Aave Funding Plan Clears Initial Vote With 52.6% Support Amid Deep Governance Divide - Crypto Economy

CryptoEconomy · 2026-03-02T14:21:06+00:00

TL;DR: The “Aave Will Win” proposal passed its Temp Check with 52.58% of votes in favor, advancing to the protocol’s formal governance process. The framework proposes redirecting 100% of Aave Labs’ product revenues to the DAO treasury, along with a funding request of $42.5 million in

CryptoEconomy

2026-03-02 14:21:06

TL;DR:

The “Aave Will Win” proposal passed its Temp Check with 52.58% of votes in favor, advancing to the protocol’s formal governance process.
The framework proposes redirecting 100% of Aave Labs’ product revenues to the DAO treasury, along with a funding request of $42.5 million in stablecoins and 75,000 tokens.
Marc Zeller questioned the outcome, alleging that votes from addresses linked to Labs determined the result of the voting.

On Sunday, the Temp Check vote for the “Aave Will Win” proposal closed with 622,300 votes in favor —equivalent to 52.58% of the total— against 497,100 votes against and 64,200 abstentions. The result will allow the initiative to advance to the Aave Request for Final Comment (ARFC) stage, where the terms can be revised before any binding on-chain vote.

This framework proposes four operational pillars: redirecting 100% of gross revenues from Labs’ products to the DAO treasury, establishing a formal brand protection mechanism, ratifying V4 as the central technical foundation of the protocol, and creating a scheme for the DAO to fund strategic growth initiatives.

The funding request includes a primary grant of $25 million in stablecoins —$5 million upfront and $20 million distributed over one year— plus 75,000 protocol tokens unlocked linearly over 24 months. Added to that are milestone grants of $5 million for the launch of Aave App, Pro and Card, and an additional $2.5 million for Kit.

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Aave: Fractured Governance

The extremely tight results make clear that there is a deeply divided governance base Marc Zeller, founder of Aave Chan Initiative, published a post-results analysis in which he alleged that the proposal only succeeded thanks to votes from addresses he described as linked to Labs. According to his calculation, if approximately 233,000 tokens from three specific clusters were excluded —including a delegation of 111,000 from founder Stani Kulechov— the outcome would be reversed, with 497,100 NAY votes against roughly 387,000 YAE.

Kulechov, for his part, defended the proposal and noted that the Temp Check brings the protocol closer to a fully token-centric model, with structural improvements to be incorporated at the ARFC stage based on community feedback.

V3 currently generates over $100 million annually in revenue. The proposal contemplates a gradual transition to V4 across a three-phase process: active development, stable maintenance, and legacy support. Only if the proposal advances beyond the ARFC will holders vote to formalize the funding model and ratify V4 as the long-term technical foundation of the ecosystem.

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