Tensions erupt around Aave governance, including a spat in the Lobsters channel between Avara CEO Stani Kulechov and Aave Chan Initiative founder Marc Zeller, following reports of revenues from CoW swaps (15-25 bps) not going to the Aave DAO

Tensions in Aave governance flared after community members raised concerns that revenues from the Aave website’s CoW Swap integration were not flowing to the Aave DAO. The dispute centers on an interface change in which Aave Labs replaced ParaSwap with CoW Swap as the site’s main trading route; governance critics said the switch could divert roughly 15–25 basis points of referral revenue away from the DAO, while Aave leadership argued the website is a product owned and operated by Aave Labs, separate from the decentralized protocol itself.

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