Safe Snap: A Governance Tool for Off Chain Voting

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snapshot is this governance tool that allows very easy for for communities to say okay we have a token and you can within minutes spin up a simple voting system where someone can make well anyone can make a proposal and the token holders vote but all of that is done off chain. There are problems around censorship so it's not clear that you need to trust kind of their server that your vote is actually they could censor votes basically yeah. with safe snap so you just mentioned snapshot let's define what snapshot is and then how that relates to safe snap yeah exactlyYeah I think currently definitely the majority of of dows probably a few hundred I mean maybe active maybe like 50 but it's heavily used by many d

This week Anna and Tarun chat with Martin Köppelmann, CEO of Gnosis. The company was known for championing prediction markets, but Gnosis has now shifted to making key infrastructure products. Martin chats about this transition and explains Gnosis’s current products, which include a unique DEX called CowSwap and a number of products for managing DAO treasuries and governance.

Here are some links for this episode:

Gnosis & Full Node with Friederike Ernst, Zero Knowledge episode 94
SafeSnap introductory post
Gnosis Protocol V2 intro
Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin, Zero Knowledge episode 168
Aping into DeFi and NFTs with Andy Chorlian and Tarun Chitra, Zero Knowledge episode 181

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