what's gnosis?
Gnosis is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that governs a suite of blockchain infrastructure and applications aimed at enabling full-stack decentralization for an open internet. Founded in 2015, it provides tools such as Safe (a multisig wallet with over $58B TVL), CoW Swap (a DEX with $130B traded), Gnosis Pay (available in 151 countries), and Gnosis Chain (an Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 with 300,000 validators and zero downtime). The project's purpose is to foster innovation in DeFi, payments, and governance through community-driven development. Key features include the GNO token for DAO governance via Gnosis Improvement Proposals (GIPs), conditional token frameworks for prediction markets, and recent initiatives like automated GNO rewards via Autoclaim for card top-ups and ecosystem funding through proposals like the Growth Fund pilot.
Gnosis recorded a 59.3% weekly GitHub dev activity increase, ranking top 10 by Jan 13, 2026.
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Recorded a 59.3% increase in weekly GitHub development activity events, ranking among the top 10 crypto ecosystems by development activity growth for the week ending January 13, 2026.
Sponsors the BUIDL conference in Lisbon on 2026-01-07 alongside Near Protocol, OpenGradient, Aurora, Immunefi, ScopeLift, Miden, and Starknet Foundation.
Hard fork scheduled for December 22, 2025 at 16:00 CET requiring execution client updates (Geth v1.16.7-gc.9, Reth v1.0.0, Nethermind v1.35.7, Erigon v3.3.2) and consensus client updates (Nimbus v25.11.1, Lighthouse v8.0.1, Teku v25.11.1, Lodestar v1.37.0).
Featured in a report by Keyrock and Dune highlighting that Polymarket is built on the Gnosis Conditional Token Framework.
x402 expands to Gnosis, providing pay-per-request payment infrastructure for developers building on the platform.
Nethermind 1.35.1 client releases for Gnosis operators to support an upcoming Balancer Hardfork and fund recovery event. Operators need to update their nodes for this protocol upgrade.
Gnosis fired treasury managers after discovering they only deposited funds in Aave while collecting millions in fees.
Gnosis voted no on CoWSwap's latest budget proposal, resulting in its rejection.
GIP-144 passes on Snapshot, approving GnosisDAO support for annual renewal of Blockscout SLA and hosting from January 2026 through December 2026.
The Gnosis app will soon support stablecoins, expanding stablecoin utility beyond existing integrations with Safe, CowSwap, and Gnosis Pay.
GIP-145 governance proposal is live, proposing a 9-month advisory futarchy pilot with $100k temporary liquidity allocation as a GnosisDAO phase 2 proposal.
Gnosis Chain migrates its RPC infrastructure from Gateway to Tenderly, requiring users currently using Gateway as their RPC provider to transition as soon as possible.
Picnic BR in Brazil and Zeal Wallet in Europe partner with Gnosis Pay, enabling users to make payments directly from their wallets using Aave gains through APIs.
GIP-144 governance proposal is live on Snapshot for voting on Blockscout SLA and hosting renewal for January 2026 - December 2026, with voting ending December 9th, 2025.
Early access event in Dublin demonstrates new Gnosis app, preparing for broader launch to all users.
Impossible Finance proposes a Treasury Council for Gnosis DAO with prediction markets and KPI-based incentives, serving as specialist steward for the Labs lane with a capped active investment pilot.
Ethrex, a minimalist Rust Ethereum execution client running in production, will integrate with Gnosis Chain in the upcoming weeks.
Gnosis opens 6 positions across technical and business functions, including Chief Revenue Officer for Gnosis Business and roles supporting Gnosis VPN, Gnosis Pay, Gnosis Chain, and Gnosis App products.
Development team focuses efforts on integrating local currencies into local payment rail systems.
RealT, a tokenized real estate project, is the largest project on Gnosis Chain by TVL with over $150M.
Treasury manager position eliminated with 88% governance vote approval as part of cost reduction efforts.
GnosisDAO officially terminates Karpatkey treasury management contract after paying $8.5M in fees over the past two years.
Community votes overwhelmingly to remove Karpatkey from treasury management, citing poor responsiveness and lack of adaptability as the project shifts toward business-driven decision making.
Team announces building Gnosis VPN as a new product, referencing it as response to major incidents.
Rebrand reinforces business lines spanning Safe, CoWSwap, Karpatkey, Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Business. DAO discusses 9-month futarchy pilot with $100k liquidity using prediction markets to gauge proposal impacts on GNO price.
Treasury size stands at approximately $300M excluding GNO tokens, with mounting community criticism over poor treasury performance and high Karpatkey management fees, alongside calls for tokenomics overhaul and transparency improvements on illiquid asset valuations.
GnosisDAO discusses terminating its treasury management company Karpatkey (KPK), which was originally spun out from Gnosis and manages treasuries for DAOs and foundations.
Team presents Gnosis Pay at DuneCon25 conference and actively seeks partnerships for launching stablecoin cards.
Team participates in Ethereum security panel event with Sherlock DeFi and Ethereum Foundation, discussing self-custody solutions being developed.
LATAM region goes live with Gnosis Pay now operating across over 30 countries, while Gnosis Chain maintains 7 years of continuous uptime.
Pearl v1 launches with agents having already executed over 10 million transactions on Gnosis Chain.
The project introduces Gnosis 3.0 as a roadmap to Forks Banks.
All project components are unified into four distinct product brands including new Gnosis Personal and Gnosis Business offerings, powered by Safe and CoWSwap. The team will be at EFDevcon offering to help launch stablecoin cards with Gnosis Pay.
The project enters its consumer era, marking a new strategic phase in development.
The recovery from the Balancer hack involves burning stolen osGNO tokens and reminting them to DAO wallets, which raises centralization concerns.
Gnosis successfully saved user funds and responded swiftly to a Balancer hack that occurred this week.
Shutter completes transition of Gnosis Keyper Set, expanding active keypers from 5 to 8 nodes to improve security and uptime for MEV protection and censorship resistance on the chain.
Monerium discusses integration between its EURe Euro stablecoin and Gnosis Pay, covering how the stablecoin brings SEPA rails and bank integrations onchain.
New governance proposal GIP-142 requests GnosisDAO funding for the Finality SLO Pack including Upstream-first Alerts, Tiny dApp Finality Adapter, and Chiado Chaos Drills, proposed by DappsoverApps.
Gnosis Bridge completes migration of reserves from sDAI to sUSDS for stable yield continuity, requiring third-party bridges using xDAI/sDAI to upgrade their interfaces.
CoW Swap launches multi-chain routing across 8 blockchains: Ethereum, Gnosis, BNB, Lens, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Base with MEV-protected, gasless swaps.
Over 50% of validators execute a soft fork to prevent the hacker from extracting funds following the Balancer attack. Bridges resume normal operations shortly after restrictive measures are lifted.
StakeWise DAO recovers 73.5% of funds stolen in the Balancer V2 exploit through collaboration with Balancer and Gnosis Chain teams.
Gnosis Chain invests in idOS_network's $4.5M funding round led by Fabric Ventures, alongside Arbitrum, Circle Ventures, Ripple, and NEAR Foundation. Stakewise team and contributors successfully prevent attacker from accessing stolen GNO tokens from the Balancer exploit.
Full recovery of 13,495 osGNO tokens (~$1.7M) completed from the Balancer exploiter. Recovered funds will be returned to affected users pro-rata according to pre-exploit balances.
GnosisVC judges Turtle Tank pitches on November 19, 4:30-5:30 PM at Stable Summit stage during DeFiConnect, offering liquidity to selected projects.
The GNO/osGNO liquidity pool is confirmed affected by the Balancer v2 vulnerability, and the Gnosis Chain bridge has been partially paused as a protective measure while working with partners to secure funds.
StakeWise smart contracts including osGNO are not affected by the Balancer V2 exploit.
Aave completes deprecation of legacy USDC market on Gnosis Chain, freezing deposits and borrows while the ecosystem shifts to USDC.e for unified liquidity.
New governance proposal GIP-141 asks GnosisDAO to fund Strategic Visual Adoption Package, phase 2 proposal by Linodefi.
The platform reaches 1 million payments and $100 million in transaction volume, launches in Brazil with Pix support, integrates Google Pay and Apple Pay for all cardholders, introduces virtual cards and ENS domains on cards, and partners with Zeal Wallet, Picnic BR, and Rebind.
Ormi Subgraphs integration enables fast, real-time blockchain data access for developers building on Gnosis.
An airdrop from @safe was distributed to certain gnosispay users.
Governance proposal GIP-140 replaces the subgraph GNO strategy with on-chain and beacon chain readers, voting on October 28.
Governance proposal GIP-140 goes to Snapshot vote on October 28, 2025.
User spending £100k+ with Gnosis card reports service issues including refund problems, poor customer support, and intrusive fund checks, switches to competitors Avici and KASTcard.
New Partner Apps page launches on website, showcasing integrations with Gnosis Pay including Zeal Wallet, Rebind, and Picnic BR.
Governance proposal GIP-137 for renewing the Delegate Program rejected on Snapshot.
Research organization @dl_research cites EURe on Gnosis Chain and Gnosis Pay as the benchmark example of utility-driven liquidity retention in DeFi liquidity sustainability study.
Project reaches 10-year milestone and commits to accelerating four core ecosystem projects: Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay, Gnosis HQ, and Metrix.
Governance proposal GIP-139 for ProbeLab network metrics support rejected, and new proposal GIP-140 for revamping Snapshot voting strategies opens for voting until October 28, 2025.
Rotki announces integration with Gnosis Pay, enabling users to import all payment activity and cashback locally while maintaining full data privacy.
Gnosis Pay reaches $105 million in crypto card payment volume across 115,000 merchants in 130 countries, with next target set at $1 billion.
Gnosis Pay joins Curve's Stable Summit November 18-19 in Buenos Aires with Aave, Coinbase, Sky Ecosystem, and S&P Global for two-day event on stablecoin infrastructure and regulation.
New swap promotion on Circles platform offers bonus for exchanging CRC tokens to GNO.
Rahul Rumalla serves as CEO of Safe, the asset custody solution that originated from Gnosis DAO.
New integration launches between Frankencoin ZCHF, Zeal Wallet, Gnosis Pay, and Mt Pelerin, enabling users to hold yield-earning Swiss Franc stablecoin until the moment of payment.
Stablecoins from 30 countries are now on Gnosis, including major economies like the US, Germany, France, UK, and Brazil.
A vote on legal entity matters ends October 16.
Validator push notifications for Gnosis Chain are coming soon to Dappnode Premium, following the existing integration for Ethereum.
Two governance proposals are scheduled: GIP-140 vote concludes October 14 and GIP-129 vote takes place October 16.
Gasless refuel feature launches on Gnosis Chain, enabling users to swap tokens for gas without needing gas upfront.
Voted best self-custodial crypto card by The Block, marking significant industry recognition for the platform.
GIP-138 governance proposal passes on Snapshot, approving funding for NodeSentinel maintenance.
New 'Autoclaim' functionality enables automatic top-up of Gnosis Pay cards using GNO earned from network validation.
Transaction volume exceeds $100M through card payments, up from $87M+ reported in late August, with 4% cashback (5% for validators).
GIP-134 governance proposal passes on Snapshot, approving pilot of a Growth Fund for small-scale, community-led ecosystem funding.
Gnosis participates in a stablecoin innovation panel at TOKEN2049 conference alongside Coinbase and Kadena, discussing real-world applications driving adoption.
GIP-134 governance voting ends in a day for piloting a Growth Fund for ecosystem funding, while new proposal GIP-138 seeks funding for node-sentinel.xyz maintenance.
GIP-136 governance proposal goes live on Snapshot for community voting on supporting Gnosis Explorer maintenance, with voting ending October 6th, 2025.
GnosisDAO joins the idOS_network Consortium alongside Arbitrum, Circle Ventures, Ripple, NEAR, and other major blockchain projects to build key infrastructure elements for dApps.
Gnosis Pay partners with Rebind to offer exclusive priority waitlist access to its users for card-related services.
Dappnode enhances its promotional partnership by offering 1 year of free premium services with the purchase of Dappnode Home × Gnosis Edition hardware.
GnosisPay integrates with Frankencoin ZCHF system to bring Swiss Franc functionality onchain, showcased at a live Zurich event.
Frankencoin ZCHF integration with Zeal Wallet goes live, enabling zero-fee onramp/offramp, yield earning, and global spending capabilities.
New partnership announcement scheduled for Tuesday involving Frankencoin ZCHF, Zeal Wallet, and Mt Pelerin, focusing on integrations to simplify holding, earning and spending.
The Fusaka Audit Contest launches with co-sponsorship from GnosisDAO and Lido Finance.
A $30M per year funding proposal for Gnosis Ltd passes via prediction market voting mechanism, resulting in GNO pump as predicted by the market. The DAO successfully tested futarchy governance where prediction markets determined the funding decision outcome.
Customer service response times of 6+ days are causing user frustration and potential churn despite cashback and yield benefits.
Erigon client version 3.1.0 now officially supports Shutter's encrypted mempool on Gnosis Chain, joining Nethermind as the second major client to implement this MEV protection feature.
Dappnode announces promotional partnership offering node runners 14 days free and 10% off annual plans with Gnosis-specific promo code for validator infrastructure services.
GnosisDAO considers gEURO initiative, a new EUR-pegged overcollateralized stablecoin on Gnosis Chain backed by ETH, BTC and GNO assets, requesting $50k for audit plus $5M liquidity support at launch.
Community Spaces event scheduled featuring GnosisGuild members alongside RAILGUN contributors and Logos network representatives to discuss RAILGUN alpha developments.
GNO tokens can now be used to mint Frankencoins, introducing new utility through integration with the Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin project.
New proposal debates launching gEURO, a €1-pegged stablecoin backed by multiple assets, seeking $50K for audits and $5M initial liquidity.