Samuel Akpan & Safe
The Safe Foundation and JOIN have entered into a five-year token-based investment agreement, marking the second collaboration in Safe's 5M SAFE Ecosystem Alignment Program following the partnership with Worldcoin. The program creates genuine, bilateral economic exposure with ecosystem leaders building the infrastructure for self-custody's future through standardized, non-exclusive agreements. This alignment with JOIN speaks to a shared conviction: that the future of digital ownership depends not just on custody infrastructure, but on intuitive coordination tools that empower people to hold, move and act with onchain assets confidently.
Aligning for seamless onchain coordination
JOIN has built its treasury operating system infrastructure backed by Safe, designed to simplify crypto and self-custody for both organizations and individual users. It empowers teams, communities, and retail users to manage decisions, proposals, treasury activity, and personal finances entirely onchain, with non-custodial control, multi-chain access, gas-flexible transactions, and fiat on/off-ramping.
JOIN's infrastructure leverages Safe's battle-tested smart accounts as the multi-signature foundation for account abstraction across EVM chains. Transaction simulation detects malicious behavior before execution, and automatic approval revocation after swaps eliminates residual permission risk. JOIN also leverages Zodiac Roles and plans to be among the first to integrate Safe's Policy Engine, enabling fine-grained approval workflows that balance operational efficiency with security across transaction types.
By aligning economically and strategically, Safe and JOIN make a long-term commitment to the infrastructure and coordination layer that makes self-custody usable at scale. Lowering friction in how users manage assets, how teams coordinate decision-making, and how wallets operate across chains will unlock broader adoption of self-custody.
Shared success over five years
As JOIN enables more people to self-custody with ease, Safe stands behind the infrastructure. As Safe's smart accounts become more ubiquitous, JOIN offers a gateway for people and organizations to use them seamlessly. For users, that means easier entry into self-custody and more choices in how wallets, assets and coordination tools fit together. For builders, it means aligned incentives and lower friction for orchestrating onchain workflows.
Learn more about JOIN’s coordination stack and how it connects with Safe:
Safe Foundation launches Ecosystem Alignment Program, allocating up to 5M SAFE to scale infrastructure
The Safe Ecosystem Foundation is committing up to 5,000,000 SAFE to accelerate the infrastructure that powers secure, easy self-custody across the onchain economy. Through multi-year token swaps and equity investments, the Safe Foundation is creating genuine, bilateral economic exposure with ecosystem leaders.
The program operates through standardized, non-exclusive agreements designed to foster open collaboration rather than closed ecosystems. As self-custody infrastructure matures from experimental to essential, the Safe Foundation ensures it is economically positioned alongside the teams making that transition possible.
About Safe
Safe (previously Gnosis Safe) is an onchain asset custody protocol, securing ~$60 Billion in assets today. Released as on open-source software stack by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, it is establishing a universal ‘smart account standard for secure custody of digital assets, data, and identity. Safe is built for the mission to unlock digital ownership for everyone in web3, including DAOs, enterprises, retail, and institutional users
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About the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, Zug, Switzerland
The mission of the Safe Ecosystem Foundation is to support the development of Safe, to strengthen Safe technology and to promote the Safe Ecosystem. The Safe Ecosystem is a non-profit organisation based in Zug, Switzerland, that helps educate people about Safe smart accounts and promotes Safe technology through the provision of grants and other forms of funding.
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