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GnosisDAO Governance Summary ~ 15 September 2023

DappCon23 Review

Safe kicked the week off with their inaugural conference, Safe{CON} focused on accelerating the transition to smart accounts. Gnosis Core Dev, Philippe Schommers gave a talk about the future of Gnosis Chain. Gnosis Co-Founder, Stefan George sat on a panel to discuss the challenges of account abstraction. The day long event primed everyones appetite for the entree of the week ~ DappCon 2023.

This year the theme of usability and adoption figured center stage. If web3 is to onboard the next billion, user experience needs to be a top priority. Stand out presentations from Gnosis Pay and Monerium hit on the theme with talks about the disruptive web3 stack poised to refigure how we transact with each other. Gnosis Pay is certified by Visa to be accepted by 80+ million merchants worldwide, bringing your digital assets into the traditional economy.

Monerium's EURe is a euro e-money token that is recognized as a digital alternative to cash. It is backed one-to-one and redeemable on demand. EURe is an ERC20 token compatible with the Ethereum, Polygon, and Gnosis networks. EURe even comes with an IBAN, Europe’s equivalent of a SWIFT code. Powered by Gnosis Pay and a Safe wallet connected to an IBAN, users can seamlessly go from offchain fiat in the bank system, to onchain fiat with the EURe on Gnosis Chain with incredibly competitive fees.

To learn more about the Gnosis Pay and Monerium stack, check out a recent article from Decrypt and sign up for a Gnosis Card today!

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The theme of usability also touched on the importance of building tools that have impact. Throughout the week, DappCon participants spoke about web3 as an opportunity to create principled technology that puts people first. Gnosis Co-Founder, Martin Koeppelmann emphasized the theme with his talk about CirclesUBI, a blockchain-based technology providing digital Universal Basic Income.

Gnosis also gave a talk about Hashi and the future of bridges on Gnosis Chain. Hashi is an EVM Hash Oracle Aggregator, designed to facilitate a principled approach to cross-chain bridge security. Along with the newly integrated zk light client on Gnosis Chain's Omnibridge, Hashi brings critical innovations to bridge security.

Lead Core Developer, Dapplion talked about turning Gnosis Chain into a Layer 2 to increase the security of the network.

Gnosis is building, doing what it does best. The rest of the conference featured talks from teams and developers creating the future of the internet. It was a humbling experience to be surrounded by so many incredibly talented professionals from the Ethereum ecosystem. Thank you to all of the attendees and participants who made DappCon 2023 such a massive success!

🦉Gnosis Forum🦉

GIP-89: Should GnosisDAO support an annual renewal for Blockscout SLA and hosting services?

Blockscout continues to serve the Gnosis ecosystem with an open-source explorer for both the Gnosis mainnet and Chiado testnet instances. Blockscout hosting was originally funded in GIP 54 for mainnet and GIP 71 for the Chiado testnet.

Funding & Disbursement

Hosting costs cover high-capacity bandwidth, infrastructure upgrades, data storage (2000GiB and growing), and devops for the networks. Feature enhancements and priority support are also included as part of the package.

Over the past year we have analyzed instance usage and optimized our backend infrastructure and processes, and are happy to offer a discount on pricing for the instances ($500 less per month relative to 2022 pricing). Chiado testnet pricing is scoped as a 2nd instance, resulting in a lower cost.

Gnosis Chain Mainnet: $112,000.00

  • $8,000 per month for 14 months (August and September 2023 + 1 year of service 1 October, 2023 - 1 October, 2024)

Chiado Testnet: $40,000

  • $4,000 per month for 10 months (credit of October and November 2023 + 1 year of service 1 October, 2023 - 1 October, 2024)
  • Total cost: $152,000.00 due 1 October, 2023

Amount is requested up front for the year. Payment can be made to Blockscout’s SAFE 0xAddress on Ethereum mainnet (0x242ba6d68FfEb4a098B591B32d370F973FF882B7) with USDC or USDT.

Karpatkey Delegate Platform

karpatkey was born from and has been an active contributor to the GnosisDAO ecosystem, and we would like to present ourselves to the community as a trusted delegate. We have created this thread to share more about karpatkey, how we vote, why you should delegate your GNO to us, what we stand for, and how to do it.

Deposit DAI of the xDAI bridge in sDAI vault from Spark

This post is to resume the discussion and inform the community we are going to deposit most of the DAI in the xDAI bridge into the sDAI vault from Spark Protocol on Mainnet, which is an ERC-4626 vault depositing all DAI into the Maker DAI Savings Rate (DSR).

🙏 Thank you

Come say hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord. Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on Thursday October 12th, 2023 at 3PM UTC / 5PM CET on the GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces.

See you onchain!

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