Lukas Schor

Lukas Schor is Co-Founder and President of the Board at the Safe Foundation, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, which he co-founded alongside Richard Meissner in March 2022. Safe is a smart contract platform for securing digital assets on Ethereum. In December 2024, Schor announced the launch of Safenet, a decentralised payment network positioned as an open infrastructure alternative to traditional payment rails such as Visa and Mastercard. His stated objective is to move the global economy on-chain onto blockchain-based settlement infrastructure. Safe processes approximately 10% of transfer volume on Ethereum, representing around $150 billion annually. In July 2022, the Safe Ecosystem Foundation raised $100 million in a round led by 1kx, with participation from Tiger Global, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, Lightspeed, and approximately 50 other investors.

Prior to founding Safe, Schor served as Project Lead at Gnosis from January 2019 to April 2022, where he led the development of Gnosis Safe — the product that later rebranded as Safe — which grew to manage over $100 billion worth of digital assets on Ethereum. Before Gnosis, he worked as Marketing Manager at The Argon Group, a cryptocurrency-focused investment bank, from 2017 to 2018, and held an organizing committee role at Tech Open Air in Berlin in 2017. Earlier in his career, he was a global product platform manager at Bosch Switzerland from August 2014 and held product management roles at Jodel and Tech Open Air in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Schor is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen.