Former core member of AAVE: DAO is the engine, and brand control should be reclaimed.

PANews reported on December 23 that Marc Zeller, a former core member of AAVE, stated that the Aave DAO is the true driving force behind the protocol's operations, rather than Avara, which has transformed into an independent company. Over the past three years, core matters such as Risk Management, technology upgrades, and ecological expansion have been executed by service providers under the DAO, continuously generating substantial revenue for the protocol. Zeller emphasized that if strategic brand assets such as domain names and trademarks are still controlled unilaterally by a private company, it not only weakens the governance of the DAO but may also harm ecological fairness and talent retention, ultimately jeopardizing the foundational development of the entire protocol in the long term.