Thank you to the Gnosis team and the client teams for the speed and professionalism of the response so far. The coordinated soft fork and the clear plan toward a hard fork show that Gnosis Chain takes security, users, and ecosystem responsibility seriously.
This has nothing to do with abstract debates on decentralization. When a clearly identified exploit of this scale on an established protocol occurs, and when the chain has the technical and social ability to remediate it, choosing not to act is not neutrality. It’s rather a decision to let the consequences stand. At this point, with the soft fork already preventing further movement of illicit funds, the remaining choice is whether those funds are ultimately returned to the affected users or allowed to remain under the control of the attacker. Either make people who lost a lof of money whole, or fund an illegal enterprise.
A chain that cannot correct an exploit when it has the tools to do so is not “more decentralized”, it is simply less accountable. Taking responsibility here strengthens, rather than weakens, Gnosis Chain’s credibility as a serious environment for DeFi and for users who rely on it to safeguard real economic value.