Wintermute founder: Will vote against Aave's "governance control" proposal.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy stated in an article published on X that AAVE constitutes a significant portion of Wintermute's investment portfolio, and neither he nor Wintermute holds any equity in Aave Labs.

Regarding the currently hotly debated "brand control" vote, Evgeny stated that there is a significant misalignment in expectations between AAVE Labs and a considerable number of AAVE token holders regarding "who should capture what value," and if this misalignment is not resolved, the token will struggle to continue its development. However, the current escalation of the conflict is both unnecessary and highly destructive. Choosing a course of action before clarifying specific implementation details is meaningless, and much politicization has occurred surrounding this vote. While Stani's communication was indeed inadequate, he believes the other side's criticism is clearly excessive and directly harms the token price; this is not something that should be rushed into.

For the reasons mentioned above, Wintermute will vote against this proposal, but we do hope that AAVE Labs will take this issue seriously and seriously consider how to solve the problem of token value capture in the long term.