The hard fork on Monday followed a majority of Gnosis validators adopting a soft fork in response to a November Balancer exploit, in which about $116 million in crypto was stolen.
Safe, formerly Gnosis Safe, has launched a subsidiary called Safe Labs to develop enterprise-grade self-custody solutions based on its smart contract wallet infrastructure.
Sebastian Bürgel, vice president of technology at Gnosis and founder of Hopr, argues that hyperfinancialization and profit-seeking are a threat to privacy and the crypto sector.