- Aave Labs has published an updated version of its “Aave Will Win” ARFC after incorporating community feedback.
- The framework would direct 100% of revenue from Aave-branded products to the Aave DAO treasury under a token-centric structure.
Aave has moved its latest strategic proposal into a more concrete phase. After weeks of discussion, revisions and community pushback on key details, Aave Labs has now published the updated ARFC for what it calls the “Aave Will Win” framework.
Aave Labs is pitching a tighter DAO revenue loop
At the center of the proposal is a fairly direct idea. If the framework is approved, all revenue generated by Aave-branded products would be routed to the Aave DAO treasury. That would mark a notable shift in how the economics around the broader Aave product stack are handled.
The proposal is being framed as a token-centric alignment model, which in practical terms means bringing product growth and DAO value capture more closely together. Instead of leaving product-layer economics partially outside the DAO’s immediate revenue base, Aave Labs wants those flows to accrue directly to the treasury.
That matters because Aave is no longer just a lending protocol with one interface and a narrow DeFi-native audience. It is trying to grow into something wider, with more user-facing products, more institutional tooling and a bigger share of the onchain financial stack.
Community feedback has already reshaped the proposal
The updated ARFC also signals that Aave Labs is trying to make this politically digestible inside governance. The revised version comes after community feedback, which suggests the team is not trying to jam through a static plan unchanged, but is instead adjusting the framework as DAO stakeholders push for more clarity and tighter alignment.
That does not mean the proposal is now uncontroversial. Redirecting 100% of product revenue to the DAO raises obvious questions about budgets, execution, accountability and how Aave Labs itself is funded while building the next phase of the ecosystem.
Still, the broader message is hard to miss. Aave Labs is effectively arguing that the next chapter of Aave should be built around a cleaner economic relationship between the company’s product work and the DAO treasury. If governance backs that logic, the protocol’s future may be shaped less by a single upgrade and more by a deeper restructuring of who captures the upside.
