⚔️ 🦉 Gnosis Chain Weekly · 21 July 2023
Gnosis Pay

This week Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann announced the launch of Gnosis Pay and the release of the Gnosis Card at EthCC, generating a huge buzz.
Gnosis Pay is the first decentralized payment network allowing web3 developers to integrate with a range of traditional payment schemes including Visa. Gnosis Pay allows users to spend their digital assets anywhere Visa is accepted with the same quick, seamless transactions they expect from a traditional debit card. Gnosis Card is the world’s first officially Visa-certified self-custodied consumer debit card directly connected to an onchain wallet instead of a traditional bank account, built on the Gnosis Pay decentralized payment network.
Check out Martin's talk at EthCC where he delves into the specifics of Gnosis Pay and walks through a live demo of the Gnosis Card.
Register for a card here.
Gnosis Pay hits top-tier news outlets across mainstream tech and crypto!
- TechCrunch - Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong
- Decrypt - Crypto Wallet Provider Gnosis Launches Self-Custodial Debit Card
- CoinDesk - Gnosis Lets Crypto Users Make Everyday Purchases From Wallets With Visa
- Cointime - Gnosis Launches Self-Custodial Debit Card Utilizing Decentralized Payment Network
- Tech Investor News - Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong
- TokenInsight - Gnosis Launches Decentralized Payment Network and Self-Custodial Debit Card
🦉 Updates
🚀 Shapella Client Updates
Node runners ~ all client updates are ready. Update your nodes today! The Shapella hard-fork is fast approaching on August 1st, 2023.
📣 Gnosis Chain Node Runners! 📣
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) July 6, 2023
Please schedule time between now and July 30th to update your nodes - it’s critical for ensuring the security of Gnosis Chain and a successful hard-fork!
The process can be completed within a few clicks.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/6MRH3jxy6q
👐🏽 Validator Meetup #8
Gnosis Chain core devs joined the Validator Meetup this week. The call focused on all things Shapella - from client updates, setting up withdrawal credentials and commonly asked questions. If you're a node runner, be sure to check out the recording if you missed the call!
🌉 Scheduled Bridge Downtown
With the Shapella hard-fork approaching on August 1st, 2023 we will have scheduled bridge downtime. Both OmniBridge and xDAI bridges will be paused before the fork and will resume operation after the hard-fork is completed. Total estimated downtime is 16 hours.
📣 Scheduled Bridge Downtime 📣
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) July 11, 2023
With Shapella hard-fork approaching on August 1st, 2023 we will have scheduled bridge downtime.
Both OmniBridge and xDAI bridges will be paused before the fork and will resume operation after the hard-fork is completed.
If any bridge related… pic.twitter.com/zasBxXR81A
🔥 Agave + EURe + Gnosis Card
Gnosis Card users can borrow EURe on Agave against any of the applications listed tokens, including $GNO. Agave is a decentralized non-custodial money market protocol where users can participate by borrowing or lending money through the application.
Agave & Gnosis giving true use case to DeFi in action 👀@gnosischain @gnosispay https://t.co/uDBCdQ1TLm
— Agave (@Agave_lending) July 20, 2023
⛰️ Fuji Finance x Gnosis Chain
Fuji Finance recently integrated Gnosis Chain. With Fuji, you can deposit, borrow, repay, and withdraw a position from any supported chain. In addition, you can optimize your deposit rate and borrow rate. They published an informative Twitter thread this week about $GNO and Fuji. Check it out!
We are excited to announce an integration with @gnosischain!
— Fuji Finance | Cross-chain (@FujiFinance) July 17, 2023
Let's dive into it 👇🏻 $GNO pic.twitter.com/6seRSf6p9X
🧑🏾💻 Gnosis Chain Core Devs Call
The weekly Core Devs Call featured info about the Shapella hard-fork ~ the recording of the call is linked below!
Hello wise owls! 🦉
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) July 20, 2023
Check out the latest Gnosis Core Devs recording along with the notes.
Record: https://t.co/5IW3ef5Egu
Notes: 👇https://t.co/V36nz3rZIW
🧑🏾💻🥷⛓️Events & Hackathons
The entire Gnosis ecosystem was at EthCC this week. Check out the talks, side events and workshops delivered by the Gnosis fam!
🚀 Friederike Ernst ~ Gnosis Chain: Extending Ethereum
The prevalent paradigm of Ethereum scaling has been the inverted pyramid: Everything ultimately settles on L1. Friederike does some back-of-the-envelope calculations to show that this doesn't provide enough throughput for Ethereum. Check out the full talk below!
🇫🇷 Eiffel in Crypto
Safe Global + Gnosis Chain teamed up to co-host the Eiffel in Crypto event at the Eiffel Tower on July 18th. Topics discussed ranged from Account Abstraction, Smart Accounts, ERC-4337, wallets, and more. Team members from Safe, Request Finance, Monerium, Gnosis Chain, Gateway.fm, Gelato Network, and Disco.xyz were all in attendance!
Vibes were strong at the Eiffel Tower. Onchain summer is here.
— Safe (prev. Gnosis Safe) (@safe) July 19, 2023
Thank you for an epic rendezvous with our partners @gelatonetwork @RequestFinance @monerium @discoxyz @gateway_eth @gnosischain pic.twitter.com/39O5IB41sl
🔓Gnosis Chain + Unlock Protocol Side Event
At @gnosischain @gnosisbuilders @GnosisDAO @UnlockProtocol workshop @EthCC side-event w/@RollAMate team 🛠 pic.twitter.com/yTG5tw5axx
— Ariutokintumi(?).eth (@ariutokintumi) July 20, 2023
📂 Gnosis Chain + Fileverse Workshop
🏗️ Don't miss our workshop happening NOW! 🏗️
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) July 21, 2023
From Hack to Startup - Turn your dApp into a business, with @fileverse and @gnosischain
You can watch virtually with this link. 👇
🔗https://t.co/FoRJuajik7 https://t.co/WAOM7Q0RZp pic.twitter.com/AqMf3hUect
🤖 Gnosis Chain + Augment.xyz Hackathon
Thank you to everyone who has made @augmenthack (that we co-organized at #ETHCC) such a success!
— Valory (@valoryag) July 19, 2023
If you're interested in the next hack at the intersection of crypto x AI, as presented by @david_enim & @koeppelmann, you can join here:https://t.co/j3gP6lqIEk pic.twitter.com/ZqeOy42b2g
🐮 CowSwap in Paris
The CoWs are taking over Paris for @EthCC 🇫🇷🐮
— CoW Swap | Better than the best prices (@CoWSwap) July 16, 2023
📆 Monday 17th 13:35 👉 Talk on Commit-reveal schemes against front-running attacks
📆 Monday 17th 19:00 👉 CoW Swap Cheese Fusion Festival Event
📆 Tuesday 18th 👉 MEV day Paris
📆 17th-18th 👉 Get some CoW Swag at our #wagmi booth
🙏 Thank you
Come say hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord. Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on Thursday August 10th, 2023 at 3PM UTC / 5PM CET on the GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces.
See you on-chain!