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 implemented ERC-7715 with MetaMask, enabling scoped on-chain transaction permissions and guardrails.
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Implemented ERC-7715 with MetaMask, enabling agents to request scoped on-chain permissions for transactions with specific action limits and guardrails.
Achieved $104M+ in total value secured by Chainlink oracles on the Gnosis network, representing 85%+ market share of oracle services.
Launched EEZ (Ethereum Economic Zone) L1-L2 rollup framework March 30-April 2, 2026, co-funded by Ethereum Foundation and Zisk, unifying Ethereum L1 and L2s for synchronous composability and interoperability via ZK technology.
Listed in Grayscale Research's Crypto Sectors Top 20 for Q1 2026 under Smart Contract Platforms with $0.4B market capitalization.
Integrated Chainlink CRE (Cross-chain Routing Engine) on Gnosis Chain.
Ranked as the third-highest chain by 7-day stablecoin inflow percentage.
Contributed $300K to Liminal Money through Gnosis Pay.
Sponsored WalletCon on March 31, 2026, in Cannes. Participated as a featured speaker at Pragma Cannes summit during EthCC on April 2, 2026.
Listed among globally significant startups founded in Europe in a tweet highlighting notable companies across multiple sectors including blockchain and fintech.
Crossed $150,000,000 in total transaction volume through Gnosis Pay.
Integrated with Otto AI, a DeFi co-pilot agent platform supporting cross-chain workflows across 11 networks.
Released new Erigon client update with new Chiado (Gnosis testnet) boot nodes, improved eth_getLogs functionality, Shutter decryption fixes, and RPC/P2P stability improvements.
A governance vote for treasury management is live with 22 proposals competing for selection, requiring GNO or osGNO token holders to participate.
Gnosis Chain is being used as the data availability layer for Harbour, a new onchain transaction queue system built by Safe Research that eliminates reliance on centralized servers for multisig wallet transaction queuing.
Integrated with Azuro Protocol as one of the supported deployment chains for prediction and betting dApps alongside Base, Polygon, and Chiliz.
Gnosis Chain is used by Fileverse for names, accounts, permissioning, and document registration functionality.
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.
processed over 300 million transactions on the Gnosis Chain network in 2025
Collaborated with SPACEID to integrate .gno domain names for onchain identity.
Activated Fusaka hard fork on mainnet April 14, 2026 at 12:06 UTC, Epoch 1714688.
Featured in a report by Keyrock and Dune highlighting that Polymarket is built on the Gnosis Conditional Token Framework.
Ranked as number 2 in terms of transaction count, trailing only ether_fi and outperforming both AVICI (ranked #3) and MetaMask.
x402 expands to Gnosis, providing pay-per-request payment infrastructure for developers building on the platform.
Opened claims portal for users affected by November 2025 Balancer exploit, with redistribution facilitated by Merkl; Nethermind 1.35.1 client released for operators to support Balancer Hardfork and fund recovery.
Gnosis fired treasury managers after discovering they only deposited funds in Aave while collecting millions in fees.
Gnosis Pay volumes increase from $400K in March 2024 to $8M-$10M currently.
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.
Enabled ordering physical goods with Circles payments, adding to stablecoin support.
Passed 9-month advisory futarchy pilot with $100k temporary liquidity.
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.
Partnership with Frankencoin, Zeal Wallet, and Mt Pelerin enables users to hold Swiss Franc stablecoin (ZCHF) and spend it as Euros through the payment system.
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.
Karpatkey will no longer manage the treasury following a governance proposal that passed with strong majority.
Team announces building Gnosis VPN as a new product, referencing it as response to major incidents.
Rebrands, encompassing Safe, CoWSwap, Karpatkey, Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay, and Gnosis Business. Discusses 9-month futarchy pilot with $100k liquidity using prediction markets; acts as one of six founding validators for Safenet.
Gnosis.io completes rebrand consolidating its ecosystem products including Safe, CoWSwap, Karpatkey, Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Business. DAO discusses 9-month futarchy pilot with $100k liquidity where prediction markets estimate 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.
The DAO holds discussion regarding the removal of treasury manager @kpk_io from their position.
GnosisDAO discusses terminating its treasury management company Karpatkey (KPK), which was originally spun out from Gnosis and manages treasuries for DAOs and foundations.
Partners Greencart for Gnosis Pay card, offering users cashback, gift cards, and rewards.
Aave on Gnosis chain now supports EURe stablecoin with regulated SEPA settlement capabilities for compliant euro flows.
Team participates in Ethereum security panel event with Sherlock DeFi and Ethereum Foundation, discussing self-custody solutions being developed.
Launched Gnosis Ramps, an aggregation layer supporting EUR and BRL with zero-cost on/off-ramping, and Gnosis Pay across 30+ LATAM countries. Saw 6x stablecoin usage growth in LATAM over 60 days ending February 28, 2026, and achieved 7 years 100% uptime as of February 2026.
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.
x402 integrates Pearl v1 AI agents, supports ERC-8004 standard for AI agent onchain identity, reputation, and validation infrastructure.
Monerium discusses integration between its EURe Euro stablecoin and Gnosis Pay, covering how the stablecoin brings SEPA rails and bank integrations onchain.
The payment card service has processed over $100 million in payments across more than 140 countries.
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.
Rotki app integration enables users to query and track historical gnosispay transactions onchain, including everyday purchases like groceries.
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.
StakeWise DAO recovers 13,495 osGNO tokens worth $1.7M from Balancer V2 exploiter with Gnosis Chain team assistance, representing full recovery of stolen osGNO assets. Recovered funds will be returned pro-rata to affected users.
GnosisVC judges Turtle Tank pitches on November 19, 4:30-5:30 PM at Stable Summit stage during DeFiConnect, offering liquidity to selected projects.
Two additional pools (wstETH/WETH and stEUR/EURe) are confirmed affected by the Balancer v2 vulnerability, expanding the scope beyond the initially reported GNO/osGNO and sDAI/EURe pools.
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.
An exploit targeting Balancer v2 pools leads to emergency freezing of GNO/osGNO and EURe/sDAI pools, and partial halting of bridging out from Gnosis Chain.
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.
Gnosis Pay achieves 1 million payments milestone with $100 million in transaction volume, enables Google Pay and Apple Pay for all cardholders, and expands to Brazil market.
Ormi Subgraphs integration enables fast, real-time blockchain data access for developers building on Gnosis.
SafeBoost incentive program officially concludes with final distribution of points and partner incentives to Safe wallet users who engaged with PoolTogether, Beefy Finance, and Contango protocols.
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.
DeFi research report from @dl_research positions EURe and Gnosis Pay integration as the benchmark example of utility-driven liquidity retention, contrasting it positively against incentive-dependent models that failed.
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.
Reaches 10-year anniversary and launches 3.0 phase connecting all ecosystem projects via $GNO token, with accelerated focus on 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.