Гаманець для Gnosis

What is Gnosis (GNO)?

GNO started as the token of a prediction-market project and ended up as the token of a wide ecosystem: smart-contract accounts, on-chain trading infrastructure, card payments, and a blockchain of its own. For a holder, the interesting part is that GNO is not one thing on one chain.

On Ethereum it is a plain ERC-20 and ETH pays to move it. On Gnosis Chain, where it is also present, the division of labour is unusual: the gas there is a stablecoin, xDAI, while GNO is the asset staked to run validators and secure the network. So on one chain GNO is an ordinary token you send, and on another it is the collateral behind consensus, and the balances on each are counted separately with a bridge between them. GNO is also governance weight in GnosisDAO, where holders decide on the direction of the ecosystem, and supply is capped.

What this means day to day

Balances per network are independent; a transfer needs that network's fee coin, which is not GNO in either case; and tokens committed to validator duties are not sitting free for spending.

Supported networks in Tangem (3): Arbitrum One, Ethereum, Gnosis Chain.

Governance weight and validator collateral are both things you hold for years and touch rarely. A Tangem card generates its key inside its own chip, where it stays for the life of the card, and a duplicate card stored apart from it gives access to the same address without a written phrase, unless you prefer to add one. For a position measured in years, that is the arrangement with the fewest ways to lose it.