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GnosisDAO Community Summary ~ July 2026

The monthly newsletter of the Gnosis Ecosystem. GIPs, Snapshot votes, forum debates, GNO tokenomics, and ecosystem moves. Written for holders, delegates, and partners. Issue #4.

At a glance

  • GIP-154 landed on 31 July: Gnosis Ltd asks the DAO for $15m in stablecoins over 12 months from 1 September, exactly half of last year's $30m ask under GIP-128, plus a separate $2m repayable working capital loan for Gnosis Pay.
  • GIP-153 asks whether Gnosis Chain should transition into the Ethereum Economic Zone, becoming synchronously composable with Ethereum mainnet rather than a sovereign L1. 20 posts, sharply divided, still Phase 1.
  • GIP-152 asks the DAO to fund spinning the Gnosis App out into an independent company. Filed as Phase 2, 20 posts, and the most critical thread of the month. A non-binding forum poll closed on 30 July. No Snapshot vote has been called.
  • Gnosis presented synchronous composability work for the EEZ at Pragma Lisbon on 25 July, and Gnosis Ltd held its Q2 2026 AMA late in the month.
  • GnosisScan is deprecated on 11 August at 23:59 UTC, with the domain redirecting to Blockscout. Audit any hardcoded URLs before the cutover.

🦉 Forming Up on the Forum

Should the DAO fund Gnosis Ltd with $15m a year?

Filed on 31 July by Friederike Ernst, GIP-154 is the successor to GIP-128, which ran at $30M/year. The ask is $15M in stablecoins for a 12-month period starting 1 September, disbursed quarterly, plus a separate $2M loan for Gnosis Pay.

Should Gnosis Chain transition into the Ethereum Economic Zone?

GIP-153 moved to Phase 2 on 29 July. The EEZ framework — co-developed by Gnosis and ZisK with Ethereum Foundation co-funding — proposes that Gnosis Chain operate as a synchronously composable L2 within an Ethereum-aligned zone, rather than continuing as a sovereign proof-of-stake L1. The practical consequence most discussed in the thread: the current validator set (roughly 52,000 active validators, down from ~76,000 a month earlier) would not carry forward in its current form, since the EEZ architecture moves block production to a centralised sequencer with forced-inclusion escape hatches rather than distributed proof-of-stake. 

Should the Gnosis App spin out into its own company?

The most contentious thread of the month. Authored by deep45shah, GIP-152 proposes that GnosisDAO fund a spinout of the Gnosis App consumer product at a $15M post-money cap, with $3M deployed upfront.

Also on the forum

📊 Gnosis VPN had a busy July.

One thing to know up front: Gnosis VPN is not a Gnosis Ltd product and sits outside that budget. It is funded directly by GnosisDAO under GIP-122 and run by a separate entity set, a point the VPN committee reiterated in its response to GIP-153 in July.

The headline engineering change is architectural. The client moved off kernel-level WireGuard to NepTun, a user-space implementation that sends packets straight from the tunnel interface into a HOPR Session. The rest of the month went into reliability: health checks now tell packet loss apart from network saturation, which ends false-positive reconnects during heavy downloads and roughly doubles the download ceiling, and path planning now always prefers low-latency routes through HOPR. A public beta for testers is coming soon, so keep an eye on the VPN channels if you want in.

🔐 What GIP-153 means for validators.

Gnosis Chain currently runs on roughly 52,000 active validators, down from around 76,000 a month earlier, with about 295,000 GNO staked. GIP-153 puts that set directly in question: if the EEZ transition proceeds, proof-of-stake consensus as it exists today would not carry forward, and GNO's role as the staking asset would change in form.

What that means in practice is not yet written down. The proposal does not specify staking mechanics under an EEZ architecture, and that is the biggest open question for validator economics heading into Q3. If you run validators or stake GNO, the GIP-153 thread is the place to be.

💬 Community

Q2 2026 AMA. Gnosis Ltd held its quarterly AMA in late July, covering Pay, Circles, Chain, EEZ, and the App spin-out proposal: https://www.youtube.com/live/FvoWrA1O9ZA

Revised Documentation & Forum. We've reworked the DAO documentation and forum to keep Gnosis ecosystem information open to everyone and make the forum easier to use: https://docs.gnosis.io/

Ecosystem Sessions. The next session runs at 2pm UTC on Aug 13th: governance, builder demos, and networking. https://luma.com/3eoaor9k

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