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SafeLabs' Policy Engine for Safe Pro is coming soon: teams write treasury rules into their Safe account and a contract enforces them on every transaction — "a transaction outside policy will not execute, however many signers approve it." At @summit_defi, @Shebitweet from Safe Research demoed the engine's deny-by-default model — anything not explicitly allowed is blocked — with the code open source. Safe amplified the demo on X the following day, framing it as a policy engine for Safe smart accounts.

Planned at launch: recipient allowlists, spending limits, app allowlists, and time-delayed authority changes. The engine is in final testing, with design partners getting early testnet access and helping decide which templates ship first, per the intro post. Observer @rsquare framed the Policy Engine as one of two new onchain products from Safe — alongside Safenet.

At @summit_defi, @SeanMacAonghais introduced Safenet, Safe's decentralized security protocol for self-custody and institutional treasuries, explaining how independent checkers stake on every verdict about a transaction and the chain enforces the result before execution. Safe amplified the demo on X with the framing "put your money where your audit is," presenting the staking model as a scaling defence against AI-amplified attacks.

• Safenet runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Gnosis Chain, secured by $SAFE, with Sentinels verifying transactions and attesting verdicts onchain.
• The production-ready Aegis release is already live in Safe Wallet and Safe Pro.
• The stakes-verdict mechanism means checkers back their audits with capital, blocking execution for transactions that fail a security verification.

Safe highlighted Q3 onchain activity in which three institutional networks went live with Safe smart accounts: Robinhood Chain launched its new layer-1 on 1 July and saw roughly a quarter of a billion dollars in transfers within two weeks; ADIChain_ adopted smart accounts for institutional treasury use on 31 August; and Arc (Arc Finance) launched live from day one on 16 September. Safe reamplified its original roundup on X, noting that each network adopted Safe smart accounts in the same quarter.

At Ethereum Foundation's Devcon, SafeLabs CEO Richard Meissner (@rsquare) took the Lotus Stage to introduce onchain security markets designed to defend multisigs like Safe against offensive AI. In the model, human and AI defenders assess transaction risk, validators attest the outcome onchain, and a smart account guard enforces the result before execution. Sean MacAonghais presented the same product, Safenet, framing the innovation as onchain security markets.

Gnosis Chain announced it will become the first instance on the Ethereum Economic Zone, targeted for Spring 2027, and said it is issuing a Request for Protocols as part of the transition. SafeLabs amplified the announcement on X.

The Ethereum Economic Zone program is positioned around expanding Ethereum's economic footprint across aligned chains; Gnosis serving as the first instance marks a concrete near-term milestone for the effort.

Safe launched Safenet Aegis in October as the first production-ready, fee-generating release of Safenet, its decentralized security protocol for self-custody, secured by $SAFE. The network runs on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Gnosis Chain — users submit a transaction for a small fee (about 0.40 USDC per check at launch) and Sentinels verify it, with each verdict attested onchain and an optional Guard able to block execution without a security attestation. Safe announced the release on X, introducing Aegis as the production-ready milestone for the network.

• Safenet is live in Safe Wallet and Safe Pro — Safe Pro users can add Safenet checks before a transaction executes, verified by genesis Sentinels IntentGuard and OpenCover against the Safenet Charter, alongside BlockSecTeam and Candide Labs, each posting a bond with every verdict.
• With SEP-56 passed through Safe{DAO}, staking rewards are back — paid in $SAFE and stakeable directly in Safe{Wallet}. RockawayX and bcap are no longer active validators after the beta-to-Aegis transition, so stakers who delegated to them must re-delegate.
• Co-founder @tschubotz framed Aegis as an upgrade over single-point transaction checkers, and @rimeissner marked the launch and Safe{Wallet} integration as a major network milestone.

All Safe v1.5.0 contracts from the Changelog now carry Etherscan labels, announced by @adamshurwitz and amplified by Safe's official channel on X. Users can bookmark the contract links across all devices.

The label rollout follows the v1.5.0 recap, which marked the contract release as more than a month in production and highlighted the improved error messages and other changes shipped with the version.

• All v1.5.0 contracts from the Changelog are now labelled on Etherscan.
• The labels let users bookmark contract links across devices.

SafeLabs amplified observer @rsquare's take on the Binance security incident, the largest crypto hack on record with roughly $6.3B affected. Binance said its initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop allowed an attacker to reach a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions, with no evidence of any wallet private key leak.

@rsquare characterized the pattern — infrastructure compromise, unauthorized signature, account compromise, swept funds — as familiar, warning that "on the surface the attack will look simple and in hindsight things will seem obvious in terms of security." The retweet from Safe's account keeps Safe visible in the industry-wide fallout discussion over custody and treasury security following the breach.

ENS launched ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet, and Safe names are live at launch — SafeLabs congratulated ENS Labs on X, confirming Safe's integration is active. ENSv2 is ENS Labs' protocol upgrade extending the Ethereum Name Service to layer 2, redesigned from the ground up with independent subname registries and granular multi-party permissions.

• Safe is among 40+ teams that completed v2 integration, alongside MetaMask, Aragon, 1inch, and Arbitrum.
• The launch follows Safe's earlier confirmation that it would support ENSv2 at launch, pointing to ENS's isv2ready check.

SafeLabs announced that teams building on Morph Network can now run their treasuries on Safe, making Morph the platform's newest network integration. The announcement was paired with September usage numbers: 313,500 Safes were created, Optimism added 1,200 new Safes (up 20%) and its share of all Safe transactions rose from 6.9% to 9.1%, while Avalanche added 1,100 new Safes (up 221%).