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Safe investor asks Swiss watchdog to intervene in governance dispute

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Greenfield Capital escalated a governance dispute at the Safe Ecosystem Foundation to Swiss regulators after months of trying to change the board. Its requests centered on replacing Stefan George and adding independent board members, and those requests were rejected. The complaint now puts the foundation’s governance under closer regulatory attention.

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Greenfield Capital said it had spent months trying to change the Safe Ecosystem Foundation’s board before bringing the matter to Swiss regulators.
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The complaint could bring more scrutiny to governance practices in decentralized ecosystems.
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Greenfield asked for Stefan George to be removed from the foundation board and for independent members to be added.
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Those board-change requests were rejected, Greenfield said.

What it means

Safe Ecosystem Foundation’s board setup is now under direct regulatory attention, and that is the immediate change a governance dispute like this creates for people watching the project. Greenfield Capital is the party that brought the complaint, so users, investors, and other ecosystem participants now have a formal Swiss process in play rather than only an internal board dispute.

Before this step, Greenfield had been trying for months to change the board through the foundation itself. What changes in practice is that the dispute has moved from repeated requests for board changes to a regulator-facing complaint, while the specific demands remain the same: remove Stefan George and add independent members.

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Oct 5 03:12
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The Defiant context
Its angle: independent, rejected, members; with quotes

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