[Direct-to-AIP] September 2025 - Funding update

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title: [Direct-to-AIP] September 2025 - Funding update
author: @TokenLogic
created: 2025-08-13

Summary

This publication presents the September Funding Update, consisting of the following key activities:

  • Bridge funds to Ethereum;
  • Create 2M USD Allowance for AAVE buybacks;
  • Consolidate asset holdings; and,
  • Create Allowances to support Operations.

Motivation

This publication balances near term operational needs and consolidates assets holdings, whilst ensuring various incentives programs are adequately funded.

Ethereum

With @bgdlabs upgrading the GHO reserve on the Core instance, GHO’s revenue is now received more frequently instead of when users repaid debt. As a result, accrued fees were realised resulting in 2,965,399.19 aEthGHO being received by the Treasury.

Screenshot 2025-08-10 at 12.34.39

The Aave DAO is able to fund the next Merit Allowance from existing GHO holdings and therefore, within this proposal does not need to acquire any GHO from secondary markets. Merit is $275k per week at 14.3M GHO per year. A new Allowance is to be created ensuring the ACI team has sufficient funding to continue distributing rewards to sGHO holders.

As part on routine operations, certain asset holdings are to be converted to USDC. In this months update, several smaller holdings are to be exchanged for USDC and deposited into Aave.

The CRV held within the Treasury are to be sent to the ALC safe and converted to sdCRV.

Avalanche

On Avalanche, the AFC is to support the migration of DAO funds from v2 to v3 and in doing so, DAI is to be exchanged for USDC before being deposited into v3 to benefit from the ongoing AVAX incentive campaign.

Screenshot 2025-08-10 at 14.12.15

Optimism

For Optimism, where lower deposit yield is available relative to Avalanche, funds are to be bridged back to Ethereum to support the DAO’s operations. sUSD will be exchanged for USDCn and bridged back to Ethereum via the AFC whilst other assets will be bridged directly via the AIP implementation. All assets are then deposited into Aave Protocol on Ethereum to earn yield.

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The OP rewards (1,185.24 OP) accrued by the DAO are to be claimed with an Allowance created to enable the AFC to receive all OP tokens which are then to be swapped to USDC and transferred to Base in support of the ongoing incentive campaign.

Polygon

Similar to previous months, assets are to be bridged to Ethereum to support the broader business. The image below shows the DAO’s asset holdings on Polygon. For assets that are not able to pass via the canonical
bridge, such as USDCn, the AFC will support bridging the asset(s) to Ethereum where they are to be deposited into Aave v3.

Screenshot 2025-08-10 at 14.55.04

Arbitrum

In support of the Aave Protocol Embassy (APE), the ARB currently held in the Treasury is to be transferred to the APE Safe where it will be used to participate in the governance of the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Specification

The below outlines the scope to be implemented via AIP.

Asset Consolidation

Bridge Assets to Ethereum

Transfer the following assets to Ethereum via AIP using the bridge adapter contracts.

Polygon Optimism
DAI wstETH
USDT USDT
USDC.e USDC.e
WPOL wETH
WBTC wBTC
MATICX

Polygon

To support bridging the USDC.n, an Allowance will be created enabling the USDCn to be bridged by the AFC from Polygon to Ethereum using Circles CCTP bridge.

  • Amount: 557,125 USDCn
  • Spender: AFC 0x22740deBa78d5a0c24C58C740e3715ec29de1bFa
  • Method: approve() above assets on the Aave Collector contract to the AFC address

Ethereum

Withdraw the following asset from Aave Protocol and swap to USDC as outlined in the table below:

Asset Amount Swap
DAI All USDC
GUSD 200k USDC
sUSD 50k USDC
tUSD 50k USDC
crvUSD All USDC
LUSD All USDC
USDP 50k USDC

Avalanche

Create Allowances to enable v2 assets to be transferred to the AFC, where asset will be exchanged for the corresponding asset on v3, and redeployed back into Aave Protocol to earn yield. The DAI shall be swapped to USDC and deposited into Aave v3 to benefit from the ongoing incentive campaign.

  • Amount: All USDC.e, USDT.e, DAI.e and wBTC.e
  • Spender: AFC 0x22740deBa78d5a0c24C58C740e3715ec29de1bFa
  • Method: approve() above assets on the Aave Collector contract to the AFC address

Optimism

Create an Allowance for the AFC to receive the sUSD and USDCn from the Collector Contract.

  • Amount: All USDCn, sUSD
  • Spender: AFC 0x22740deBa78d5a0c24C58C740e3715ec29de1bFa
  • Method: approve() above assets on the Aave Collector contract to the AFC address

The AFC is to swap sUSD to USDC and bridge USDCn via CCTP to Ethereum where it will be deposited into the Core instance.

Fund Ongoing Initiatives

Base Incentive Campaign

Claim outstanding OP rewards and create an Allowance for the AFC to receive OP from the Collector Contract.

  • Amount: OP
  • Spender: AFC 0x22740deBa78d5a0c24C58C740e3715ec29de1bFa
  • Method: approve() above assets on the Aave Collector contract to the AFC address

The AFC is to exchange the OP for USDC to be used in support of the ongoing Base incentive campaign.

Aave Protocol Embassy

Create an Allowance to transfers ARB from the Treasury on Arbitrum to the Aave Protocol Embassy SAFE to enable participation in Arbitrum’s governance.

  • Amount: 230,644 ARB
  • Spender: APE 0xAA43203167317DeeF8288095C44b84a686918d2E
  • Method: approve() ARB on the Aave Collector contract to the APE SAFE address

AAVE Buybacks

Create a 1M aEthUSDT and 1M aEthUSDC allowance for the Aave Finance Committee to support the AAVE Buyback program.

  • Asset: aEthUSDT 0x23878914EFE38d27C4D67Ab83ed1b93A74D4086a
  • Amount: 1M
  • Asset: aEthUSDC 0x98C23E9d8f34FEFb1B7BD6a91B7FF122F4e16F5c
  • Amount: 1M
  • Spender: AFC 0x22740deBa78d5a0c24C58C740e3715ec29de1bFa
  • Method: approve() aEthUSDT and aEthUSDC on the Aave Collector contract to the AFC address

Aave Liquidity Committee

  • Asset: aEthCRV 0x7B95Ec873268a6BFC6427e7a28e396Db9D0ebc65
  • Amount: 30,000
  • Spender: ALC 0xA1c93D2687f7014Aaf588c764E3Ce80aF016229b
  • Method: approve() aEthCRV on the Aave Collector contract to the ALC address

Merit Program

Create allowance for Merit, 3M aEthLidoGHO from Aave v3 Prime on Ethereum:

  • Asset: aEthLidoGHO: 0x18eFE565A5373f430e2F809b97De30335B3ad96A
  • Amount: 3M
  • Spender: Merit0xdeadD8aB03075b7FBA81864202a2f59EE25B312b
  • Method: approve() aEthLidoGHO on the Aave Collector contract to the Merit address

Gnosis Liquidity Mining Rewards

  • Asset: aGnoEURe: 0xEdBC7449a9b594CA4E053D9737EC5Dc4CbCcBfb2
  • Amount: 5,145
  • Spender: ACI0xdef1FA4CEfe67365ba046a7C630D6B885298E210
  • Method: approve() aGnoEURe on the Aave Collector contract to the ACI address

Reference: [ARFC] Set ACI as Emission Manager for Liquidity Mining Programs - #83 by ACI

Sonic Liquidity Mining Rewards

Asset: aSonwS 0x18eFE565A5373f430e2F809b97De30335B3ad96A
Amount: 100,000
Spender: MASiv nested safe0x565B80842eCEDad88A2564Ea375CE875Ed3bAdeC
Method: approve() aSonwS on the Aave Collector contract to the Masiv address.

Reference: [ARFC] stS Loop Incentive Program

Reimbursements

This reimburses gas costs incurred from AIP submissions.

Asset: aEthWETH 0x4d5F47FA6A74757f35C14fD3a6Ef8E3C9BC514E8
Amount: TBA
Spender: ACI 0xac140648435d03f784879cd789130F22Ef588Fcd
Method: approve() aEthWETH on the Aave Collector contract to the MASiv address.

This reimburses legal opinion costs incurred in supporting GHO’s first CEX listing.

Asset: aEthLidoGHO 0x18eFE565A5373f430e2F809b97De30335B3ad96A
Amount: 9,000
Spender: TokenLogic 0xAA088dfF3dcF619664094945028d44E779F19894
Method: approve() aEthLidoGHO on the Aave Collector contract to the TokenLogic address.

Disclosure

TokenLogic does not receive any payment for this proposal.

Next Steps

  1. Using the Direct-to-AIP process, submit AIP(s) for vote.

Copyright

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