GnosisDAO Community Summary ~ April 2026
Issue #1 (new cadence). After a break in March, the previous weekly Ghost summaries are now consolidated here.
The monthly newsletter of Gnosis Ecosystem. GIPs, Snapshot votes, forum debates, GNO tokenomics, and ecosystem moves. Written for holders, delegates, and partners.
The Brief - April 2026
- NOCA shipped the public treasury dashboard at gno.now and disclosed Q1 buybacks at $125.75 VWAP across 12,597 GNO. Any holder can now run their own NAV math at any point.
- Gnosis Chain put up its strongest activity print of the cycle: ~16.3M transactions across March and April (+28% MoM), Safe smart accounts outgrowing EOAs roughly 2-to-1, and 140,000+ validators earning ~8.54% APY in GNO post Fusaka.
- The Ethereum Economic Zone went public at EthCC. Gnosis & Zisk are leading the development with co-funding from the Ethereum Foundation with a range of projects supporting the initiative as early execution-standard supporters.
- The first GIP-128 quarterly report drew the sharpest delegate scrutiny of any funding milestone to date, with calls for a cost-cutting plan by end of May.
- No GIPs went to Snapshot, but Phase 1 activity includes GIP-150, a treasury-redemption proposal in early discussion.
- The first Gnosis Ecosystem event will happen Thursday 14th of May. Sign up on Luma to add to your calendar and hear about future events.
🦉 Forming up on the Forum
NOCA: Treasury operations are now legible in real time.
Treasury operations are now legible in real time. NOCA shipped gno.now as the primary Q1 deliverable, exposing composition and NAV inputs continuously. Q1 disclosed activity: 12,597 GNO bought back at $125.75 VWAP, only 0.75% of capital deployed above the $146 NAV reference. The update also disclosed a 600 ETH loan to TheDAO’s security fund, and ongoing OPSEC tightening via Safe consolidation and hardened signing devices.
NOCA Update
Where does Gnosis Chain sit if it joins EEZ?
The Ethereum Economic Zone was publicly introduced at EthCC as a synchronously composable L2 framework, co-developed by Gnosis and ZisK and co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation. Many partners from across the Ethereum ecosystem signed on as early execution-standard supporters. Forum follow-up has run hot on one operational question: would xDAI remain the gas token if Gnosis Chain joins EEZ?
EEZ overview on Bankless
Should GIP-128 carry a cost-cutting plan by end of May?
The recent GIP-128 quarterly report under the $30M/year mandate covered Pay v2, progress with Gnosis App and the EEZ reveal at EthCC alongside Q1 hires. The forensic responses came fast with a question about whether direct buybacks would have produced a more visible outcome with some decline in Pay's metrics questioned. Gnosis Ltd's reply - that buybacks and product investment work on different time horizons - escalated into public calls for a cost-cutting plan by end of May.
GIP-128 Q1 progress report
Validators update to Fusaka.
Gnosis Chain validators activated the Fusaka hard fork on 14 April at Epoch 1714688 - a network upgrade independent of any DAO action. Activation saw ~6% participation drop from un-updated nodes; but participation has now normalised. The chain now reports 140,000+ active validators. Glamsterdam is next on the roadmap.
Fusaka hard fork announcement
📊 Product & Ecosystem
Gnosis Pay. Pay v2 in testing unlocking major partnership; 21 new jurisdictions added in Q1. (Pay is wholesale; consumer card features live in Gnosis App.)
Gnosis App. Circles-first pivot landed: redesigned onboarding, referral invites, in-app Trust Score, and the G NFT for contributor cash back.
Business and Ramp. Business at ~$1B in trailing 12-month volume. Ramp launched in beta in March across the EU, US, Argentina, and Brazil.
Circles. SDK shipped a breaking release with cursor-based pagination and server-side trust computation. Circles active minters went from ~3300 to ~4100, a ~24% increase from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026.
Chain. Activity stepped up across March and April.
- ~16.3M successful transactions; April averaged ~300k tx/day (+28% over March).
- Real Value Locked rose +11.1% to ~$294M.
- Smart-account growth outpaced EOAs roughly 2-to-1, pushing cumulative Safes to 578,714 - a composition no other major L1 carries.
- The validator set held at 145,000+ at ~8.54% APY in GNO.
- EURe reached $23.1M on Gnosis, the largest single-chain euro-stable footprint.
💬 Community
First GnosisDAO Community Event: Thursday 14th May, 2pm UTC, Discord. Recurring monthly session for GIP ideation, updates from funded teams, and ecosystem partner spotlights. First session features Futarchy.fi (re GIP-145), GhostAgent.Ninja on the Regulated Agent Mandate, ENVIO on its work with Pay and App, and an EEZ overview. With space for more to join. Sign up: https://luma.com/3eoaor9k
DAO Docs and Forum refresh: live in May. A single source of truth for ecosystem information, governance onboarding, process overview, and treasury. Introducing a moderation policy to ensure GIPs comply with the Participation Agreement (GIP-10). Alongside simplified forum navigation.
Dappcon 2026: 16-17 June, Berlin. Dappcon is the leading summit for applications & infrastructure for an open internet. Hosted by Gnosis, it unites the brightest minds in blockchain to exchange insights, forge connections, and propel the evolution of decentralized applications. Tickets are also available in the Gnosis App marketplace for 10000 CRC, a 50% discount.