Safe Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Ekira
About the event
- Project: Safe (Gnosis)
- Guests: Lukas Schor
- Topic: Manage crypto assets with smart contract wallets
- Event schedule: October 25, 2022
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Lukas Schor
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Lukas Schor graduated from University of St.Gallen. He is Passionate about how we can make web3 more secured and easy to use. Lukas is also passionate about emerging technologies and how society is impacted by them. He love working with (software) engineers on building innovative products.
- May 2022 - Present (6 months) : Co-founder of Safe formerly known as Gnosis Safe, the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum. The Safe aims to provide all users with a convenient, yet secure way to manage their funds and interact with decentralized applications on Ethereum.
- Jan 2019 - April 2022 (3 years 4 months) : Project Lead at GNOSIS (self-custodial bank accounts to securely manage digital assets)
- Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months) : Advisor at self employed, consulting two-early blockchain companies on project marketing strategy and digital marketing execution.
- Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 1 months) : Marketing Manager at The Argon Group (The Argon Group is the world’s first investment bank focused exclusively on the emerging cryptocurrency and digital token-based capital market).
- April 2017 - August 2017 (5 months) : Organizing Committee and Head of investor at Tech Open Air responsible for all touch points with the participant category “investor”
- * Feb 2016 - Jun 2016 (5 months) : Product Manager at Jodel.
- Aug 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 1 month) : Global Product Platform Management at Bosch Switzerland.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
- Built up new product offering which is today used to manage over $100B worth of digital assets on Ethereum.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- DAOs, NFTs, community and governance
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- Safe has been quite a promising platform in the market for its unique “Multi-sig” abilities. Users can comfortably manage the community-owned assets with multi-signature. Multi-signatures are a predefined set of rules bundled in the form of smart contracts. “ For mainstream adoption of web3 we need to overcome the risks and limitations of private key accounts. Safe provides a critical public good as a compostable and use-case agnostic smart contract account that can control digital assets, data, and identities” said Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe.
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Safe is the safest standard of web3 and the most trusted web3 platform to manage digital assets for individuals and communities.
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Yes, Safe is one of the most popular digital asset management platforms for DAOs with over $90B worth of assets stored in self custody.
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- Yes, Users can use safe to:
- Vote on governance
- Delegate their token governance right
- Limit transaction spending
- Automate transaction
- Batch transaction
- Customize access transaction
- If you are a DAO or company, you can use Safe to automate monthly payroll
- Safe can be used to store NFTs
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Safe help improve Web3’s UX and accessibility through transaction batching (means combining multiple transactions into one rather than creating a new transaction for every Web3 interaction). This reduces total gas fee and saves time.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- The Safe is a multi-signature smart contract wallet that allows users to make a list of owner/signer accounts and a threshold number of signers required to confirm a transaction. Once the threshold of owner accounts have confirmed a transaction, the Safe transaction can be executed. Safe started as a prediction markets platform where people can trade information freely. The team behind Safe created Safe to secure funds for multiple participants. Today, it's the most popular multisig wallet smart contract on Ethereum.
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- Safe’s multi-signature functionality allows you to make list of owners and a threshold number of signers required to confirm a transaction. Once the threshold of owners accounts have confirmed a transaction, the Safe transaction can be executed.
- Safe can be use to interact with NFT market place
- Safe is deployed on Networks like
- Ethereum Mainnet (Etherscan)
- Ethereum Testnets : Rinkeby, Kovan, Ropsten, Gorli.
- Gnosis chain
- Artitrum
- Aurora
- Avalanche
- Binance smart chain
- Energy web chain
- Energy web chain Testnets: Volta
- Optimism
- Polygon
- Current and potential use cases.
- Governance, Web3 operations, Web3 projects relating to assets, DAO
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- To get started, open the link below on your browser. (I recommend using Google Chrome). - https://gnosis-safe.up/app/.
- Connect a wallet
- Create new safe
- Connect and select network
- Name safe
- Add owners/signers and specify how many of them can confirm transactions before it gets executed. For instance, I add five signers, but only three out of these five can execute a transaction.
- Review, confirm payment and that’s it your safe is created.
- Token economy. SAFE
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- In July 2022, Gnosis safe rebranded to Safe raised $100million from investors including 1kx, Coinbase Ventures, Tiger Global, Lightspeed and Digital Currency Group (CoinDesk's parent company).
- Thursday 18 August 2022, Safe announced plan to airdrop 50 million SAFE tokens to thousands of safe wallets to ensure the successful launch of its DAO.
- September 28, 2022, Safe launch its SafeDAO and Safe token. Along with the launch of SafeDAO, Safe tokens can now be claimed by the over 43,000 eligible Safe users who will act as stakeholders who can delegate their vote to specific DAO members or, as the DAO calls them, “Guardians.”
- 1day ago, a tweet was tweeted from the Safe official Twitter page
- Roadmap/future applications
- First called “Gnosis Multisig”, Gnosis Safe was built in 2017 so that the Gnosis team had a means of securely storing its own digital assets.
- The community vote to spin-off from Gnosis was approved in April 2022
- July 12, 2022, Gnosis Safe rebrand as Safe, Raises $100M.
- September 28, 2022, Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) announced the launch of its SafeDAO and Safe Token today.
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- “For mainstream adoption of Web3 we need to overcome the risks and limitations of private key accounts. Safe provides a critical public good as a compostable and use-case agnostic smart contract account that can control digital assets, data, and identities” said Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe.
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- Safe's aim is to provide custody for Web3 applications through its platform, which offers management of digital assets, data and identity for retail and institutional investors.
- According Lukas Schor, Safe give you complete self custody over your funds, there is no risk of bank giving you a hassle for running a crypto business and the smart contract that is deployed is completely trust less and in your control
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
Anything else?
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
- LinkedIn - https://ch.linkedin.com/in/lukas-schor
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/SchorLukas/status/1575048126708084736?s=20&t=Y7aVTnxW1eDAGYDS-5EZ-A
- Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/lukasschor/?hl=en
- Medium - https://schor.medium.com/building-the-internet-of-value-b9d7f069ede7
- Discord username - Lukas | Safe#5183
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.
- LinkedIn - https://ch.linkedin.com/in/lukas-schor
- Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/schorlukas
- https://cryptoslate.com/people/lukas-schor/
- https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/authors/lukas-schor/amp
- https://www.cypherhunter.com/en/p/lukas-schor/
- https://help.gnosis-safe.io/en/articles/3876456-what-is-gnosis-safe
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