Wallet dossier
Safe
Smart-account and multisig wallet ecosystem that originated at Gnosis and was rebranded from Gnosis Safe to Safe in 2022.
- Developer / company
- Safe Ecosystem Foundation / Safe
- Origin
- —
- Launch
- 2018
- Custody
- self_custody
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-14
Product family
Products
General-purpose smart account and multisig protocol introduced as Gnosis Safe.
Retail-focused Gnosis Safe mobile wallet launched in 2018 and later discontinued after minimal adoption.
Web interface lineage that followed the early retail mobile experiment and became the primary Gnosis Safe/Safe wallet interface.
Current Safe mobile wallet application.
Chronology
Lifecycle timeline
Gnosis Safe smart account introduced
Product: Safe Smart Account
Gnosis Safe was introduced in 2018 as a general-purpose smart account.
Retail-focused Gnosis Safe mobile wallet discontinued
Product: Gnosis Safe Mobile (legacy)
Safe later described the 2018 retail-focused mobile wallet as discontinued because of minimal adoption.
Gnosis Safe rebranded to Safe
The project rebranded from Gnosis Safe to Safe after spinning out from GnosisDAO; Safe states that the protocol, audited contracts, accounts, funds, and security model did not change.
Safe{Wallet} Web supply-chain compromise enabled targeted Bybit transaction manipulation
Product: Safe{Wallet} Web
A targeted compromise of a Safe{Wallet} developer workstation and Safe{Wallet} web-delivery infrastructure enabled malicious JavaScript to manipulate a Bybit Safe transaction on 2025-02-21. The manipulated transaction resulted in approximately $1.46 billion in assets leaving Bybit's affected Ethereum cold wallet.
Safe{Wallet} rebuilt infrastructure and rotated credentials after targeted compromise
Product: Safe{Wallet} Web
Safe reported that the Safe{Wallet} team fully rebuilt and reconfigured infrastructure, rotated all credentials, eliminated the identified attack vector, and restored Safe{Wallet} on Ethereum mainnet with a phased rollout and additional security measures.
Safe Labs launched the rebuilt Safe Mobile app
Product: Safe Mobile
Safe Labs launched a completely rebuilt Safe{Mobile} application for managing and signing Safe smart-account transactions on iOS and Android.
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