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Category Treasury · custody O… Zodiac / SafeSnap (/wiki/daos/tooling/frameworks/zodiac) for governance execut… Related SafeDAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/organizations/infrastructure/safe-dao) , Snapshot (/wiki/daos/tooling/voting/snapshot) , What is a DAO? (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/what-is-a-dao) , Exit rights (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) , Juicebox (/wiki/daos/tooling/treasury/juicebox)

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Category Treasury · custody O…pts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) , Juicebox (/wiki/dao/tooling/juicebox)

Category Treasury · custody Origin Gnosis Multisig (2017) → Gnosis Safe (2018) → rebranded Safe (2022) What it does m-of-n smart-contract wallet: funds move only when a threshold of signers approves Scale The default DAO treasury; secures assets across 30+ EVM networks Extensible via Modules & guards — e.g. Zodiac / SafeSnap (https://github.com/gnosisguild/zodiac) for governance execution Site safe.global (https://safe.global/) · docs (https://docs.safe.global/) Related Snapshot (/wiki/dao/tooling/snapshot) , What is a DAO? (/wiki/dao/concepts/what-is-a-dao) , Exit rights (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights)

Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) is the smart-contract wallet that holds the money for most of the DAO world. It is a multisignature account: instead of one private key, a Safe is controlled by a set of signers and a threshold — an “m-of-n” rule such as 4-of-7 — so no single person can move funds, and a transaction executes only once enough signers approve it on-chain. First shipped as Gnosis Multisig in 2017, rewritten as Gnosis Safe in 2018 and rebranded to Safe in 2022 (https://safe.global/) , it has become the base custody layer for DAO (/wiki/dao/concepts/what-is-a-dao) treasuries. ( Safe docs (https://docs.safe.global/) ) How a Safe works A Safe is deployed as its own contract account with an owner list and a confirmation threshold. To spend from the treasury, an owner proposes a transaction; other owners add their signatures; once the threshold is met the Safe contract executes it atomically. Ownership, threshold and the queued transactions are all on-chain and publicly inspectable, which is why a DAO can hold a nine-figure treasury in a Safe and have every member verify exactly who can authorize a spend. ( what is Safe (https://docs.safe.global/home/what-is-safe) ) Modules, guards and governance execution Safe is deliberately minimal at its core and extended through modules (which can trigger transactions under custom rules) and guards (which add pre-execution checks). This is the seam where custody meets governance: Zodiac (https://github.com/gnosisguild/zodiac) and its SafeSnap/oSnap module let a passed Snapshot (/wiki/dao/tooling/snapshot) vote execute against the Safe under an optimistic challenge window, turning an off-chain signal into a binding treasury action without handing the keys to a single party. Most DAO payments, streaming and analytics tools build directly on the Safe account model. ( Safe modules (https://docs.safe.global/advanced/smart-account-modules) ) Why DAOs standardize on it A treasury is a DAO's most valuable and most attacked asset, and Safe hit the pragmatic sweet spot: fully self-custodial and on-chain, but simpler and cheaper to run than a bespoke on-chain governor for a small or early organization. Its ubiquity is self-reinforcing — because nearly every treasury tool integrates Safe, new DAOs adopt it by default, and it secures a large share of all EVM DeFi value. ( Messari: Safe (https://messari.io/project/safe) ) Trade-offs A multisig is a deliberate compromise. It buys speed, low cost and operational safety, but it concentrates power in the signer set: the treasury is only as decentralized as its m-of-n, and a colluding or compromised majority of signers is a real risk — which is why mature DAOs pair a Safe with on-chain governance (a Snapshot-plus-oSnap bridge or a full Governor) rather than letting a small council spend unchecked. How Caper approaches this Caper folds custody into the protocol instead of bolting on a separate multisig. A caper's treasury is a contract-controlled vault governed directly by member votes (/wiki/governance/voting) and executed on-chain (/wiki/governance/execution) , so there is no signer set to trust and no threshold to capture. It also adds a property a Safe does not have: members can exit (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) and redeem their pro-rata share of that treasury, so custody and exit are governed by the same rules rather than by a council's discretion. References - Safe, Documentation (https://docs.safe.global/) and safe.global (https://safe.global/) . - Safe, Zodiac module collection (https://github.com/gnosisguild/zodiac) (Gnosis Guild). - Messari, Safe project profile (https://messari.io/project/safe) .