- Snapshot vote saw over 645,000 votes in favour of advancing Aave V4 toward Ethereum.
- Result expected to progress to a binding Aave Improvement Proposal on-chain vote.
- V4 uses a hub-and-spoke design to share liquidity while isolating market risk.
- Recent governance departures included BGD Labs and the Aave Chan Initiative.
Aave community has endorsed advancing its V4 upgrade to the Ethereum mainnet following a Snapshot governance vote that returned overwhelming support. More than 645,000 votes backed moving V4 forward, with fewer than one vote recorded in opposition and no abstentions, signalling broad community alignment ahead of a binding on-chain decision.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the Snapshot outcome is expected to progress into an Aave Improvement Proposal, which would be the on-chain, binding vote required to deploy and activate V4 on Ethereum. The Snapshot tally itself does not trigger deployment, but it establishes a political mandate inside the DAO for the next formal governance step.
AAVE V4’s Modular Hub-and-Spoke Design
Aave Labs has described V4 as a modular protocol built around a hub-and-spoke architecture. Under that model, shared liquidity will sit in Hubs while discrete Spokes will define individual borrowing markets with separate limits and risk settings.
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The structure is intended to preserve economies of shared liquidity while giving the protocol more granular control over market-level risk and enabling support for a wider set of collateral types and structured credit markets.
The design also aims to simplify cross-market coordination by centralising core liquidity primitives in Hubs and isolating idiosyncratic risk inside Spokes. Aave Labs has framed the approach as a route to expand use cases without immediately exposing the entire protocol to the same risk profile.
Governance Strains and What Comes Next
The near-unanimous vote follows several weeks of internal tension inside Aave’s governance. BGD Labs announced it would end its nearly four-year involvement, citing what it called an asymmetric organisational scenario and an adversarial stance toward its V3 work.
The Aave Chan Initiative also said it would not renew its engagement, with Marc Zeller indicating a phased wind-down after disputes over funding, governance standards, and voting dynamics.
The Snapshot result suggests the DAO is more aligned with V4’s technical path despite those departures. Market participants will focus on the timing and turnout of the forthcoming Aave Improvement Proposal, which must pass on-chain to activate V4 on Ethereum.
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