⚔️ 🦉 Gnosis Chain Weekly · 21 October 2022

The future of the Internet

Transaction censorship was a hot-button issue this week with MEV Watch publishing stats about the percentage of OFAC compliant blocks on Ethereum. Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX authored a document about proposed standards for digital assets.

Allowing all transfers opens up the door to significant financial crimes, and banning all transfers unless allowlisted grinds commerce and innovation to a halt and freezes out the economically disadvantaged.  Maintaining a blocklist is a good balance: prohibiting illegal transfers and freezing funds associated with financial crimes while otherwise allowing commerce. SBF https://www.ftxpolicy.com/posts/possible-digital-asset-industry-standards

Either you believe that the censoring of blacklisted wallets by OFAC represents a fundamental breach of why blockchains were designed in the first place or you’re of the opinion that nothing is above the law and comply, one must.

Martin Koppelman, co-founder of Gnosis, tossed his hat into the ring tweeting, “We reached another sad milestone in censorship: 51% This means if the censoring validators would now stop attesting to non-censoring blocks they would eventually form the canonical, 100% censoring chain.”

Martin Köppelmann 🇺🇦 @koeppelmann

Dear Flashbots team - I spoke to many of you personally and you committed to take actions if censorship becomes worse - but if not now, when then?

Friederike Ernst, another founding member of Gnosis, hosted a barn burner panel at Devcon about censorship resistance and credible neutrality for the Epicenter podcast.

Epicenter Podcast – 🦅 Flying High 🐋 Diving Deep @epicenterbtc

🚀BONUS EPISODE🚀 From @EFDevcon in Bogota 🇨🇴 @tw_tter moderated a panel discussion on censorship resistance and credible neutrality with @phildaian @stonecoldpat0 @SCBuergel @koeppelmann and @sreeramkannan epicenter.simplecast.com/episodes/b007

In short, as Ethereum vies for mainstream adoption its foundational values have been brought into sharp focus. One thing is for sure and that’s our dedication to credible neutrality on Gnosis Chain. Ultimately, this is a conversation about norms and the future of the Internet. Come stop by the Gnosis Chain discord and let’s talk about it.

Martin Köppelmann 🇺🇦 @koeppelmann

L2 are incredibly important - but they can not offer credible neutral block space. However, we believe we need more truly censorship resistance block space and that is why @gnosischain is another L1 with a focus on decentralisation.

hayden.eth 🦄 @haydenzadams

@koeppelmann @sassal0x @deanrey3 @antiprosynth @fund_defi Pretty sure every single viable l2 solution today requires significant latency for true censorship resistance

Updates

The Graph Network brings 360+ indexers to the Gnosis Chain

Eva Beylin @evabeylin

360+ Indexers are syncing Gnosis Chain & testing to serve Gnosis dapps on The Graph Network - the journey to fully decentralized multi-chain support continues!

All Hallow’s Eve event w/ Safe & Gnosis Chain at ETHLisbon

Gnosis Chain 🦉 @gnosischain

Gnosis Vibe at Lisbon! Join us for a panel talk followed by spooky drinks 🍹🍸 and a halloween themed dance party! 🥳🎃 🕺💃 🎟️ partiful.com/e/lWSuN5diEs51… 👇👇👇👇

Lisbon Blockchain Month 2022 @lx_blockchain22

who says parties are only for the weekend? Safe x Gnosis Chain show us they don't - by throwing one next Tuesday 🔥 https://t.co/asQl512BKe

Merge Update 🦉

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GnosisDAO Community Call

We sat down with RossToTheFuture of the Azuro team along with team leads from across the Gnosis ecosystem on the latest community call.

GnosisDAO @GnosisDAO

GnosisDAO Community Call 🔒🐮🪐🦉 Tomorrow Oct 19 @ 3PM UTC / 5PM CET! Gnosis ecosystem updates and a chat w/ @RossToTheFuture about the @azuroprotocol, prediction markets, and decentralized betting 😎🤘

GnosisDAO @GnosisDAO

Join us for the GnosisDAO Community Call!🦉 Updates: @safe @CoWSwap @GnosisGuild & GIPs @RossToTheFuture from @azuroprotocol will drop by for a convo about Azuro and Gnosis 📅 Oct 19, 2022 ⏳3PM UTC / 5PM CET 📍GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces 🔒🐮🪐🦉 https://t.co/8Bt9IZvse6

We’re back… BACK

GnosisDAO @GnosisDAO

The GnosisDAO Governance Summary is BACK! 🌟 In August of this year our newsletter was shut down without notice. Oh, third-party intermediators. As a community of dedicated peer-to-peer builders and DAO members, we take transparency and collective decision-making seriously. 1/7

Light wallet, Small Hold supports xDai

SimpleHold @SimpleHold

Please welcome #xDAI on SimpleHold 👍 xDAI is created 1:1 with Ethereum’s DAI token and bridged to the #Gnosis Chain. xDAI is a stablecoin that aims to have a $1 price peg and is primarily used as a transaction payment token Store #xDAI in SimpleHold ➡️ click.simplehold.io/0nEk/5k5fi3r7

🏔 of the Week

A few weekly tidbits highlighting regular goings on.

🏘 DAO of the Week: PeaceDAO

PeaceDAO is a non-traditional NGO funding platform aimed at creating non-traditional funding models for global crisis zones. It was founded after the war in Ukraine broke out, and has deployed over $70,000 in Ukraine.

By funding small grass-roots organizations, PeaceDAO has been able to pay for the evacuation of over 1,000 Ukrainians. During this crisis, PeaceDAO has provided funds for crucial supply runs and funded transportation costs aimed at mitigating civilian casualties and alleviating suffering.

At the moment PeaceDAO is transitioning toward a more global initiative. Stay tuned by checking into their discord under the channel “PeaceDAO”.

Azuro’s Bet of the Week on bookmaker.XYZ

It’s time for the weekly check-in with Azuro Protocol and their first betting front-end, bookmaker.xyz. 

We’ve had quite the week of great picks at bookmaker.xyz. We wrapped our  “XYZ Flu Season” campaign on Wednesday, where we dropped free bet NFTs to followers who shared their bets on Twitter all week. So for this week's newsletter, we’ll focus on one of the best bets from that campaign!

Coming via “LockedandLoaded” on Twitter, who not only won one but two of the daily free bet NFTs! We’re focusing on his great pick for Slavia Prague - CFR Cluj. Betting 5 xDAI on CFR to win on the 1x2 markets at odds of 7.78. The result was a 38 xDAI win and an additional $50 free bet for simply sharing his bet on Twitter!

We just launched our “Betting Battle Royale” competition, and next week’s bet of the week will surely be a hard one to choose!

Firm handshakes all round.

🙏 Thank you

Come say hi in the Gnosis Chain Discord. Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on the 10th of November at 5PM CET, GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces account.

See you on-chain,
Gnosis Chain Team