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.
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.
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.
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 💹
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.
Water cooler 🆒
Alpha. @Block49Capital shared their thoughts on Aave's social media protocol, with the name possible being “[REDACTED]”.
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
- Learn more about AGD: https://aavegrants.org
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