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Recently, the most popular figure in the community, besides the soaring AgentFi, is none other than V God (Vitalik Buterin) himself.
However, this time he is not because he has released some technical stunt again, but because of a wildly imaginative and controversial proposal: to let AI take over the governance of DAO.
Doesn't this sound a bit magical? We have worked hard to achieve decentralization, isn't it to take power back from a few people and give it to the community? Now V God says, why don't we hand this job over to AI?
When I first saw this news, my first reaction was: Has V God been talking nonsense lately because of the recent drop in ETH? (Just joking) But after carefully reading his article and the discussions in the community, I found that this matter is far more complex and profound than I imagined.

A governance clash within $AAVE has intensified after Aave Chan Initiative founder Marc Zeller released a sweeping audit of Aave Labs ahead of a proposed $51 million funding vote. In response, Aave Labs published its own performance data and counterarguments, deepening divisions over transparency, revenue allocation, and long term accountability between the DAO and the operating entity.
At the center of the debate is the "Aave Will Win" proposal, which seeks $51 million in funding for $AAVE Labs. Token holders are now evaluating what deliverables, reporting standards, and governance safeguards would accompany such a mandate. Zeller’s audit revisits previous funding sources, including the 2017 token sale, venture backing, and DAO contributions, arguing that new capital requests must be tied to clearly measurable outputs.
Swap fee allocation has become a flashpoint. The audit claims roughly $5.5 million in swap fees flowed to the Labs maintained front end rather than the DAO, framing it as a misalignment in value distribution. Aave Labs insists that these fees emanated from a privately operated interface and were not protocol level revenues controlled by token holders. The dispute highlights a more general structural tension typical for DeFi: what is the right balance between token holder rights and the autonomy of contributors?
There have also been worries about how the governance process is conducted. A few people from the community felt that the recent proposals were ill, timed and too wide in scope. They stated that token holders should be given more time and better disclosures to evaluate major funding decisions. The governance forum is currently debating an addendum that would put in place more stringent conflict of interest provisions as well as a requirement for disclosure of new proposals.
Market situation brings about another dimension. AAVE has been hovering around the $120 level, and technical signals depict a slight weakness along with increased volatility. Although price movements don't decide governance results, the perception of the openness of funding and the quality of its execution may have an impact on how participants weigh risk shortly.
Another focal point is Horizon, $AAVE real world asset initiative. The audit questions its net economics and suggests that incentives and non, performing positions might have led to exaggerations of headline revenue figures. In case, these allegations are true, the DAO may be driven to enhance the strictness of its reporting standards, further define KPIs, and rethink the subsidy schemes tied to RWA expansion
On the flip side, in South Korea, regulatory changes are increasingly becoming the main topic of discussion.
The legislators are moving towards raising the disclosure requirements for crypto influencers on social media to such an extent that they may be required to reveal not only their holdings but also the payments they receive for the assets they promote. The breach of such rules may result in penalties at par with those for capital market offenses, which is a sign of a wider effort to establish formal standards for the promotion of digital assets.
What lies ahead for Aave is how governance is going to change in reaction to the $51 million proposal, not just whether it will be approved. The decision will determine the extent to which DAOs will have to consider changes to their solutions for raising funds, giving ownership of the front end, and maintaining transparency in a DeFi world that is becoming more and more under the microscope.
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