Formalizing the operational baseline for networks

Over the past several years, a quiet convergence has taken place across leading networks.

As ecosystems matured, treasury and DeFi tooling infrastructure began to standardize, and what started as best practices among major networks has evolved into something more structural. Today, a significant share of onchain treasury value is secured through Safe multisig infrastructure.

Polygon Chain has long operated on this baseline.

We have now formalized what that convergence represents: the Safe Standard.

The Safe Standard

The Safe Standard refers to networks whose foundation treasuries, governance, and critical onchain operations run on Safe infrastructure hosted by Safe Labs.

Safe currently secures 60B+ USD in digital assets across Ethereum and other major EVM networks. It underpins a large portion of DeFi treasuries, DAO structures, and protocol-controlled value across the industry.

Familiar infrastructure lowers coordination friction

Safe has become the de facto treasury and tooling infrastructure for the onchain economy.

Foundations, DAOs, protocol teams, and funds already operate on Safe across Ethereum and major EVM networks. That installed base creates continuity.

When a network standardizes on Safe:

• Builders deploy using onchain tooling they already understand.

• DAOs extend treasury workflows without redesign.

• Funds secure assets with infrastructure already vetted internally.

• Capital flows through trusted interfaces.

Polygon Chain: Scale demands structure

Polygon Chain is not an experimental network. 

Live for over five years, it has processed over 2.2 Trillion of dollars, supported 100+ million unique addresses, and facilitated substantial economic throughput across DeFi, payments, and enterprise use cases. It regularly handles high transaction volumes at low cost, serving a global user base.

Networks operating at this scale do not improvise governance and treasury controls: foundation assets must be secured, operational risk must be minimized, and treasury controls should be non-custodial.

Polygon Chain has long secured its foundation and critical operations using Safe infrastructure, the same multisig framework relied upon by a large share of leading protocols and funds across the ecosystem. This is a mission-critical decision.

That alignment places it within what we now define as the Safe Standard.

Polygon Chain did not introduce a new operational model. Extending an existing one enabled faster ecosystem growth, with ~3M Safe wallets created on Polygon.

Standardization is becoming the baseline

As capital and DeFi builders evaluate networks, certain questions recur:

• How are protocol upgrades controlled?

• Are governance processes enforceable and transparent?

• Is custody infrastructure battle-tested and widely adopted?

• Is the right tooling in place to deploy and upgrade smart contracts?

Safe infrastructure has been live for years, securing billions in onchain value and facilitating millions of multisig transactions across chains.

Networks that can answer these questions clearly accelerate trust.

Operational clarity increasingly influences how quickly ecosystems attract serious builders, funds, and long-term capital.

• Institutional-grade multisig governance is no longer a differentiator – it is rapidly becoming a baseline expectation.

Networks on the Safe Standard (Selected)

• Polygon Chain

• Base

• MegaETH

• Ink by Kraken

• OP

• Arbitrum

These networks share a common operational decision: their foundations, governance, and critical onchain controls run on Safe infrastructure.

This is not partial integration. It is mission-critical infrastructure.

The list will grow deliberately. The criteria remain consistent.

Launching with standardized treasury and onchain tooling infrastructure is the new baseline.

Networks on the Safe Standard meet that baseline from day one. Polygon PoS does.

Safe{Wallet}

23 February 2026

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