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GnosisDAO Governance Summary ~ February 2026

February was a highly active month for GnosisDAO, with major decisions shaping the DAO's treasury, governance mechanisms, and technical future. The community successfully utilized its new Ranked Choice Voting system for the first time to officially select Noca as the DAO's new Treasury Management Service Provider (GIP-148). Governance also embraced innovation by passing a 9-month "Advisory Futarchy" pilot (GIP-145), integrating prediction markets directly into the Snapshot voting experience.

On the technical and community front, a major new discussion has ignited regarding a proposed R&D collaboration with Jordi Baylina to explore evolving Gnosis Chain into a natively integrated Ethereum L2. Finally, following a thorough community discussion regarding immutability and accountability, the successful hard fork to recover funds from the November Balancer v2 exploit has culminated in the official claim process for the affected wallets.

🏛️ Governance Highlights

🗳️ GIP-148: Selection of Treasury Management Service Provider - PASSED

Summary: Concluding the comprehensive RFP process, the DAO has officially selected Noca as its new Treasury Management Service Provider. Utilizing Ranked Choice Voting for the first time, Noctua secured the mandate with 54.57% of the final vote in the runoff. Noctua will now handle the core mandate (capped at USD 1.5M annually), including Gnosis Chain multi-currency liquidity, endowment management, governance participation, and comprehensive reporting, operating under a non-custodial preference.

Status: PASSED

📸 View Results on Snapshot

Update from Noca: Following the vote, the Noca team published a thank you post outlining their immediate next steps. Notably, they announced they are waiving all performance fees for Q1 2026 to focus entirely on building a strong foundation. Q1 priorities include consolidating SAFEs, simplifying legacy positions, deploying idle capital, and building a real-time public treasury dashboard.

🗳️ GIP-145: Should Gnosis DAO run a 9‑month advisory futarchy pilot? - PASSED

Summary: GnosisDAO is officially partnering with Futarchy Labs to test an "Advisory Futarchy" system. Using Gnosis’ own Conditional Token Framework (CTF), a widget will now appear on Snapshot proposals showing the estimated percentage impact of a proposal passing on the GNO token price. The DAO approved providing $100k USD in temporary liquidity (GNO + WETH) to bootstrap these prediction markets, which will be returned after the 9-month pilot.

Status: PASSED

📸 View Results on Snapshot

🏛️ Active & Discussing Proposals

📸 Voting Now (Snapshot)

🗳️ GIP-149: Should Gnosis DAO fund continued support of Revoke.cash?

Summary: Seeking a $20,000 grant to fund infrastructure, maintenance, and continued development of Revoke.cash. This public good protects Web3 users from wallet-draining approval exploits and has supported Gnosis Chain since 2021 (serving ~1,000 monthly active users and preventing an estimated $900k in potential losses on the network).

Status: Live on Snapshot (Ends March 5).

📸 Vote on Snapshot

🦉 Phase 2 Discussion (Forum)

No Phase 2 discussions are currently active on the forum.

📊 Discussions, Reports & Updates

🗣️ Discussion: The L2 Debate (Gnosis Chain Evolution)

Summary: A major discussion has opened regarding the future of Gnosis Chain. Gnosis core is exploring a 6-month R&D project alongside Jordi Baylina to conceptualize a new type of Ethereum L2. This architecture would offer "synchronous composability," allowing dApps to tap into shared Ethereum liquidity and security directly, shifting the ecosystem's focus from maintaining standalone infrastructure to building consumer-grade financial apps like Gnosis Pay.

💬 Join the L2 Debate

📝 Balancer Hack: Claim Process & Post-Mortem

Summary: Following the November 2025 Balancer v2 exploit, Gnosis validators executed a successful hard fork in late December to neutralize the attacker's key and secure the stolen assets under DAO control. This decision sparked one of the deepest governance debates in the network's history regarding immutability versus accountability. With the hard fork complete, the DAO is now facilitating the return of funds to the affected wallets.

Action: A CSV of affected addresses is available for community review before the official claim page goes live. Furthermore, work is actively underway to define a strict, default-to-no-intervention security framework for any future incidents.

Read the Full Post & Review Claim List

📢 Action Needed

  1. Vote on GIP-149: Cast your Snapshot vote for the Revoke.cash funding proposal before the March 5th deadline.
  2. Join the L2 Debate: The potential evolution of Gnosis Chain into a natively integrated Ethereum L2 is one of the biggest architectural discussions in the DAO's history. Make your voice heard on the forum.
  3. Review the Balancer CSV: If you were an LP in the affected Balancer pools during the November exploit, please review the address list linked in the forum post to ensure your recovery amount is accurate.

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