What’s happening around @aave right now is way bigger than a governance dispute or a single integration.
This is DeFi confronting its hardest, most uncomfortable question in public:
Who actually owns a protocol?
• The DAO that governs contracts?
• The team that builds and maintains the frontend?
• Or the entity that owns the brand, domains, and distribution?
The CoWSwap fee drama was just the spark.
The fire is years of unresolved tension between token ownership vs real-world control.
Yes, proposals feel rushed.
Yes, timing during holidays is terrible.
Yes, governance process could’ve been cl
