Proposal seeks to overhaul Aave’s $375 million Safety Module

Proposal seeks to overhaul Aave’s $375 million Safety Module

Big changes are coming to DeFi’s second-largest protocol and its $375 million insurance pool In a largely celebratory community call devoted in part to commemorating lending protocol Aave’s January 8th “Aaveversary” — a full year of Aave on Ethereum mainnet — there was also a look into Aave’s possible future: a proposal from Delphi Digital seeking to fundamentally alter Aave’s Safety Module and create a new insurance product offering. Currently, $aave governance token holders can stake their tokens in the Safety Module, a pool of liquidity designed to help insure the protocol against a....


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