A recap of the Aave ecosystem, July 26th to August 1st, 2021
Aave News: Community Call Three, Optimism, and Opportunities to Build
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Keep reading for coverage on: Aave Grants DAO Update 🏗 , State of the protocol 📰 , Ecosystem 🧉 , Governance ⚖️ , New market watch 💹 , Mark your calendar 📆 , Aavengers in the wild 🎙 , and Water cooler 🆒
Aave Grants DAO Update 🏗
Third community call. We had our third community call (second on Twitter Spaces!) on July 29th. See below for a recap from each speaker. Thank you so much to everyone who joined and made it possible!
Welcome Remarks by Stani
- The first step in Aave becoming more community owned is through funding ecosystem grants. The next step is for for more protocol development to come from the community (cc: Developers DAO).
Updates on Aave Grants DAO by @HelloShreyas
- New grants: Sponsored Gitcoin Hackathon and ETH Global, DeFi Alliance, Boardroom.
- Retroactive recognition of thoughtful governance posts from individual governance participants with $AAVE rewards.
- Long term vision is to decentralize the grant decision and funding process.
- Apply now to join the Developers DAO - be a developer for the Aave protocol!
Aave Grants DAO high priority RFPs by @inkymaze
Four projects from the Aave Grants DAO: Flipside Crypto, Boardroom, Symphony Finance, and DeFi Alliance
@Avimeyers from Flipside Crypto
- rAAVE'er in Paris 👻
- @FlipsideCrypto offers free access to labeled on chain-data. They bounty out questions weekly and reward communities across DeFi with protocol tokens.
- Main focuses: Education, and user acquisition/retention by getting $AAVE into the hands of users building and growing the ecosystem.