🟢 SafeDAO
About
Safe Ecosystem Foundation SEF docs
Mission
- Bring digital ownership to everyone by building a universal and open smart contract standard for custody of digital assets, data, and identity with the Safe ecosystem.
- Constitution (Draft 2023-01-05)
Calendar
- Public URL
- Auto sync events in your Google calendar
- Open calendar.google.com
- Open the left navigation menu if it's not already open: Select the 3 horizontal lines menu button in the top-left corner
- Add a new calendar: "Other calendars" section > Select "Add other calendars" (+ button) > "Subscribe to calendar" > Copy and paste the "Calendar ID" and select the autopopulated search result:
c_547fe085bcb8ca03492e7427fe6c5a58d95c08aeb627c0ceb35c19a0c1450c83@group.calendar.google.com
Governance
Mission – Coordinate on initiatives that help further the goals of the Safe ecosystem.
Safe ecosystem proposals SEPs
Claim SAFE tokens
- Claim (Onchain transaction): app.safe.global > Connect account (Top-right) > Select account (Left navigation menu) > Your voting power > Select Delegating to > Select Claim Safe Tokens
- Claim vested tokens as they become available
- If delegating: Save your delegates ETH address on the Choose a delegate step to see how the delegate votes on future proposals.
Vote
- Sites
- About
- Start/end dates displayed are in local time depending on the machine's settings.
- DAO settings: Voting strategies, quorum, and etc.
- Voting with a Safe account
- Vote directly from the Safe app: app.safe.global
- Go to Apps > Snapshot > Vote with your Safe account.
- Approve the required threshold for your Safe account.
- Total voting power: Includes vested and unclaimed and unvested tokens.
- There's no need to claim new tokens that have vested in order to increase voting power.
- Original holder can override a delegate by voting on a proposal
- Temperature check: snapshot.org/#/safegov.eth
Incorporation
SafeDAO and Safe Ecosystem Foundation (SEF) are separate entities.
Safe Ecosystem Foundation SEF
- About
- SEF is a Swiss non-profit
- Incorporation filing: Safe Ökosystem Stiftung
- A Swiss Foundation acts similar to a smart contract in that the rules to follow must be clearly defined or else liable under Swiss law
- Committees
- The foundation can create community-elected committees, e.g. Grants
- The foundation's board has veto power
- Personal liabilities
- Board members have full personal liability
- Regular participating members have limited personal liability
- The foundation makes the final treasury management and financial decisions
Future potential SafeDAO:SEF relationship
- SafeDAO becomes a primary governance body of SEF
- Potentially formed through a foundation committee composed of SafeDAO members.
- Governance, e.g. Electing the board
- Mandates
- Budgets
- Guidelines/processes
- Timeline: Can take 1-2 years
Resources
Delegate
About
- Delegate voting power of SAFE tokens to someone else
- Can only delegate to one person
- Delegation is editable
Delegate
View votes
Safe Grants Program SGP
About
- Mission
- Build a community of contributors through funding ideas, projects, and integrations
- Not for driving SAFE token utility (Structure in-progress by the SafeDAO)
- Funding: $1mm total
- Forum
Wave 1
About
- Funding: $500k
- Paid in fiat or USDC
- Potential for SAFE payments post-transferability
- Duration: 6 months
- 24 weeks
- 18 weeks operations
- 6 weeks review
- Grants organized by categories
Categories
- Build (~40% fund allocation)
- Growth (~30% fund allocation)
- Research (~20% fund allocation)
- Govern (~10% fund allocation)
Applications
- 3 roles available
- Time commitment: 10 hours per week
- Compensation
- $2,000 USDC per month
- SAFE token retroactive grant to be determined
- Resources
Grants
- See Safe Grants by SEF
- Number of grants: ~30
- Compensation
- Grant size: $5-50k
- SAFE token retroactive grant to be determined
- Up-front payments
- May request an initial amount.
- Cannot exceed 20% of the total requested amount (Unless the grant is < 3 months)
- Published on the SafeDAO forum
- Timelines
- Reviewed weekly
- Approved monthly
- Deliverable timeframe: 4 months
- Review and next cycle planning: 2 months
- Milestones required
- Tracks the progress of the grant
- Benchmark milestones: Progress
- Critical milestones: Outcomes
AAccelerator program
About
- 5 projects building on AA + Safe{Core} will join a 12 week program to incubate their startup
- In partnership with LongHash Ventures
- Benefits
- $200,000 funding per team
- Web3-native curriculum, workshops, and support
- Mentor office hour sessions
- Demo day pitch to investors
Resources
Safe builders’ fellowship program
This is not financial, technical, or legal advice. Do your own research.