Aave, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol, is contemplating activating a “fee switch” to incentivize participation and investment within its ecosystem
Marc Zeller, the founder of the Aave Chan Initiative, revealed this strategic move during a recent discussion on social media platform X.
Aave Contemplates Fee Switch
Zeller said the platform’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) currently earns approximately $60 million annually in net profits. This substantial figure provides “runway [for] half a decade” as it significantly dwarfs the platform’s operational costs of $12 million. Consequently, Zeller announced an impending “temp check to activate a ‘fee switch’ next week.”
A fee switch, in essence, empowers a platform to toggle specific user fees on or off. For Aave, this means the potential redistribution of transaction-generated fees to platform participants, particularly Aave holders and stakers.
Zeller had previously alluded to implementing fees for Aave stakers in March. At the time, he suggested that a revamped safety module would advocate for fee distribution to stakers.
On-chain data from DeFiLlama shows that Aave is the largest lending protocol in the industry, with over $11 billion worth of digital assets locked on it, while the Aave treasury currently commands $50.3 million across ten addresses. Following news of the proposed fee switch, the price of AAVE rose 4% to around $120.
While Aave gears up for this move, it is worth noting that it is not the first DeFi protocol to adopt a fee switch. Frax Finance governance recently sanctioned a proposal reintroducing a fee switch, and decentralized exchange Uniswap is on the verge of finalizing its own fee switch proposal.
Recently, the Aave DAO has been abuzz with numerous proposals concerning its operations. One prominent proposal, currently under scrutiny, revolves around curtailing exposure to DAI after MakerDAO announced its intention to invest up to $1 billion in fast-rising USDe synthetic dollar stablecoin.
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