Aave DAO opens voting on proposals to scale back CRV publicity

by Jeremy

The Aave group is looking for to scale back its protocol publicity to the Curve DAO token, with two proposals open for voting on Aug. 10. The transfer is available in an try to restrict the chance posed to the lending protocol by the massive borrowing place held by Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov.

Curve DAO (CRV) is the native token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance. Egorov deposited over 30% of CRV’s complete market capitalization as collateral to take out almost $60 million in loans on Aave v2. Nonetheless, Curve’s hack on July 30 impacted its token value, making Egorov’s place susceptible to liquidation.

Till Aug. 12, Aave tokenholders can vote on two proposals. One seeks to scale back the liquidation threshold by 6% for CRV on Aave v2, which may end in consumer accounts turning into topic to liquidation upon approval. The second disables borrowing of CRV on Ethereum and Polygon v3, thus disabling the power to brief CRV through the Aave protocol.

Proposal to scale back the liquidation threshold for CRV on Aave v2 on Ethereum. Supply: Aave

On the time of writing, over 571,000 votes have been solid, with 100% of holders supporting limiting Aave’s publicity to CRV.

Amid fears of liquidation surrounding Egorov’s loans, the Aave group can be voting on a 3rd proposal ending on Aug. 11. Within the proposal, Aave Chan founder Marc Zeller requires the Aave Treasury to purchase $2 million value of CRV tokens from Curve, claiming it could sign that DeFi gamers assist the well being of the ecosystem. On the time of writing, 62.91% of voters assist the acquisition, whereas 37.09% are in opposition to it.

Curve’s assault sparked fears of cascading results throughout the DeFi ecosystem. Behind the hack was a vulnerability on three variations of Vyper — a standard programming language throughout DeFi protocols. The vulnerability triggered white hat and black hat hackers battling on-chain, combating over exploit makes an attempt and cash recoveries. A portion of the funds has been returned by the attacker. Curve Finance is providing a bug bounty to anybody in a position to determine the thief.

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