*/ Safe Ecosystem Foundation
QUARTERLY REPORT
Second Quarter 2026
July 29, 2026
*/ Q2 2026 at a glance
Safe smart accounts (“Safe”) recorded its second consecutive quarterly transaction high, processing nearly 130 million transactions as monthly active accounts reached 2.73 million in June. The quarter also marked the launch of Safenet Beta, with 54.8 million SAFE token (“SAFE”) staked across 539 stakers.
Read the Q2 2026 announcementFor most of crypto's history, security depended on a small number of people paying very close attention: teams reviewing code, signers checking addresses, protocols watching dashboards, and multisigs approving transactions they believed they understood.
That model carried the industry far. But it is no longer enough.
The same AI systems that help teams understand complex systems faster also give attackers new reach. They can analyze codebases, transaction histories, interfaces, and social context at a scale no human team can match by watching screens. Security can no longer only mean reacting well after something has gone wrong. It has to move closer to the moment where value moves.
That is the idea behind Safenet.
In April 2026, Safe Ecosystem Foundation launched Safenet Beta, a network built to bring transaction checks and enforcement onchain. The launch came as Q2 recorded more reported crypto security incidents than any previous quarter: 83 incidents and an estimated $755 million stolen.
Six genesis validators operate the network, with 54.8 million SAFE staked across 539 stakers. SafeDAO approved 5 million SAFE in funding through SEP-55, and by quarter-end the network had processed 455,646 transaction checks.
The broader Safe ecosystem also recorded its strongest quarter to date.
April was the busiest month in Safe's history, with 55.4 million transactions. During the quarter, Safe processed nearly 130 million transactions, surpassing the Q1 record. Monthly active Safe accounts increased each month, reaching 2.73 million in June. By quarter-end, over 63 million Safe accounts had been created, a 20 percent year-over-year increase.
This activity held up even as crypto prices fell sharply in June. Active accounts continued to rise, and the value transferred through Safe accounts on Ethereum, expressed in ETH, reached its quarterly high.
Safe has become essential account infrastructure for crypto. Consumer applications use Safe to give millions of people programmable accounts without adding friction. Protocols and institutions use it to manage capital without giving up control. During emergencies, Safe gives large groups a trusted way to coordinate quickly.
We saw that clearly after April's Kelp DAO exploit. Through DeFi United, more than 142,000 wallets participated in an Aave-led effort that coordinated approximately $300 million through Safe smart accounts to help restore rsETH's backing.
Safe was created so that individuals, teams and institutions could hold and transfer digital assets without relinquishing control. That purpose has not changed. What is changing is the scale of the challenge.
As more value moves onchain, users need more than secure ownership. They need to understand what a transaction will do, coordinate around shared assets and stop dangerous actions before value leaves an account.
Safe is evolving from infrastructure that safeguards value into a network that can also help verify how value moves.
There remains much to build.
Six genesis validators run Safenet in beta, with 54.8 million SAFE staked behind a network built to bring transaction checks and enforcement onchain.
April was the busiest month in Safe's history. The quarter closed at nearly 130 million transactions, turning Q1's record into the new baseline.
Milestones
Safe set a second consecutive quarterly record
April became the busiest month in Safe's history with 55.4 million transactions. Q2 closed at nearly 130 million, 5.7 percent above the record set in Q1.
Protocol Metrics
Safenet Beta
The defence protocol for self-custody. A resilient network secured by the SAFE token, built to bring wallet transaction security onchain, even if you sign by mistake.
54.8M
SAFE staked
up from 50.4M at the April close
99.9%
Validator participation
across Safenet Beta validators
5M SAFE
SafeDAO funding
SEP-55, passed at 3x quorum
Transactions Checked
456K
Cumulative since the April 2 launch. Exactly 455,646 at the June 30 close.
Checks by chain
Ethereum and Arbitrum carried roughly 94% of Q2 checks.
Participating Staker Addresses
539
Cumulative since the April 2 launch.
Safe in Context
Safe is the infrastructure that much of DeFi runs on.
The Invisible Engine of Onchain Coordination
Blockchains made it possible to transfer value, but it took Safe to make it possible to coordinate it. Before 2017, the ecosystem lacked a secure, programmable way for groups to jointly manage digital assets. What began as a way for Gnosis to manage its own treasury became a programmable smart account used by teams, protocols, institutions and communities around the world. Safe now sits quietly beneath much of the coordination that happens onchain.
When protocols, institutions, or spontaneous global coalitions need to secure, govern, and deploy billions of dollars, they don't build new plumbing. They deploy a Safe.
Crypto Relief 2021 · Approx. $430M
Routed roughly $430M for India's COVID crisis, with Vitalik Buterin's donation the breakthrough moment.
Safe Project Revenue
Capital Stewardship
Foundation Treasury
The treasury delivered a portfolio APY of 5.5 to 5.75 percent in Q2, approximately 250 basis points above the 3.2 to 3.6 percent comparison benchmarks. The program, managed by Hecate Ventures AG, prioritizes principal protection and diversification.
Benchmark Context
As of June 30, 2026.
Deployed
~$14M
as of June 30, 2026
Active Positions
14
across DeFi and fixed-income strategies
May
First real-world-asset position
Hecate Ventures opened its first real-world-asset (RWA) position and a position in a KYC'd, permissioned lending vault, extending the portfolio into tokenized credit while maintaining its audited-protocol and counterparty standards.
Jun
Fixed-income mandate opened
Opened the first position under the new fixed-income mandate, broadening diversification beyond onchain yield venues.
Across Our Teams
The Safe Ecosystem Foundation's program of long-term, bilateral SAFE token swaps with teams building durable self-custody infrastructure reached its third partnership in Q2: a five-year swap with Velvet, announced in mid-May, following World and JOIN. The program sets a commercial template for aligning Safe with the builders extending its reach, at ecosystem scale rather than one deal at a time.
PR & Ecosystem
All coverage (2 more)
All ecosystem activity (13 more)
Looking Ahead
Q3 2026 Outlook
Q2 moved several long-term efforts from early proof toward production. Q3 priorities focus on bringing those systems closer to users.
Priority 01
Safenet: from observation to enforcement
Safenet's Q3 priorities include audited onchain enforcement, integration with Safe{Wallet}, and new checks designed to detect recipient and address manipulation. Work will also continue on the network's long-term economic model for validators and stakers.
Read the Safenet Beta Q2 progress review ->Priority 02
Connecting security with everyday account operations
Safe Labs and Safe Research plan to connect Enterprise Workspace and Security Hub with onchain policies, spend limits and transaction controls. The goal is to bring security checks directly into the workflows teams use to manage assets.
Priority 03
Broadening staking access
Building on the first set of interface operators, the Safe Ecosystem Foundation is exploring how to make Safenet staking accessible through the platforms people already use, without requiring a technical workflow.
Priority 04
Treasury
The Foundation Treasury program will continue to expand across asset classes and diversify its structured-product and execution strategies beyond SAFE and stablecoin exposure.
Disclaimer
This quarterly report has been prepared by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities, tokens, or financial instruments.
Forward-looking statements in this report, including projections about protocol growth, revenue, partnerships, and product development, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Cryptocurrency and digital asset markets are highly volatile, and past performance does not guarantee future results.
The SAFE token is a governance and network security token. This report does not constitute a prospectus, offering document, or financial promotion of any kind. Recipients are advised to seek independent professional advice as appropriate.