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episode 544: Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lucas Schor
What started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many successes, which originated during the 2017 ICO mania, as a solution for managing the raised capital securely, via a multi-sig. Even back then, the multi-sig model was quickly adopted by the entire industry, as a gold standard for asset security. Smart accounts and ERC-4337 represent the next step towards mass-adoption, through achieving a Web2-like UX.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Lukas’ background and how Safe was founded
- Bitcoin vs. Ethereum multi-sigs
- Smart accounts & ERC-4337
- Safe’s design phylosohpy
- Safe CORE, SDK & API
- Safe wallet UX
- Expanding cross-chain support
- Safe account recovery
- OpSec
- Safe’s smart contract security
- Gnosis ecosystem evolution
Episode links:
- Lucas Schor on Twitter
- Safe on Twitter
- Gnosis DAO on Twitter
- Gnosis Chain on Twitter
- Gnosis Pay on Twitter
Sponsors:
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io
- Chorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.one
This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture.