Aave News: Governance Rewards, Post-mortems, and Request for Comments ⚖️👻🗣

A recap of the Aave ecosystem, August 9th to August 15th, 2021

Aug 16, 2021

Welcome to Aave News 👻 A weekly digest to keep you updated with the ecosystem. Now featuring Request for comments 🗣, a section highlighting active Aave Request for Comments (ARC) to amplify awareness of governance conversations and encourage participation.

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 🏗

Progress updates. This week, @0x_kakashi from Symphony Finance, @DennisonBertram from Tally, and @realstevenli from Aave Liquidation Notifier drop by the governance forum to share updates.

Symphony Finance shares their progress and future plans for their yield generating limit orders.
SafeGuard by Tally is having an audit completed by OpenZeppelin for their governance lego tool for DAOs.
Aave Liquidation Notifier alerts users as soon as the value of their collateral drops towards liquidation. Try it now for Aave V2 and Polygon positions.

AMA with Flipside. Analytics and bounties for Aave are coming to @flipsidecrypto and @GJFlannery19 is joining us on Tuesday to break it all down. Set a reminder and share any questions you want asked.

AMA with Flipside Crypto on Twitter Spaces this Tuesday, August 17th

Governance rewards. We are excited to start the process of rewarding active governance participants. Thank you and congrats to the first eight governance users who have received an Aave reward 👻🥳

State of the protocol 📰

Metrics. To dig into the protocol beyond top line metrics like TVL, explore:

Protocol performance metrics from @A_BertoG - recent thread here
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 🧉

Attention Cono Finance users. Follow the prompts to upgrade your position to ensure Gelato bots protec you.

Rabbit come and go. The latest quest from RabbitHole and accompanying 1500 rewards for Aave's Polygon were gobbled up by eager Aavengers. Turn alerts on so you don't miss the next one 🔔

Governance ⚖️

AIP-23 and AIP-29 deep dive. @NateParton from Tally provides a recap of the contentious governance votes to add BOND as collateral to Aave V2, and to hire Gauntlet for continuous risk monitoring and parameter change recommendations.

AIP-29 post-mortems. For further reading on AIP-29, @inkymaze from Gauntlet and @Figue_me from Paladin share their takes on the proposal.

Request for comments 🗣

In an effort to better keep the Aave community informed of ongoing discussions in the governance forum, Aave News is adding a Request for comments 🗣 section.

Governance ⚖️ will focus on AIPs and changes to the governance process and tooling. Request for comments 🗣 will highlight active ARC in the governance forum. An ARC is an 'Aave Request for Comments' where the community is asked for their input on a potential governance proposal. An ARC is the first step in having an idea implemented in the protocol.

What else can we do to better keep the community aware of and engaged with governance discussions?

The following ARC have recently had active back and forth:

Add support for $FEI as a deposit currency | @joey__santoro is continuing the discussion including around seeding the market with 25 million FEI, changing the interest rate parameters, and potentially adding TRIBE incentives.
Aave Centrifuge Permissioned “RWA” Market Proposal | @Centrifuge is proposing to create a new permissioned Aave market for real world assets.
Aave Market Launch on Harmony | @lijiang2087 from Harmony wants to launch Aave V2 to their EVM compatible blockchain which has raised some security concerns from the Aave community.
Add support for DeFi Pulse Index (DPI) | @AlphaLemonade originally proposed adding DPI to Aave V2 in April. Discussion has continued since then, including questions around the multisig and permissions for minting new DPI.
Proposal to add support for renBTC | @MaxRoszko shares that the Ren protocol is about to undergo a key step towards decentralizing, which is also a big step for renBTC coming to Aave.
Provide better oracle mechanism for correlated assets | Governance user, pakim249, proposes using multiple price feeds for highly correlated assets to reduce the risk of unnecessary liquidations.
Sell Longs Through Aave | Governance user, ControlCplusControlV, proposes increasing the utilization of stablecoin pools by leveraging DeFi and allowing users to long the underlying asset.
Liquidation Bonus Updates | @inkymaze from Gauntlet proposes to reduce the liquidation bonus for 10 assets in Aave V2.

New market watch 💹

AMPL revamp response. The AMPL market seems to have responded positively to two AIPs that tweaked the parameters with utilization decreasing from ~100% to ~69%.

Mark your calendar 📆

Double feature this Tuesday, August 17th

12pm EST/3pm UTC: @Flipsidecrypto joins us for an AMA on Twitter Spaces
1pm EST/4pm UTC: @Chainyoda on a panel to discuss 'How embracing DeFI is unlocking value for Institutions'

#ETHOnline by ETH Global is coming September 17th to October 15th

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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 🎙

Behind the scenes. @A_BertoG joined @BlockchainGirls for a discussion on all things Aave. @BeyondCurrency provides a great recap for anyone who could not attend.