Gas cost discussion

Governance
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+1 to @defidude comments.

:fire: _:fire: thoughts:

  • Spending the AAVE reserve on gas seems to be a low value activity for the protocol, helping out small users is great but we’re aiming to build a trillion dollar protocol over the next decade (Have to think big & long term imo).

  • The development overhead is definitely something worth considering - hopefully the massive gas costs will be improved over short/medium term (L2, ETH2, etc)

  • gasToken could be a viable middle ground.

  • As mentioned by DeFiDude - there could be some system where ‘by having x amount of AAVE held in the SM addresses get gas paid for’ but that just seems to help users who already have $ regardless.

Overall: Ethereum & other layer 2 techs currently have scalability as a high priority. On top of this, using traditional finance costs thousands of dollars instead of tens of dollars, seems like not a massive roadblock.

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