Aave News: Avalanche, App, AMAs, and aDPI

A recap of the Aave ecosystem, August 16th to August 22nd, 2021

Welcome to Aave News 👻 The tl;dr on the Aave ecosystem

Keep reading for coverage on: Aave Grants DAO update 🏗 , State of the protocol 📰 , Ecosystem 🧉 , Governance ⚖️ , Request for comments 🗣, New market watch 💹 , Mark your calendar 📆 , Aavengers in the wild 🎙 , and Water cooler 🆒

Aave Grants DAO update 🏗

AMA with Flipside Recap.@GJFlannery19 joined @0xbilll to discuss the launch of community enabled analytics for Aave. Dive into the program and catch a CMS Intern-style recap below.

AMA with Centrifuge. Mark your calendars for the next Aave Grants AMA with Centrifuge. Get your burning questions about real world assets ready.

Aave Grants DAO @AaveGrants

👻 AMA with Centrifuge 📅 Thursday, August 26th @ 4pm UTC 🐦 LIVE on Twitter Spaces 👀 Centrifuge has proposed adding a real world asset money market to Aave ⁉️ Questions we should ask? Leave below or DM

Omni update. @ericrhare from Omni Analytics shares a progress update and the team’s next steps. A first version of their Aave Analytics and Growth Dashboard is live!

State of the protocol 📰

Aavelanche. Aave has launched on Avalanche along with $20 million of AVAX in liquidity incentives for Aave users. This is the start of Aave's cross chain ambitions, with Solana possibly being next.

Avalanche 🔺 @avalancheavax

Experience the power of #Avalanche. Welcome to #AvalancheRush, the $180M liquidity mining incentive program in collaboration with leading DeFi dapps–both on and off Avalanche– starting with @AaveAave and @CurveFinance. And, this is just Phase 1!

medium.comAvalanche Foundation Announces $180M DeFi Incentive ProgramTitled “Avalanche Rush,” the program will bring blue-chip DeFi applications to Avalanche, starting with two popular protocols, Aave and Curve. The Avalanche Foundation has announced Avalanche Rush, a…

Metrics to explore.

• Protocol performance metrics from @A_BertoG

• Growth metrics including usage, volume, economics, segment behaviour, and staking info from @OmniAnalytics

• Voting and governance metrics from @Boardroom_info

• Treasury analytics dashboard from @llamacommunity_

Ecosystem 🧉

Aave Mobile. 206 addresses representing 15.24k AAVE voted unanimously in support of Aave Grants providing a $98k grant to 2001DeFi to build out a mobile application for Aave. The Snapshot vote is a temperature check to gauge support for larger sized grants. Catch up with the discussion and share your thoughts.

Aave @AaveAave

The 2001Defi team has submitted an @AaveGrants application to build a mobile app for Aave 👻📲 Read the proposal here: governance.aave.com/t/proposal-bui… Snapshot is open: snapshot.org/#/aave.eth/pro…

Governance ⚖️

AIP-32 and AIP-31. Proposals to extend liquidity mining and to add DPI on Aave V2, each respectively passed Aave governance. Emissions for liquidity mining are reduced by 9% and more assets including LINK, YFI, xSUSHI, UNI, MKR, and BAL have been added.

Request for comments 🗣

The following proposals have recently been active:

• Update AMPL interest rate curve to account for over-approximation in compounded interest | the discussion includes rationale for updating the interest rate curve and previously raise concerns.

• Aave Risk DAO

• Aave Market Launch on Harmony

• Add Uniswap V2 DPI-ETH LP to Aave AMM

• Add support for $FEI as a deposit currency

• Proposal to add support for renBTC

• Provide better oracle mechanism for correlated assets

• Liquidation Bonus Updates

New market watch 💹

DPI. With the passing of AIP-31, DPI has been added to Aave V2 🥳

Matthew Graham 🇦🇺 @Matthew_Graham_

$DPI is officially listed on @AaveAave. 👻🦉 Awesome achievement @indexcoop. 🤘 Deposit $DPI and borrow stables on V2. 🔥 Thank you for all the help @A_BertoG. 😀

GHST Snapshot. A Snapshot vote to add $GHST to the Polygon market was positively received by the community. Read the DeFi case for $GHST by @coderdannn and the full proposal on the governance forum.

Mark your calendar 📆

AMA with Centrifuge - August 26th at 4pm UTC

#ETHOnline by ETH Global - September 17th to October 15th

Stani will be speaking at:

• Mainnet 2021 by Messari - September 20th to 22nd

• Wyoming Blockchain Stampede - September 21st to 26th

• Token2049 London - October 7th to 8th

Aavengers in the wild 🎙

The Rise of DeFi. Your weekly dose of on-demand Stani content.

Anchorage Digital @Anchorage

NOW LIVE: Symposium #005: The Rise of #DeFi, a discussion on how DeFi is redefining capital markets and enterprise infrastructures. Moderated by @FortuneMagazine's @rhhackett, and featuring @diogomonica, @HHorsley, @StaniKulechov, and @Melt_Dem.

youtu.beSymposium #005: The Rise of DeFiThis virtual panel, hosted by Anchorage Digital, discusses how DeFi is redefining capital markets and enterprise infrastructures. The discussion will dive de...

Water cooler 🆒

Alpha. @Block49Capital shared their thoughts on Aave's social media protocol, with the name possible being “[REDACTED]”.

Block49 Capital @Block49Capital

Why @AaveAave will be an essential piece to the Web 3.0 Puzzle. [Thread] A couple weeks ago @StaniKulechov hinted at building a decentralized social network. That got us thinking about how that might work. Here's what we think. $AAVE

Learn more and join the AGD community:

• Browse RFPs: https://aavegrants.org/Request-for-Proposals-160203ba5d1746daae31588924a6680a

• Chat with the community on Telegram: https://t.me/aavegrantsda

• Join the governance forum: https://governance.aave.com

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