goes to the security providers doing the review.
One example given for the fee is 40 USDC.
The production launch follows a six-month beta that concluded in early October 2026. Over that stretch, approximately 4.5 million SAFE tokens were distributed as rewards.
Throughput reached around 100,000 transactions per week during the beta, giving the team a read on how the network behaves under load.
More than 72 million SAFE tokens were staked across roughly 865 participants after the beta ended.
Those participants do not need to do anything to carry their positions forward. Existing stakes transition to the production network without migration, which spares stakers the usual unstake-and-restake routine.
SafeDAO passed SEP 56, approving approximately 7.4 million SAFE from the treasury for a 12-month period that began on October 13, 2026.
The allocation is primarily earmarked for staking rewards. In practice, the DAO is underwriting a year of incentives while the fee side of the network gets established.
Background: from beta experiment to production layer
Integration into Safe{Wallet} is planned for Q4 2026. Until that ships, users looking to use Aegis will need to take the extra step of enabling the Guard themselves.
What this means for SAFE holders and Safe users
The key tension is between subsidized rewards and earned fees. For the next 12 months, SEP 56 money does much of the heavy lifting. The real test is whether paid transaction checks generate enough activity to keep Sentinels and validators engaged once that allocation runs its course.
Pricing will shape that answer. A fee like 40 USDC may be easy to justify for a treasury moving large sums, but smaller users may weigh it differently against the risk they are trying to avoid.
The launch cohort of Sentinels is four names: OpenCover, BlockSecTeam, Candide Labs, and IntentGuard. The model is built on independent judgment, so how that group grows will matter for how credible the network’s verdicts become.
Validators answer to SafeDAO, which ties the network’s reliability to the health of that DAO’s decision-making. That means governance votes now carry operational weight, not just treasury weight.
The planned Safe{Wallet} integration in Q4 2026 could move Aegis from an opt-in tool for security-minded teams to something closer to a default experience.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Kaye Quema. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Gnosis nasadil pravidlo Fast Confirmation Rule do mostů xDAI Bridge a Omnibridge, čímž zkrátil dobu vkladů z Etherea do Gnosis Chain přibližně z 13 minut na 13 sekund.
Moving funds from Ethereum to Gnosis Chain used to mean waiting long enough to brew a pot of coffee. Now the wait is about as long as it takes to read this paragraph.
Gnosis has integrated Ethereum’s Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) into its official bridges, the xDAI bridge and Omnibridge. Deposits from Ethereum mainnet now process in approximately 13 seconds. Before the change, they waited for full economic finality, which took about 13 minutes.
What changed, and what didn’t The switch went live on October 8, 2026. Gnosis says this makes it the first production system to run FCR, so other teams now have a real deployment to study.
The timeline also beat its own forecast. Gnosis documented the FCR integration on September 24, 2026, with a target of production rollout by the end of October. It shipped weeks ahead of that.
For users and developers, nothing needs to change. No wallet updates are required, no contracts need redeploying, and no settings need toggling. Every transfer that starts on Ethereum and heads to Gnosis now uses FCR by default.
The speedup only works in one direction. Transfers that start on Gnosis and go to Ethereum still rely on economic finality, which the research puts at roughly 5 minutes.
How fast confirmation actually works Ethereum’s standard finality works like the county office. Under the Casper FFG mechanism, a block counts as final only after two full epochs are finalized.
FCR is a feature in Ethereum consensus clients that checks the attestation weight behind a recent block. Attestations are votes from validators confirming that a block is valid. If enough validator weight backs a block within one slot, FCR treats it as confirmed.
For Gnosis, this means its bridge validators can release funds on the Gnosis side much sooner. They no longer wait for Ethereum to finish its full finality process. They act once the attestation signal is strong enough.
The speed has a cost. Economic finality carries a guarantee tied to a 33% adversarial threshold. FCR relies on a different threshold of approximately 25%.
To keep the change transparent, Gnosis has set up public monitors. Users can check the confirmation status of their transactions themselves rather than taking the bridge’s word for it.
Why Gnosis is doing this now The FCR rollout is not a one-off upgrade. Gnosis frames it as one step on its roadmap toward synchronous composability within the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ).
Gnosis says atomic cross-chain calls are planned next. An atomic call is an all-or-nothing operation across chains: either every step succeeds, or none of them do.
What this means for users, builders, and the wider ecosystem The most immediate benefit goes to anyone who regularly moves value from Ethereum into Gnosis. A wait of about 13 minutes was long enough to make bridging feel like a chore. A wait of approximately 13 seconds makes it feel close to a normal transaction.
The security trade-off deserves attention, especially from larger users. Moving from a 33% adversarial threshold to approximately 25% is a deliberate choice. The public monitors give users a way to check that confidence instead of assuming it.
The asymmetry also matters. Keeping Gnosis-to-Ethereum transfers on economic finality suggests Gnosis is willing to accept faster, slightly riskier confirmations coming in, but wants the stronger guarantee for funds going back to mainnet.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
LayerZero od 30. září ukončí off-chain podporu pro 13 sítí včetně Taiko a opBNB kvůli nízké aktivitě. Stargate Hydra tím přestane podporovat některé z nich.
PANews reported on September 26 that LayerZero has officially reminded users that, due to low activity on certain networks, it will continue to discontinue off-chain service support for the relevant chains in batches, and LayerZero DVN and Executor services will no longer cover these networks. The 13 chains affected starting September 30 are Aurora, Taiko, Japan Open Chain, LightLink, Viction, Anime, XPLA, Merlin, Gnosis, Zora, Otherworld Space, XAI, and opBNB.
As a result, Stargate Hydra will no longer support some of these networks. The official notice reminds affected users to redeem or bridge out assets such as USDC.e, WETH, and Hydra USDT from these chains as soon as possible; among them, Stargate's support for Aurora, Taiko, LightLink, and Gnosis already ended on September 23. According to a September 25 update, LayerZero's off-chain services for Gravity, Camp, Lisk, GOAT, and Metis will be discontinued on October 30, with the corresponding Stargate asset support ending on October 23. The official recommendation is to bridge assets to networks with deeper liquidity that remain supported, such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, or BSC, to avoid losing access to funds.
Spark ukončí SparkLend na Gnosis Chain k 14. září 2026; po aktivaci governance spellu budou všechny otevřené půjčky likvidovatelné. Uživatelé mají dluh splatit a z platformy odejít před tímto termínem.
Spark Finance is pulling the plug on its Gnosis Chain lending deployment. As of September 14, 2026, SparkLend on Gnosis will be fully deprecated, and any outstanding loans will become eligible for liquidation once a Sky governance spell executes.
For users still holding positions on the Gnosis instance, the message is simple: repay your debt before the cutoff, or face forced liquidation.
How we got here SparkLend launched on Gnosis Chain in September 2023, marking the protocol’s first expansion beyond Ethereum.
Spark began the wind-down process in early 2026, freezing new deposits and borrows on the Gnosis instance to limit further capital exposure. The protocol also raised the reserve factor to 50% across all assets on the Gnosis deployment, a move designed to accelerate the drawdown of outstanding positions by making the cost of staying in the market progressively less attractive.
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The assets affected span the full range of what was available on the Gnosis instance: WXDAI, sDAI, WETH, wstETH, EURe, USDT, USDC.e, GNO, and USDC.
The mechanics of the shutdown SparkLend operates under Sky governance as a permissionless, non-custodial money-market protocol, meaning protocol-level decisions like this one require a governance spell to execute on-chain. Once that spell goes live, the liquidation flag flips and undercollateralized or post-deadline positions become fair game for liquidators.
Existing positions technically remain active until September 14. DeFi liquidations are automated and indifferent to personal circumstances. A position that looks fine at the current collateral ratio could still become liquidatable if market conditions shift before a borrower gets around to closing it.
The practical advice from Spark is straightforward: repay loans now, withdraw collateral, and exit the Gnosis deployment entirely before the governance spell executes.
Liquidation penalties reduce the net value a borrower recovers from their collateral. Users who wait until the final days risk compounding that loss with any adverse price movement in their collateral assets.
Why Gnosis specifically The core reason for the shutdown is utilization, or more precisely the lack of it. Gnosis Chain was never able to generate the kind of lending volume that would make the deployment economically self-sustaining for Spark. Low usage translates directly to low interest revenue, which in turn means the operational overhead of maintaining a separate deployment, managing risk parameters, and monitoring positions produces a negative return on resources.
Spark has been explicit about this calculus. The Gnosis deployment contributed negligible revenue relative to its Ethereum counterpart, and the risk of maintaining exposure to a low-liquidity environment without commensurate reward was the deciding factor.
The decision also fits a pattern Spark established earlier in 2026, when the protocol took similar risk-reduction steps against certain Ethereum-based assets that were not performing at acceptable efficiency thresholds.
Spark left the door open to returning if market conditions on Gnosis improve materially.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Ethereum v srpnu zrychlilo díky růstu v oblasti Layer-2, DeFi a tokenizace; BlackRock rozšířil tokenizaci na mainnetu Ethereum. GnosisDAO zároveň schválil přesun Gnosis Chain na ZK-proven Ethereum Layer-2 rollup.
TLDR: Ethereum saw accelerated August activity across Layer-2 upgrades, institutional adoption and ecosystem development. BlackRock expanded tokenization on Ethereum while Gnosis and Whitechain pursued Layer-2 transitions. Privacy tools and wallet infrastructure advanced through new applications, security features and post-quantum technology. DeFi growth continued as Aave, Morpho and Uniswap reached new deposit and trading milestones. Ethereum development activity accelerated through August as builders across the ecosystem shipped new upgrades, launched fresh protocols, and expanded institutional integrations.
Layer-2 networks advanced their infrastructure, decentralized finance protocols recorded fresh deposit milestones, and privacy-focused applications gained new momentum.
The developments touched governance, tokenization, wallet security, and onchain gaming across the wider Ethereum landscape.
Institutional and Layer-2 Expansion Gain Momentum Ethereum’s Layer-2 ecosystem saw structural changes this month. GnosisDAO approved a vote to move Gnosis Chain from an independent Layer-1 network to a ZK-proven Ethereum Layer-2 rollup.
The shift introduces synchronous composability, allowing applications on Gnosis and Ethereum to interact within a single transaction.
Institutional interest in Ethereum also expanded. BlackRock introduced its Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund with a tokenized share class deployed on Ethereum mainnet.
The asset manager additionally began tokenizing share classes tied to its $311 billion European money market fund series on the network.
Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 35 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced through August.
1/ GnosisDAO approved a vote to transition @gnosischain from its own L1 to a ZK-proven Ethereum L2 rollup with synchronous composability, so apps on Gnosis and…
— Ethereum (@ethereum) September 3, 2026
Arbitrum activated its ArbOS Elara upgrade, bringing more responsive transaction fees to Arbitrum One. The update also increased Stylus smart contract capacity fourfold and added new features for chains built on the Arbitrum stack.
Elsewhere, Whitechain, the network connected to the WhiteBit exchange ecosystem, announced plans to transition from an independent Layer-1 into an Ethereum Layer-2 built on the OP Stack.
Ethereum client teams also introduced the Platåberget testnet to prepare implementations ahead of the Glamsterdam network upgrade.
Privacy Tools and Wallet Infrastructure Advance Privacy-focused development remained active across the Ethereum ecosystem in August. Aztec Network launched Alpha v5, a protocol upgrade that reduced private transaction proving times. The release also brought an initial group of privacy-preserving applications onto the network.
Privacy Boost introduced a new frontend application enabling users to send private transfers directly from connected wallets.
Wallet security also advanced through new releases. MetaMask launched its Agent Wallet, an agentic tool built with spending limits, allowlists, and configurable risk profiles.
Freedom Factory opened presales for PQ1, an air-gapped hardware wallet that signs transactions using post-quantum cryptography through an Ethereum smart account.
Privacy-focused wallet Cloaked reported reaching $650,000 in deposits and $1 million in transaction volume during its first 90 days of operation.
Web3Privacy also released an updated Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem Mapping for 2026, documenting the network’s growing privacy tooling landscape.
DeFi Growth and Ecosystem Programs Continue Decentralized finance activity on Ethereum showed continued expansion during the month. Aave v4 surpassed $525 million in deposits on Ethereum mainnet.
Morpho reported crossing $880 million in total deposits on Robinhood Chain within less than two months of going live, while also reaching $5.75 billion in deposits on Base.
Uniswap processed more than $1 billion in stock token volume on Robinhood Chain, contributing to over $20 billion in total volume since the platform’s July launch.
The exchange also launched v4 Permissioned Pools, a hook standard enabling allowlisted swaps for regulated assets while keeping the base protocol permissionless.
Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base for non-U.S. users, backed one-to-one by a regulated custodian and held in self-custody wallets.
Base separately opened applications for its Base Batches 004 accelerator program, supporting ten early-stage teams building on the network.
Ether.fi expanded its crypto neobank offering with tokenized stocks and portfolio-backed loans facilitated through Aave.
The Ethereum Foundation also launched an autoresearch challenge focused on post-quantum security, built alongside zkSecurity and EigenLabs, placing a machine-verified security problem on a public leaderboard for open contribution.
GnosisDAO schválilo přechod Gnosis Chain z nezávislé Layer 1 na rollup vypořádávaný na Ethereum. Tím skončí vlastní validátorský set a uvolní se zhruba 350 000 GNO.
GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded staking rewards.
Gnosis Chain is transitioning from a standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup and retiring its independent validator set, according to an announcement from Gnosis Chain and a proposal published on GnosisDAO's governance forum.
For GNO stakers, the approved direction would unlock roughly 350,000 GNO when the validator set is sunset and end the treasury-funded staking subsidy. For users and developers, xDAI would remain the gas token, while addresses, balances and contract state would continue without migration to a new chain.
The proposal's main technical promise is atomic access from Gnosis to Ethereum contracts and liquidity. But that synchronous composability will be one-directional at launch, with calls from Ethereum into Gnosis and broader cross-instance composability deferred to later development.
The change would make Gnosis Chain a Gnosis-operated instance of the Ethereum Economic Zone framework. The proposal says the network would produce blocks every two seconds, prove its state every Ethereum block and settle to Ethereum Layer 1.
The vote approved a strategic direction rather than a final technical design and requested no funding. Gnosis Ltd will initially operate a centralized composer that orders transactions, builds blocks and submits them for proving and settlement.
Proof-of-Stake Chain With Large Validator SetGnosis Chain began as xDai, a stablecoin-denominated Ethereum sidechain that GnosisDAO absorbed in a November 2021 merger, and switched to proof-of-stake in December 2022 in an upgrade modeled on Ethereum's Merge, with a deposit of one GNO per validator against Ethereum's 32 ETH.
The low threshold produced one of the largest validator sets in crypto, above 100,000 at the time of the merge, but not the fee revenue to pay for it. GIP-153 says fees cover "only a small fraction of even the minimal cost of security," leaving the DAO treasury to fund the rest through GNO issuance that dilutes non-stakers by about 2.3% a year, against sub-1% on Ethereum. The chain holds about $96.4 million in total value locked, according to DefiLlama.
The validator set was already contracting before the vote. GnosisDAO's July community summary put active validators at roughly 52,000, down from about 76,000 a month earlier, with approximately 295,000 GNO staked. GnosisDAO also cut Gnosis Ltd's annual funding to $15 million from a $30 million request in GIP-154, and in May approved a one-time, pro-rata treasury redemption in GIP-151 after tokenholders spent months arguing GNO traded below the DAO's net asset value.
Validator Security Gives Way to Ethereum SettlementGIP-153 says Ethereum validators will replace Gnosis Chain's validator set as the source of settlement security. Existing bridge validators are intended to move into a new role operating the instance's proof systems.
The proposal explicitly describes becoming less decentralized as a deliberate choice. It says a misbehaving composer would be able to delay or exclude transactions, although it could not forge state or reverse finalized history. A forced-inclusion route through Ethereum is listed as an option to evaluate later, not a launch feature.
The end of staking also leaves GNO's replacement economic role unfinished. The proposal intends to connect GNO to fee revenue from network activity, but does not select a mechanism. Fee sharing and buybacks are listed as possibilities for a later GIP after prover economics can be observed in production.
Full Composability Is a Later StepGnosis Chain said the transition would deliver “synchronous composability with mainnet,” something it said no existing Layer 2 offers. GIP-153 defines the initial capability more narrowly: a contract on Gnosis could call an Ethereum contract and use the result in the same atomic transaction, with the entire operation succeeding or reverting together.
At launch, composability would only run from Gnosis to Ethereum. An intents-based bridge is intended to cover the period before bidirectional and cross-instance calls become available.
The initial version would also use an interim proving setup, likely based on trusted execution environments, before moving to real-time zero-knowledge proving. The proposal targets the first Ethereum Economic Zone block for December 2026 or January 2027, with bidirectional composability and real-time proving expected during 2027.
Etherscan vyřadil Gnosis Chain z bezplatné API vrstvy, takže plný přístup k indexaci a datům je nyní dostupný jen v placených plánech. Gnosisscan má být navíc zrušen 11. srpna 2026.
If you’ve ever used Etherscan to check a transaction, verify a contract, or build a dApp that pulls on-chain data, you’ve relied on infrastructure that most people treat like tap water: always available, always free. That assumption is starting to crack.
Etherscan has moved Gnosis Chain out of its free API tier, pushing developers who need full indexing and API functionality toward paid plans. And by August 11, 2026, the dedicated Gnosisscan platform itself faces deprecation, meaning the shift to Pro-tier access isn’t a temporary inconvenience. It’s the new default.
What changed and why it matters As of November 22, 2025, Etherscan reduced its free API tier coverage to roughly 90% of previously supported chains. The reason is straightforward: higher transaction speeds, growing TPS rates, and sheer transaction volume across networks have pushed operational costs to a point where free universal coverage is no longer sustainable.
Gnosis Chain, identified as chain ID 100, is one of the networks that fell outside that 90% cutoff. Developers and applications that previously queried Gnosis data through Etherscan’s free endpoints now need to upgrade to a paid tier for continued access.
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Verified contract endpoints, including source code and ABI data, remain free across all chains, Gnosis included. But if your application relies on transaction history, token transfers, event logs, or any of the heavier indexing work, that’s now behind a paywall.
To soften the blow, Etherscan introduced a new Lite plan priced at approximately 25% of the cost of its previous lowest paid tier.
The Gnosisscan deprecation timeline Etherscan plans to deprecate Gnosisscan entirely on August 11, 2026. After that date, any remaining free-tier access points specific to Gnosis will redirect users toward Pro-tier subscriptions.
This creates a clear decision point for any project built on Gnosis Chain. Either budget for Etherscan’s paid plans, or migrate to an alternative indexer before the deadline arrives.
Alternatives and the competitive landscape Blockscout, an open-source blockchain explorer, has been positioning itself as an alternative for multichain indexing. It already supports a wide range of EVM-compatible networks, and the Gnosis community has historically maintained its own Blockscout instance.
What this means for developers and investors For developers, the immediate action item is auditing any application that calls Etherscan’s API for Gnosis Chain data. If your dApp, dashboard, or analytics tool relies on those endpoints, you need to either subscribe to the Lite or Pro plan, or begin integrating with an alternative indexer like Blockscout before the deprecation deadline.
The Lite plan at 25% of the prior lowest tier’s cost offers a middle ground, but teams should evaluate whether that tier includes the specific endpoints and rate limits their applications require.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Gnosis Pay oznámil exploit zranitelnosti v modulech Delay a Roles, při němž útočníci získali 1,5 mil. USD a dalších asi 300 tis. USD bylo znepřístupněno. Gnosis ztráty absorboval a všechny prostředky uživatelům obnovil.
On 1 June 2026, attacker(s) exploited a vulnerability that directly affected software modules (Delay Module & Roles Module) used in connection with the Gnosis Pay card safe infrastructure. This resulted in certain user safe wallets, and the funds stored there, either being compromised or at risk of compromise.
The team quickly contained the issue, taking card services offline and co-ordinating with partners to isolate attacker accounts, while keeping partners and users informed, and guaranteeing user funds.
The attacker(s) were able to extract a total of $1.5m. An additional ~$300k was rendered inaccessible and we are exploring recovery options.
Gnosis absorbed the losses and all funds were restored to users.
The TimelineWhenWhat1 Jun 2026
Monitoring flagged the attacker's first large unauthorized transfer at 06:17 UTC and, following verification, the emergency response was initiated.
Root cause identified as a vulnerability in the Zodiac modules at 08:06 UTC.
1 Jun 2026
Card services taken offline. Bridge to Gnosis Chain paused by bridge validators. Attacker-linked addresses shared with stablecoin issuers to isolate where possible.
1–2 Jun 2026
Gnosis leadership proactively notified external projects that were at risk from the same vulnerability.
The Zodiac modules were repaired and shared with ChainSecurity for a focused review.
3 Jun 2026
On the evening of Wednesday, June 3rd, the first accounts were reactivated, including account balance restoration, card re-enabling, and resumption of normal operations.
An emergency fund was established and made available for users in extremis.
4 Jun 2026
ChainSecurity completed their review, the modules were also reviewed by internal teams, and we began the phased resumption of services.
4–7 Jun 2026
We deployed newly engineered card safe modules in tranches, linking to users' existing profiles. This was followed by phased restoration of full account balances and resumption of normal services.
6 Jun 2026
Full services restored to 99% of users, with the remaining accounts restored early the following week.
No users lost funds in the exploit.
Description of the ExploitThe attack was rapidly detected by treasury manager, NOCA, via their monitoring infrastructure. We immediately triggered our incident response protocol and identified the root cause within 2 hours.
The impact was isolated to the card safe software module components (specifically the Delay and Roles Modules provided by Zodiac). To ensure containment during the active triage phase, we systematically paused card transaction processing, authorisation systems, and new user onboarding.
To let an account owner move funds without holding native gas tokens, the account confirms requests with a signature check. It uses a standard method, ERC-1271, which asks a contract a yes-or-no question: is this signature valid?
The check read the answer the contract returned. It did not check whether the call had succeeded. Attacker(s) could deploy a contract that fails on purpose while still returning the "valid" code. To the account, a forged approval looked real. That let the attacker(s) queue withdrawals from accounts they did not own.
The vulnerability entered the Zodiac code in version 3.4.0, released on 30 October 2023, when signature support was added (commit 9a9e380).
The flawed check worked like this:
The fix is small. Also require the call to succeed:
The initial exploit contract is verifiable here: 0x5a77953caa27ed4638f4dfdc665b8064d0e97a35.
A signature patch was flagged as a security fix by the Zodiac team on 5 June 2026 (days after the exploit began).
The Amounts InvolvedAmountTaken by the attacker(s)
~$1.5M
Funds in inaccessible accounts
~$300k
Total
~$1.8M across 5,281 wallets with balance ≥ $1
Assets taken by the attacker(s):
AssetTaken (USD value)GNO
641,159
EURe
453,175
USDC.e
399,121
SAFE
2,202
WETH
323
xDAI
135
USDC
28
USDT
7
Total
~1,496,151
Actions Now UnderwayGrowing the security team.
We are growing the security team and bringing in external researchers to work alongside them, adding dedicated capacity.
Conducting a full internal review of our security practices.
We have an ongoing review of onchain and offchain systems: smart contracts, infrastructure, processes, and dependencies we rely on.
Completing an independent, holistic security assessment.
We are re-assessing our codebase and infrastructure end-to-end with an external security firm, giving us an outside perspective.
Widening our audit scope.
We have extended our smart contract audits to also cover external contracts we depend on.
Actively monitoring dependencies.
We actively monitor the dependencies we rely on, with a clear process to review and act on upstream security fixes quickly.
Rolling out the new Gnosis Pay product (known internally as v2).
We recently completed a full rebuild of the Gnosis Pay product and it is optimized for observability and streamlined operations. That observability ensures our ability to respond rapidly in future.
PeckShield varuje, že oficiální účet Gnosis na X byl kompromitován. Uživatelé by neměli klikat na odkazy, připojovat peněženku ani podepisovat transakce.
PeckShield, a blockchain security company, has warned that Gnosis's official X account has been compromised. Until the issue is fixed, users are strongly advised not to interact with any posts, links, reward campaigns, voting announcements, or wallet connection requests coming from the account.
According to the malicious post that is currently up on the Gnosis account, Gnosis users can take part in a rewards vote and receive an early bonus if they vote within the first 24 hours. This is a classic phishing technique meant to instill a sense of urgency and coerce users into clicking on phony links before confirming their legitimacy.
One of the most common attack methods in the cryptocurrency sector is still compromised social media accounts. Hackers frequently use reputable project accounts to advertise phony staking opportunities, token claims, governance votes, and airdrops. Funds can be depleted in a matter of seconds after victims connect their wallets and sign malicious transactions.
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Do not interact with the compromised account if you use Gnosis. Never sign transactions, connect your wallet, click links, or divulge personal information. If users have already interacted with the phishing website, they should revoke wallet approvals right away and, if necessary, transfer assets to a secure wallet.
MiniPay spouští digitální debetní kartu Visa poháněnou Gnosis Pay. Uživatelé mohou utrácet stablecoiny u více než 175 milionů obchodníků, kteří přijímají Visa.
MiniPay, Opera's self-custodial stablecoin wallet, has launched the MiniPay Card: a digital Visa debit card powered by Gnosis Pay. Eligible users can now spend their stablecoin balances across Europe (EEA), Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia at more than 175 million Visa merchant locations worldwide. Gnosis Pay manages the card program behind it.
MiniPay already had the wallet, the users, and the balances. What its users did not have was a way to spend those balances at a normal checkout. Gnosis Pay closes that gap. We built the card program so a wallet can connect its stablecoin balances to Visa without becoming a card issuer, a bank, or a payments company itself.
The last meter problemIn a lot of markets, people already save and get paid in digital dollars. Holding stablecoins is solved. Spending them is the hard part.
A balance sitting in a wallet does not pay for groceries, a bus fare, or a subscription. To do that, the money has to reach a merchant through rails the merchant already accepts. For most of the world, that means Visa. Friederike Ernst, co-founder of Gnosis, puts it this way:
"For someone in Lagos or Nairobi who already holds savings in digital dollars, the missing piece isn't the wallet. It's the last meter. The ability to spend those balances at a checkout in another country without the merchant needing to know or care about crypto."
The last meter is the distance between a stablecoin balance and a card terminal. It is short, and it is where most stablecoin products stop. The MiniPay Card covers it.
What the MiniPay Card isThe MiniPay Card is a digital Visa debit card that lives inside the MiniPay wallet. Users add it to Apple Pay or Google Pay and spend with a tap, online or in person, anywhere Visa is accepted. The balance in the wallet is the balance on the card.
Behind the familiar card experience sits a stablecoin card program. When a user taps, their stablecoin balance is settled to Visa in real time, and the merchant is paid in their local currency. The merchant sees a normal Visa payment.
How Gnosis Pay powers itGnosis Pay is the card program manager for the MiniPay Card. That means we handle the technical layer that turns a wallet balance into a working card, and we coordinate the regulated parts of the stack rather than performing them ourselves.
Here is how the pieces fit:Issuing. The card is issued through Monavate's regulated card issuing, on Visa's global network. Gnosis Pay is the program manager around that.
Settlement. When the card is used, the stablecoin balance is bridged to Visa in real time. The merchant receives local currency with no crypto-specific setup.
Self-Custody. Funds stay in the user's self-custodial wallet until the moment of spending. MiniPay users keep control of their balances.
Onboarding. A wallet that already has users can pass its existing user base and verification into the program, rather than starting from zero.
This is the work that usually takes a wallet many months to assemble piece by piece: an issuer relationship, a Visa program, settlement, and the compliance coordination to run it across markets. Gnosis Pay packages it so a fintech, neobank or wallet can ship the card instead of building a card company.
Key takeaway: As the card program manager, Gnosis Pay connects a wallet's stablecoin balances to Visa in real time, so the merchant gets paid in local currency and never has to know crypto was involved.
Who it is forThe MiniPay Card launches into an existing base. Since 2023, MiniPay has grown to more than 16 million activated wallets, with strong adoption across Africa and other high-growth regions. The card is available to eligible users in selected markets across Europe (EEA), Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, anywhere Visa is accepted.
It also builds on what MiniPay already shipped. After introducing Virtual Bank Accounts, which let users receive money straight into their wallets as stablecoins, the card adds the other half: a way to spend those balances online and in person. Money in, money out, in one wallet.
Why this matters beyond MiniPayMiniPay is one wallet. The pattern is the point. Any wallet or fintech with users and stablecoin balances faces the same last meter, and the same choice: build a card company, or plug into a card program that already runs. Gnosis Pay is built for the second path. We did the same integration work for MiniPay that any partner would do, making this launch a template for future wallet integrations.
It also fits how Gnosis thinks about money. Stablecoins should work like money, which means they have to be spendable. A balance you can hold but not spend is a savings account with extra steps. A balance you can tap at any Visa terminal is closer to the thing money is supposed to be.
Tip: If you run a wallet or a fintech, the rails behind the MiniPay Card are the same ones you integrate with Gnosis Pay. The build starts in the docs.
Availability, fees, and rewardsThe MiniPay Card is launching to eligible users in selected markets. Find details on availability and product features at minipay.to/virtual-card.
Fees. No monthly or annual fee. Transactions carry a low nominal FX fee and ATM withdrawal fee.
Wallet integration. The card works with Apple Pay and Google Pay for contactless payments.
Rewards. In selected markets, the card offers cashback in digital assets, including Tether Gold (XAUt0), USDT and USDC.
This launch continues the path Gnosis Pay has been on, from remittances to retail: making stablecoin balances usable in the places people spend. It is also a working example of the ownership-first model we have been building toward, where users keep custody and still get the convenience of a card.
FAQWhat is the MiniPay Card?
The MiniPay Card is a digital Visa debit card inside Opera's MiniPay wallet. It lets eligible users spend their stablecoin balances at over 175 million Visa merchants, online or in person.
Where can you use the MiniPay Card?
It is available to eligible users in selected markets across Europe (EEA), Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, and it spends anywhere Visa is accepted.
Do you need crypto knowledge to use the MiniPay Card?
No. Users add the card to Apple Pay or Google Pay and tap to pay. It spends like any other contactless Visa card.
How is the MiniPay Card different from a regular debit card?
It spends from your own self-custodial stablecoin balance instead of a bank account. You keep custody of your funds until the moment you tap.
Do merchants need to accept crypto?
No. Merchants are paid in their local currency and see a normal Visa payment. They do not need to accept crypto or set anything up.
Build your card programThe last meter is closed for 16 million wallets. The next ones are the wallets and fintechs that have not shipped a card yet, and the rails are ready for them.
If you are building one, book a demo or learn more on gnosispay.com.
