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Gnosis Safe

Gnosis Safe

TL;DR:

Gnosis Safe is a multisignature smart wallet—funds can only move if a predefined number of trusted signers approve. This allows communities, teams, and DAOs to manage treasuries securely and transparently, with shared control and accountability.


In public goods and capital coordination, Gnosis Safe is the default mechanism for shared funding decisions. It replaces centralized control with programmable governance, enabling:

  • DAO treasuries
  • Community grant committees
  • Milestone-based funding disbursements
  • Trust-based fund allocation


Signers can be updated, thresholds adjusted, and safes integrated into governance frameworks (e.g. Snapshot, Zodiac, or Allo Protocol pools).


While not a funding mechanism in itself, Gnosis Safe is foundational infrastructure for most funding flows in Web3. It supports modular extensions and onchain automation, and is used by thousands of DAOs globally.

Best For

  • Treasury management with shared control
  • Grant programs or committees
  • Secure distribution of community capital
  • Coordinating between funders, stewards, and contributors

Good At

  1. Preventing unilateral access to funds
  2. Supporting transparent and secure governance
  3. Creating a base layer for funding mechanisms (grants, streams, etc.)
  4. Managing capital in a programmable, composable way

Dependencies / Requirements

  • A Safe instance with defined owners and threshold
  • Governance process (formal or informal) for proposing and signing transactions
  • Optional: integrations (Snapshot, Zodiac, Safe Apps, Allo)
  • Clear documentation and access control for contributors

Not Good At

  • Directly deciding who should get funded (it enforces, doesn’t decide)
  • Scaling to very large, fluid voter sets without delegation or modules
  • Automating complex mechanisms without custom tooling

Who Should Use It?

  • Any DAO or team managing shared capital
  • Public goods ecosystems needing secure treasury flows
  • Grantmakers or councils requiring multisig review
  • Protocols looking for modular governance over assets

Example Use Cases

  • A grants committee uses Gnosis Safe to manage a pool of DAI for quarterly rounds
  • A city DAO holds a shared wallet for participatory budgeting, with trusted community signers
  • A mutual aid network creates a Safe where 3-of-5 stewards must sign to release emergency funds