Aave News #84

Jan 21, 2023

Spotlight: Aave Grants Renewal 🔦

After receiving almost unanimous support with 527K 'YAE' votes, the proposal to renew Aave Grants for six more months has move to an AIP. Voting is live now for three days. This is Aave Grants’ fourth proposal to drive development, attract the best contributors, and ensure Aave's long-term growth by funding talented builders and cultivating Aave's culture 👻

Aave Companies deployed Aave v3.0.1 across testnets: Goreli, Mumbai, OP and Arbitrum. You can try it out from the main Aave UI by toggling to ‘Testnet mode’. There are a variety of changes in the new version, which sets the ground work for…
An on-chain vote to launch Aave v3 on Ethereum will go live this upcoming week! If the vote is successful, execution will happen on Friday, January 27th.
Following a successful on-chain vote, OP has been added to Aave v3. Read more about this and other proposal in Governance ⚖️.

We officially announced ten Aave Grantees from December! Congrats to all the teams: Block Analitica, Ethereum Climate Platform, Radish, Tookey, Linen Wallet, DeFi Education Program, Blockpay, DeFunds.co, Invictus Labs & Valha. Check out each of the teams and give them a ghostly Aave Grants welcome 👻
Projection Finance’s alpha is live for Aave v3 Avalanche! Learn more on the governance forum, sign up to check out their simulation platform and provide any feedback 🚀
In case you missed it, all Aave Grant recipients are now eligible to claim a Lens profile handle. Once you get your handle, drop us a follow at AaveGrants.lens 🌿
Llama shared the Q4 Financials for Aave including total deposits, a full income statement and treasury balances on each chain 🦙
Oasis Multiply is improving the experience for Aave users by enabling them to immediately utilize borrowed USDC to buy more collateral 🌴

Add OP to Aave v3 on Optimism (141). This proposal passed with 100% voting “YAE” and was executed on January 14.

[ARC] Aave Ethereum V3 market initial onboarded assets. This proposal ended on January 14 with 85% voting in favor of Chaos Labs’ approach.
Enable Search by UNS + ENS Domains. This proposal ended on January 15 with almost 54% voting “YAE.”
[Updated] Aave Grants DAO Renewal. This proposal passed on January 12 with almost 100% voting “YAE.”

[ARC] onboard rETH (rocket pool ETH) to Aave V3 ethereum market. An “opportunity to add rETH to the Ethereum V3 market as a reserve.”
[ARFC] wETH & wstETH Interest Rate Curve - Ethereum Network. A proposal from @Llamaxyz “to amend wETH and wstETH interest rate parameters on the v2 and v3 deployments.”
[ARC] Compensate Bug Bounty Contributor. Gauntlet suggests that the community compensate the “contributor for risk analysis conducted during market volatility” — specifically related to the REN asset.
[ARC] Add Add wstETH to Aave V3 on Optimism. @Pauljlei provides parameter recommendations.
[ARFC] CRV Interest Rate Curve Upgrade. A proposal from Llama to update “CRV interest rate parameters on the Aave Ethereum v2, Ethereum v3 (when deployed), Polygon v3, and Polygon v2 Liquidity Pools.”
[ARC] Aave Protocol Plan for Shanghai Upgrade. Gauntlet kicks off the discussion around “potential actions the Aave community can take.”
[ARC] ETH Interest Rate Curve Update. Llama posts a reminder of what is to be implemented when V3 is deployed on Ethereum.
[ARC] Gauntlet Risk Parameter Updates for Aave V2 ETH (2023-01-12). No changes suggested for the week, but position analysis is presented.
Launch Aave V3 on Celo. The question continues to be discussed.
[ARC] Add support for cbETH. With Aave V3 launch coming, @AndrewA would like to take up discussion again.