Drum roll, please 🥁👻

We're excited to reveal our 7️⃣ grant recipients for May!

Keep reading to explore how each team is impacting @aaveaave.lens & @gho.lens. Let's get started... ⬇️

1️⃣ Sommelier Finance

Sommelier Finance is enabling the creation of state-of-the-art DeFi strategies that leverage Aave v3. Their Real Yield ETH vault by Seven Seas Capital and DeFine Logic Labs has already directed close to $5M to v3 for leveraged staking.

2️⃣ Liquidation Backtesting Tool by @wardenfinance.lens

Building upon their previous dashboards to enable anyone to simulate historical liquidation profitability for all Aave assets and deployments to validate the robustness of liquidation penalties.

3️⃣ Xenophon Labs

Xenophon Labs will perform an analysis of the Aave Safety Module and deliver a:

🧪 Research paper that determines an optimal value for the slashing percentage.

⚖️ Forum post — and governance vote, once the SM requires it — to optimize the slashing percentage.

4️⃣ Mosaic

Mosaic will continue building their data analytics platform, including provisioning Aave Liquidity data, creating a model from that data, and generating insights from the activity of Aave LPs.

5️⃣ Console by Brahma

Console will help to onboard users to Aave, improve security, and enable non-custodial asset management. Console will streamline the @gho.lens minting and position rebalancing process by leveraging Safe and @gelato.lens.

6️⃣ DeFi Simulator

DeFi Simulator will internationalize its Aave debt simulator to allow people across the globe to understand their Aave health factor and borrowing power in their local language and currency.

7️⃣ Credit Delegation Marketplace by ProtoFire | Milestone 2

The second milestone for ProtoFire.io's Credit Delegation Marketplace built on Aave using a peer-to-pool model. Current progress is visible in their Github.

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Congrats to all the grantees! We're proud to have you as a part of the Aave Grants DAO fam 👻

Check out our full May update and explore past grant recipients on the governance forum: governance.aave.com/t/agd-renewal-4-recent-work-updates/11585/5?u=0xbilll

Meet our April Grantees 👻

We're thrilled to welcome 7️⃣ innovative projects to the Aave Grants fam.

Want to learn more? Keep reading for a spotlight on each team and how they’re contributing to @aaveaave.lens & @gho.lens. Join us... ⬇️

1️⃣ Risk Radar for GHO by Into the Block

Into the Block's Risk Radar will empower Aave and GHO users to make informed decisions about the protocol and their positions. The dashboard will include custom-made risk indicators for GHO and be freely accessible.

2️⃣ Block Analitica

Block Analitica will build upon their popular and high quality Aave Risk Dashboards by adding support for GHO. The new features will help users understand the stability and solvency of GHO including user, borrower and liquidation metrics.

3️⃣ Awesome Aave

Awesome Aave will be the ultimate platform for discovering and exploring the most exciting projects in the Aave ecosystem. The one-stop shop will highlight different projects built on top of Aave including previous grant recipients.

4️⃣ Cryptografiq

Cryptografiq will enable users to automatically lend tokens received from various streaming protocol, like Sablier or Llamapay, without having to claim them. This will allow tokens to earn yield for users on Aave, rather than sitting dormant.

5️⃣ Strateg Protocol

@strateg.lens is building an omnichain social yield infrastructure, allowing the creation of complex yield strategies without any lines of code, which users can share with their community and be paid for. Strateg will integrate Aave so strategists can use Aave to create strategies (including automated loan management) and users can invest in strategies that leverage Aave without having to worry about the chain or the starting token.

s/o @jeanbrasse.lens & @manuredpills.lens

6️⃣ Senate

Senate is a governance facilitation tool that reduces the friction of participating in governance. First outlined in a TEMP-CHECK, they will build tailored features for Aave DAO starting with email notifications for governance activity.

7️⃣ Aave Inspires Ladies in Blockchain by Ladies Network for Economic Freedom

Aave Inspires Ladies in Blockchain is a conference in Ghana that will educate around 50 women on blockchain and the Aave protocol. The event will promote entrepreneurship and create awareness of Aave.

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Congrats to all seven grantees! We're proud to have you as a part of Aave Grants DAO and cannot wait to watch your contributions 🚀

To read more details on their grants as well as a full overview of AGD’s work completed since our renewal in January check out our halfway update on the governance forum: governance.aave.com/t/agd-renewal-4-april-2023-halfway-updates/13683?u=0xbilll

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