Aave DAO signals unanimous support for ZKsync deployment in community vote.

Aave’s decentralized governance community has given unanimous early backing to deploy the Aave v3 lending protocol on ZKsync Era, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses zero-knowledge rollups to increase throughput and reduce transaction costs. The temperature-check proposal, structured as an Aave Formal Request for Comments (AFRC) and authored by governance delegate group Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), passed on Snapshot with roughly 662,000 votes in favor and none against, meeting both quorum and approval thresholds. Service providers BGD Labs and Catapulta are named as technical partners for the deployment. The next step is an on-chain Aave Improvement Proposal (AIP) vote, which would formally authorize activation of an Aave v3 market on ZKsync if approved. The proposal argues that launching on ZKsync would give Aave users faster and cheaper transactions while retaining Ethereum mainnet security, and could expand demand for Aave’s GHO stablecoin and overall liquidity by tapping into a new Layer 2 ecosystem. Aave has an additional incentive to integrate: ZKsync’s recent airdrop allocated about 8.3 million ZK tokens to Aave—one of the largest allocations among listed “native projects”—despite Aave not yet being deployed on the network. According to ACI founder Marc Zeller, Aave governance is discussing redistributing 100% of that ZK airdrop to Aave users. The strong support contrasts with a recent failed proposal to expand Aave to another Layer 2, Mode, where about 90% of votes opposed the deployment, underscoring that the community is being selective about new network expansions. If the subsequent on-chain vote passes, ZKsync would join the growing set of networks hosting Aave v3 as the protocol continues its multichain expansion strategy.

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