# Gauntlet is leaving Aave

**URL:** <https://governance.aave.com/t/gauntlet-is-leaving-aave/16700>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 21, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/gauntlet-is-leaving-aave/16700 "2024-02-21T15:14:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcZeller](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/governance.aave.com/marczeller/32/7124_2.png) [@MarcZeller](https://governance.aave.com/u/MarcZeller)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/gauntlet-is-leaving-aave/16700/3 "2024-02-21T17:13:55Z")

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Hello,

Some facts:

- the ACI [has voted YAE](https://snapshot.org/#/aave.eth/proposal/0x4518ee2130b2299fdf0827aa6a97b8211b3273f5b07b6f13b8141e5b9ad89e5f) the Arb related proposal because it’s not even an option in our mind to slow down the DAO because we think risk has no place doing finance and/or growth job.  
The other risk SP did what is expected, contact the relevant DAO service providers, coordinate and have the role assigned to a multisig with relevant parties.

- Chaos is selling licenses of their risk dashboard to protocol in the ecosystem; in our book, that’s widely different from directly providing risk service provider services.

- Gauntlet factually benefited, regardless of our personal opinion, of every ACI service at every request.

- Gauntlet is a [1B company that recently raised \>23m$](https://www.theblock.co/linked/137710/crypto-startup-gauntlet-raises-23-8-million-at-1-billion-valuation) there’s zero serious unicorn and zero company board in this world that would let the team quit their most prestigious client that spent \>10M$ on them on the past years and contributed greatly on their brand if there’s not more profitable and strategic alternative.

“Marc has not been nice to us” is a poor excuse to justify Gauntlet looking into external business opportunities. “we left because we were treated unfairly” was likely deemed a better alternative than exposing itself to be seen as mercenary.

The ACI always and still supports a dual risk team DAO; having two risk teams allowed today to have no noticeable impact on the DAO protocol and contribute to our resilience.

Therefore, at the ACI, we are considering a very prestigious slot with a current budget of 1.6m/year just opened, and we’re looking forward to the candidates’ risk teams’ proposals.

Onwards.

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