# \[ARFC\] $AAVE token alignment. Phase 1 - Ownership

**URL:** <https://governance.aave.com/t/arfc-aave-token-alignment-phase-1-ownership/23616>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [December 16, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/arfc-aave-token-alignment-phase-1-ownership/23616 "2025-12-16T16:42:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/arfc-aave-token-alignment-phase-1-ownership/23616/134 "2025-12-22T08:46:30Z")

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This was all debunked before. While the snapshot does not specifically mention frontend, the images and breakdown on the forum suggest so.

> Overall, there were multiple functions involved in V3’s creation. These functions included Data Science, Risk Management, QnA, Dev Ops, Smart Contract Engineering, **Front-end Engineering** , Back-end Engineering, Product, and Design.

> [@Aave Cowswap Integration- Tokenholder Questions](https://governance.aave.com/t/aave-cowswap-integration-tokenholder-questions/23530/116):
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> - The interface was payed for on the retroactive funding.
> - The inteface was very actively marketed as “decentralized interface”, with huge emphasis on `app.aave.com`, only pointing to some ipfs hash for most of the time.
> - if you look at the contributions over time, you will see that other SP contributors (tokenlogic, aci, bgd-labs) have contributed significantly to various features, on the common “decentralized interface”.
> - Aside from direct contributions, tremendous effort has flown into supporting Avara on integrating new ecosystem contracts like governance v3, umbrella, new stk tokens, migrations(v2-\>v3, stkv1 → stkv2)
> - In addition to these direct contributions, DAO SPs have spent a good amount of time improving paraswap, by optimizing routes and contributing to [paraswap-dex-lib/src at master · VeloraDEX/paraswap-dex-lib · GitHub](https://github.com/VeloraDEX/paraswap-dex-lib/tree/master/src) directly integrating GHO-GSMs and boosting Balancer boosted pool usage

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