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Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) is a widely used smart-contract multisig wallet standard for securing and managing crypto assets with multiple signers.
Safe put its Safenet Aegis security network into production on Ethereum, Gnosis and Arbitrum, backed by about 7.4 million SAFE in rewards for 12 months. Fee income from paid transaction checks has a year to take over that payout.
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Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 lets transactions reject bad trade results, but only a floor set by someone other than the trade's builder protects users. What the proposal is worth to a trader depends on whether wallets and account providers write their own limits from prices the app does not control.
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Security firms traced about 1,783 wstETH, worth more than $6 million, out of a Base vault on Oct. 4 whose owner is an anonymous 3-of-7 Safe. With Base and Aave's core contracts not blamed, the loss lands on a custody setup whose seven signers no one has publicly identified.
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About $6 million in wstETH left an unidentified Base vault via a whitelist flaw a researcher had found the week before, Immunefi says. Roughly $31.7 million remains under seven unnamed Safe signers who, more than a day later, had not claimed the vault or announced a fix.
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Ethereum Foundation says EIP-7906, a check that could have reverted the $1.5 billion Bybit theft, will not ship before 2027. Its own post concedes the check cannot stop the stolen-key and social-engineering attacks behind most of 2026's losses.
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Greenfield Capital asked Switzerland's foundation watchdog to examine Safe's Zug foundation, whose board it says has at times had only two members. The early backer wants Stefan George replaced and independent directors added after months of talks failed.
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Two Safe multisigs lost up to $310K after an attacker impersonated a Safe to get past FlashLoopAdapter, an Aave leverage add-on the owners had enabled. Aave and Safe's core code held, so the loss fell on owners who let a module move funds without signatures.
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Four days after Circle opened Arc's public mainnet, a developer queried the chain's own RPC and found the node scaling native USDC a trillion times larger than the ERC-20 contract that reports the same balance.
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Carta's Q1 2023 medians put Series D 58% below a year earlier and seed down 14%. Portage's Stephanie Choo calls the last round's valuation close to irrelevant, and the negotiating has moved to deal terms.
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