TIP-025 - $500,000 investment from treasury into Aave ($AAVE)

We believe additional investments in established projects at current market conditions will help to further grow our treasury. Diversity minimises the risk and makes growth possible.

Aave is a decentralised finance protocol that allows people to lend and borrow crypto.

Lenders earn interest by depositing digital assets into specially created liquidity pools. Borrowers can then use their crypto as collateral to take out a flash loan using this liquidity.

The project allows people to borrow and lend in about 20 cryptocurrencies, meaning that users have a greater amount of choice. One of Aave’s flagship products are “flash loans,” which have been billed as the first uncollateralized loan option in the DeFi space. There’s a catch: they must be paid back within the same transaction.

Another big selling point is how those who borrow through Aave can alternate between fixed and variable interest rates. While fixed rates can provide some certainty about costs during times of volatility in the crypto markets, variable rates can come in handy if the borrower thinks that prices will fall in the near future.

After TIP-025 ends, we will withdraw $500,000 from the Treasury to a secondary wallet and will perform the investment in the following hours. (We'll analyse the target project chart to find the best moment to jump in, and may do multiple smaller transactions instead of a big one).