Safe Shifts Focus to Self-Custody Security, Open Sources Safenet
Safe Shifts Focus to Self-Custody Security, Open Sources Safenet
馃攼 Safenet Goes Open Source
Safe announces a strategic pivot, pausing development on unified balances and chain abstraction to concentrate on improving self-custody security fundamentals.
The team identified that users face excessive burdens in managing self-custody, including:
- Transaction verification
- Counterparty checks
- Policy management
To support continued development, Safe is open-sourcing the entire Safenet codebase under GPL license.
Resources:
Developers are invited to fork and contribute to the project while Safe focuses on strengthening security foundations.
Safenet update: We're pausing development on unified balances & chain abstraction to focus our resources on moving security of self-custody forward. The current burden on users for self-custody security is too high. Users handle transaction verification, counterparty checks, and
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