Blast is phasing out Safeâs front-end for multisig wallets, urging users to self-host or use BrahmaFi as it works to integrate multisig directly into its mobile platform.
Layer-2 network Blast, built by the Blur founder Pacman and backed by Paradigm, has ended its service agreement with self-custody wallet provider Safe, citing third-party risk and usability concerns as it prepares to launch its own multisig solution.
The team behind the network said in an X announcement on Tuesday that it had decided ânot to renewâ its service agreement with Safe, adding that users who previously accessed their multisig wallets through Safeâs front-end now had two options: to use BrahmaFiâs hosted front-end or to host their own front-end to âreduce supply chain risk.â
âThatâs why weâre building multisig functionality directly into Blast Mobile â bringing secure wallet access to the entire Blast community.â
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The move comes weeks after Safe, formerly Gnosis Safe, announced a major company restructure. In mid-April, Safe co-founder Lukas Schor said the company was ârestructuring the teams and parting ways with 14 teammates, people we deeply respect, whoâve each contributed meaningfully to our journey.â
Schor explained the layoffs were due to âcomplexityâ that had grown inside the company, adding that the growing complexity âstarted to affect our ability to move at the pace we expect of ourselves.â
The restructure also followed a $1.43 billion theft from crypto exchange Bybit, which was later linked to a compromised Safe developer environment. The attacker, believed to be part of North Koreaâs TraderTraitor group, used a fake stock simulator to install malware and steal session tokens from the developerâs laptop.