Thank you for this TEMP CHECK.
But I will vote NAY on this one.
For the following reasons:
Last year AaveLabs asked for 550k as seen here [TEMP CHECK] Aave Events & Sponsorship Budget
From these 550k, 250k surplus was being used in 2024.
Now AaveLabs is asking again for a whopping 850k (62,5% more than last year), for the same events when compared to last years proposal (see the link above).
That results in a total of 1.1m$
Whats the rationale behind needed 62.5% more than last year?
Why should be DAO be paying for this?
Whats the benefit for the DAO?
From what I know some DAO member were invited to rAAVE, but thats it, am I right?
Maybe others can confirm.
If costs for all these events got so expensive, could you provide a list of last years events and this years events and show in a table the costs for each? Avara should be able to provide this (or AaveLabs) as both need to have an accounting department responsible to book these things obviously for tax departments and other authorities.
While I agree that some events might be useful, most of them haven’t had any kind of impact on AAVE or the DAO.
For example rAAVE may be fun and people connect it with Aave it doesn’t end up in additional revenue for the DAO.
Also SheFi is a great initiative, but hasn’t had any impact on the DAO.