Aave Guardian Update

Summary

We would like to elect 10 new members to the Aave Guardian. As an Aave holder, you can select the 10 candidates who will represent the Aave community.

The Guardian currently acts as a “veto” on malicious attacks on the Aave Protocol through governance votes by centralized actors. The Guardian will now also temporarily hold keys of new deployments of the Aave Protocol on L2 (or otherwise) while the technical implementations for Aave Governance to control such deployment on those networks is finalized (i.e., a protocol governance bridge). More details on the rationale for this can be found in this post.

Candidates

We have received a great set of candidates to serve on the Guardian. More details on candidatet backgrounds can be found here.

• Fernando Martinelli (Balancer)
• Itamar Lesuisse (Argent)
• Julien Bouteloup (Curve)
• Dean Eigenmann (Dialectic, previously ZK Labs)
• loiluu (Kyber)
• Hilmar Maximilian Orth (Gelato)
• coderdan (Aavegotchi)
• Hadrien Charlanes (Aave community, previously smart contract dev on Aave Genesis team)
• RafaellaBaraldo (Pods Protocol)
• Isa Kivlighan (Aave community, previously head of marketing on Aave Genesis team)
• Corbin Page (ConsenSys Codefi, Aave Grants DAO)
• Calvin Chu (Impossible.finance, Aave Grants DAO)
• Lea Schmitt (Centrifuge, Maker)
• Tom Walton-Pocock (Geometry DAO)
• Imran Khan (DeFi Alliance, Aave Grants DAO)
• Meltem Demirors (Coinshares)
• Callam (Blockchain at Berkeley)
• 0xMaki (Sushi)
• Ernesto (CTO, Aave Company)
• Dennison Bertram (Tally)
• Gavi Galloway (Standard Crypto)
• Arthur0x (DeFiance Capital)