When teams hear the term “multisig treasury,” they often picture a complex, rigid system built exclusively for massive corporations. We are changing that.

At its core, a Trezu treasury is a shared wallet where your team can manage multi-chain assets together. Unlike standard wallets where one person holds all the power (and all the risk), control is distributed across your team. And because Trezu is entirely non-custodial, we never hold your funds or private keys. We simply provide the workspace; smart contracts enforce your rules on-chain.

Here is a breakdown of how a Trezu treasury actually works under the hood to help you operate with confidence.

Members are Wallets

In Trezu, there is no shared master password. Every team member connects to the workspace using their own individual wallet. You can mix and match the types of wallets your team uses based on the specific job they need to do:

• Everyday Hot Wallets (like Meteor): Ideal for quickly submitting daily requests.

• Hardware Wallets (like Ledger): Essential for high-trust governance actions.

• Other Treasuries: You can even nest one treasury inside another for advanced organizational structures.

This structure maintains true independence. If one member loses their laptop or their device is compromised, the treasury remains intact because no individual can authorize moving funds alone.

The Core Mechanism: Everything is a Proposal

Unlike traditional wallets, every action in Trezu – whether you are executing a multichain swap, paying a contractor, or changing a treasury setting –must start as a proposal.

The flow looks like this:

1. Propose: A member creates the request (e.g., "Send 1,000 USDC to contractor.eth").

2. Review: Designated approvers inspect the details of the request.

3. Vote: Approvers cast their votes using their own connected wallets.

4. Execute: Once the required number of approvals is met, the transaction executes automatically on the blockchain.

This deliberate checkpoint exists to catch honest mistakes, deter internal errors, and help prevent unauthorized actions before any capital actually moves.

Assigning Roles to Keep Work Moving

In basic multisig setups, every team member shares the exact same power. For an active operations team, giving everyone the ability to change your core rules is an operational risk. Trezu uses Role-Based Permissions so you can explicitly define what each member is allowed to do:

There are three distinct roles:

• The Requestor: They can draft and submit payment or swap proposals, but they cannot approve them.

• The Financial Role: They review and vote on day-to-day financial transactions to clear payroll and keep operations moving.

• The Governance Role: A crucial role, they manage the system's rules. They propose and vote to add or remove members, change roles, or adjust voting requirements.

By explicitly separating these roles, you ensure there is no traditional "admin" who can unilaterally drain funds or alter the rules. Power is distributed by design.

Voting Rules & Thresholds

To ensure no single person can act alone, treasuries rely on voting thresholds–the minimum number of approvals required for a proposal to pass.

Trezu gives you highly granular control over these rules. You do not have to use the same threshold for every action. For example, you might set a fast threshold of 1 for your Finance role to quickly process routine software subscriptions, but require a strict higher number of approvals for your Governance role before anyone can change the core treasury settings.

(Note for solo operators: Even if you are managing your own funds, you can still use a mix of a daily hot wallet and backup hardware wallets and use a voting threshold to add multiple layers of security).

The Safety Model

In Trezu, control comes down to three simple concepts: roles define your permissions, members separate your risk, and thresholds enforce your rules. All of this is logged transparently on-chain, giving you an auditable history without ever giving up custody of your keys.

Are you ready to upgrade your team's financial operations? Launch your treasury today at trezu.app.

(Next up: Read our deep dive on securing your Governance role and how to avoid accidentally locking yourself out of your treasury).