Gnosis Chain validators that do not follow Balancer funds’ hard fork may face penalties in the days ahead, according to the network’s official account. After one day of the execution, the Gnosis account warned remaining validators to upgrade and avoid penalties. The penalties are to be enforced via the GNO token and can range from forgoing staking rewards to potential slashing for continued non-participation or disruptive behavior.
On December 12, Gnosis’ head of infrastructure Philippe Schommers stated in a governance forum post that contributors, validators and other stakeholders have been working on a hard fork to recover the frozen funds. The freezing followed a validators-approved soft fork in November 2025, addressing part of the Balancer exploit attacker’s funds.
The hard fork, executed on December 22, aimed to recover around $9.4 million of funds frozen in the Balancer attack. As planned, Gnosis node operators had ten days to upgrade to implement the fork. Following these developments, the Gnosis Chain posted a warning on X urging the remaining validators to upgrade their nodes.
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