How Aave Labs and the DAO Should Split Ownership of the Brand - Uneasy Money
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There's these people that are doing that are getting some wrong in the society, and then they complain to the society itself and say, hey. That should not be a load because I'm very sad. That's usually what a load comes from.
The the the point of insider trading laws is not to stop the fairness in the market. It is to stop someone expropriating information that they got from a privileged position, stealing from the company that you got the information from. Not it's not about the people that are trading against you on the Nasdaq. Right?
When people call the the Maduro bet and start trading one, show me any anything that shows that that information was insider. Right? There's a lot of threads on Twitter right now. And let me tell you, especially the, like, look on chain dudes who are like, I'm a sleuth. Look at me. They're wrong.
Welcome to Uneasy Money because what happens on chain never stays on chain. I'm here with my cohost, Taylor Monahan, security at MetaMask. And today, we have a very special guest, Mark Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative, ACI, a provider for the Aave DAO. One quick thing before we start, nothing new here on Uneasy Money is financial advice. We're just three builders talking about what's happening on chain, and we want you to always do your own research before aping it. You can find all of our disclosures at unchainedcrypto.com/uneasymoney.
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Hey, guys. So before we get started, Mark, you had one of the most banger tweets of the year so far. We're only a week in. Your your tweet about Macron after after the Maduro exfiltration, I guess. We don't have the technology to pull up tweets, but but if I remember correctly, it was it was something along the lines of, you know, this is such a terrible situation. I hope that nothing happens to my beloved president who lives at Peru, wherever wherever the Presidential Palace is in in Paris. So, yeah, that was that I laughed out loud at that one. That was very, very impressive.
In France, we have two part of our culture that are extremely important, being very pissed at our politician, and we love the good sarcasm. And I think it was a good mix of those. I that resonate with some people.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. It it landed. So really awesome to have you here because our our main topic today is going to be Aave's governance war and the question of who really controls Aave, but also probably more broadly, who really controls any protocol. Are they controlled? You know, what are the mechanisms? So basically, here's here's the recap, I think. And, you know, Tay, you've you've brushed up on this a little bit. So, you know, jump in if if anything's off here. But a few weeks ago, maybe we'll zoom out even more, right? Aave, I would say for most DeFi enthusiasts is
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