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QUARTERLY REPORT

Second Quarter 2026

July 29, 2026

*/ Q2 2026 at a glance

Safe smart accounts (“Safe”) recorded its second consecutive quarterly transaction high, processing nearly 130 million transactions as monthly active accounts reached 2.73 million in June. The quarter also marked the launch of Safenet Beta, with 54.8 million SAFE token (“SAFE”) staked across 539 stakers.

Read the Q2 2026 announcement
Safenet transaction checks
456K
transactions checked
Since April 2
SAFE staked
54.8M
SAFE
539 staker addresses
Quarterly transactions
130M
transactions
+5.7% QoQ
Transfer volume
$39.35B
all chains
+8% YoY
Letter

For most of crypto's history, security depended on a small number of people paying very close attention: teams reviewing code, signers checking addresses, protocols watching dashboards, and multisigs approving transactions they believed they understood.

That model carried the industry far. But it is no longer enough.

The same AI systems that help teams understand complex systems faster also give attackers new reach. They can analyze codebases, transaction histories, interfaces, and social context at a scale no human team can match by watching screens. Security can no longer only mean reacting well after something has gone wrong. It has to move closer to the moment where value moves.

That is the idea behind Safenet.

In April 2026, Safe Ecosystem Foundation launched Safenet Beta, a network built to bring transaction checks and enforcement onchain. The launch came as Q2 recorded more reported crypto security incidents than any previous quarter: 83 incidents and an estimated $755 million stolen.

Six genesis validators run Safenet in beta, with 54.8 million SAFE staked behind a network built to bring transaction checks and enforcement onchain.

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Six genesis validators operate the network, with 54.8 million SAFE staked across 539 stakers. SafeDAO approved 5 million SAFE in funding through SEP-55, and by quarter-end the network had processed 455,646 transaction checks.

The broader Safe ecosystem also recorded its strongest quarter to date.

April was the busiest month in Safe's history, with 55.4 million transactions. During the quarter, Safe processed nearly 130 million transactions, surpassing the Q1 record. Monthly active Safe accounts increased each month, reaching 2.73 million in June. By quarter-end, over 63 million Safe accounts had been created, a 20 percent year-over-year increase.

This activity held up even as crypto prices fell sharply in June. Active accounts continued to rise, and the value transferred through Safe accounts on Ethereum, expressed in ETH, reached its quarterly high.

April was the busiest month in Safe's history. The quarter closed at nearly 130 million transactions, turning Q1's record into the new baseline.

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Safe has become essential account infrastructure for crypto. Consumer applications use Safe to give millions of people programmable accounts without adding friction. Protocols and institutions use it to manage capital without giving up control. During emergencies, Safe gives large groups a trusted way to coordinate quickly.

We saw that clearly after April's Kelp DAO exploit. Through DeFi United, more than 142,000 wallets participated in an Aave-led effort that coordinated approximately $300 million through Safe smart accounts to help restore rsETH's backing.

Safe was created so that individuals, teams and institutions could hold and transfer digital assets without relinquishing control. That purpose has not changed. What is changing is the scale of the challenge.

In ETH terms, the value transacted through Safe accounts reached a quarterly high.

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As more value moves onchain, users need more than secure ownership. They need to understand what a transaction will do, coordinate around shared assets and stop dangerous actions before value leaves an account.

Safe is evolving from infrastructure that safeguards value into a network that can also help verify how value moves.

There remains much to build.

Lukas Schor
Co-Founder, Safe · President, Safe Ecosystem Foundation

Milestones

Apr 2026

Safenet Beta went live

Safe Ecosystem Foundation launched Safe's security network on April 2 at EthCC Cannes. Six genesis validators now operate the beta, with 54.8 million SAFE staked across 539 staker addresses and 455,646 transaction checks completed since launch.

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Apr 2026

Safe set a second consecutive quarterly record

April became the busiest month in Safe's history with 55.4 million transactions. Q2 closed at nearly 130 million, 5.7 percent above the record set in Q1.

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Apr 2026

DeFi United coordinated through Safe

In three weeks, more than 142,000 wallets participated through a single Safe as the Aave-led coalition coordinated approximately $300 million to help restore rsETH's backing.

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Protocol Metrics

Safenet Beta

The defence protocol for self-custody. A resilient network secured by the SAFE token, built to bring wallet transaction security onchain, even if you sign by mistake.

54.8M

SAFE staked

up from 50.4M at the April close

99.9%

Validator participation

across Safenet Beta validators

5M SAFE

SafeDAO funding

SEP-55, passed at 3x quorum

Transactions Checked

456K

Apr+193K
May+150K
Jun+113K

Cumulative since the April 2 launch. Exactly 455,646 at the June 30 close.

Checks by chain

Ethereum and Arbitrum carried roughly 94% of Q2 checks.

Participating Staker Addresses

539

Apr+217
May+218
Jun+104

Cumulative since the April 2 launch.

Genesis validators · each staking at least 3.5M SAFEGnosisGreenfieldRockawayXBlockchain CapitalCore ContributorsSafe Labs

Safe in Context

Safe is the infrastructure that much of DeFi runs on.

The Invisible Engine of Onchain Coordination

Blockchains made it possible to transfer value, but it took Safe to make it possible to coordinate it. Before 2017, the ecosystem lacked a secure, programmable way for groups to jointly manage digital assets. What began as a way for Gnosis to manage its own treasury became a programmable smart account used by teams, protocols, institutions and communities around the world. Safe now sits quietly beneath much of the coordination that happens onchain.

When protocols, institutions, or spontaneous global coalitions need to secure, govern, and deploy billions of dollars, they don't build new plumbing. They deploy a Safe.

Crypto Relief 2021 · Approx. $430M
Routed roughly $430M for India's COVID crisis, with Vitalik Buterin's donation the breakthrough moment.

SecurityHumanitarianPublic goods

Safe Project Revenue

Capital Stewardship

Foundation Treasury

The treasury delivered a portfolio APY of 5.5 to 5.75 percent in Q2, approximately 250 basis points above the 3.2 to 3.6 percent comparison benchmarks. The program, managed by Hecate Ventures AG, prioritizes principal protection and diversification.

Benchmark Context

5.5–5.75%Portfolio APY in Q2, ~250bps above benchmarks

As of June 30, 2026.

Deployed

~$14M

as of June 30, 2026

Active Positions

14

across DeFi and fixed-income strategies

May

First real-world-asset position

Hecate Ventures opened its first real-world-asset (RWA) position and a position in a KYC'd, permissioned lending vault, extending the portfolio into tokenized credit while maintaining its audited-protocol and counterparty standards.

Jun

Fixed-income mandate opened

Opened the first position under the new fixed-income mandate, broadening diversification beyond onchain yield venues.

Across Our Teams

The Safe Ecosystem Foundation's program of long-term, bilateral SAFE token swaps with teams building durable self-custody infrastructure reached its third partnership in Q2: a five-year swap with Velvet, announced in mid-May, following World and JOIN. The program sets a commercial template for aligning Safe with the builders extending its reach, at ecosystem scale rather than one deal at a time.

PR & Ecosystem

Ecosystem
Velvet CapitalVelvet entered a five-year SAFE token swap with the Safe Ecosystem Foundation in May, detailed in Across Our Teams.
World App 3.0World relaunched its super app in April for its tens of millions of users, with user wallets powered by Safe smart accounts.
SafeDAO (SEP-55)SafeDAO passed SEP-55, funding Safenet Beta with 5 million SAFE.
All ecosystem activity (13 more)
Safenet staking interface operatorsSix teams (CoBuilders, Chainza, BootNode, Protofire, Eternal Safe, and Core Contributors) were selected from ten submissions to build independent Safenet staking interfaces.
DeFi UnitedThe Aave-led coalition behind April's rsETH restoration, covered in Quarter Milestones, coordinated through a single Safe (onchain verified).
Gnosis ChainGnosis Chain reported 578,714 cumulative Safes by its April summary, with smart accounts outpacing externally owned accounts roughly two to one.
Ethereum FoundationThe Ethereum Foundation executed onchain treasury sales directly from its Safe multisig in April and May, funding protocol research, grants, and ecosystem development.
Safe Labs editorialSafe Labs published security and education writing in May, including “The Multi-Currency Mandate.”
FilecoinFilecoin moved multi-party approvals for its Onchain Cloud infrastructure onto Safe multisig, using Safe to govern updates to core protocol frontends.
LitVMLitVM brought full Safe multisig to the Litecoin EVM in April, deployed by long-time Safe partner Protofire, so treasuries and DAOs on the new stack have Safe from day one.
BlockscoutBlockscout added Safe as a first-class component of Avalanche's official L1 deployment toolkit, so new Avalanche L1s ship with Safe multisig support out of the box.
BankrBankr and the Base community built treasury automation on Safe modules in May, where owners approve a module once and an agent then acts on its own within preset limits.
MultichainZMultichainZ launched an AI Agent Studio for DAOs in May, running scoped agents on Safe accounts for gasless, omnichain yield across protocols.
FordefiFordefi added Safe-initiated approvals with fully decoded intent in June, so signers see exactly what a transaction will do before they confirm it.
Root EdgeRoot Edge streamed over 9 billion units of LPUSD through Superfluid into a Safe multisig in June, locked for twelve months.
DappCon BerlinAt Berlin Blockchain Week in June, Safe co-founder Richard Meissner spoke at DappCon on onchain security in an era of AI-scaled attacks, and Safe Labs CEO Rahul Rumalla on continuous assurance for onchain teams beyond multisig. Safe also co-hosted a Safenet security breakfast with the Ethereum Foundation's security team and a multisig signing ceremony with Candide Labs.

Looking Ahead

Q3 2026 Outlook

Q2 moved several long-term efforts from early proof toward production. Q3 priorities focus on bringing those systems closer to users.

Priority 01

Safenet: from observation to enforcement

Safenet's Q3 priorities include audited onchain enforcement, integration with Safe{Wallet}, and new checks designed to detect recipient and address manipulation. Work will also continue on the network's long-term economic model for validators and stakers.

Read the Safenet Beta Q2 progress review ->

Priority 02

Connecting security with everyday account operations

Safe Labs and Safe Research plan to connect Enterprise Workspace and Security Hub with onchain policies, spend limits and transaction controls. The goal is to bring security checks directly into the workflows teams use to manage assets.

Priority 03

Broadening staking access

Building on the first set of interface operators, the Safe Ecosystem Foundation is exploring how to make Safenet staking accessible through the platforms people already use, without requiring a technical workflow.

Priority 04

Treasury

The Foundation Treasury program will continue to expand across asset classes and diversify its structured-product and execution strategies beyond SAFE and stablecoin exposure.

Disclaimer

This quarterly report has been prepared by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities, tokens, or financial instruments.

Forward-looking statements in this report, including projections about protocol growth, revenue, partnerships, and product development, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Cryptocurrency and digital asset markets are highly volatile, and past performance does not guarantee future results.

The SAFE token is a governance and network security token. This report does not constitute a prospectus, offering document, or financial promotion of any kind. Recipients are advised to seek independent professional advice as appropriate.