BGD Labs, the development group led by former CTO Ernesto Boado and responsible for the success of Aave V3, announced that they will cease their contributions to the protocol on April 1, 2026. They confirmed they will not renew their contract due to concerns over centralization, asserting that Aave Labs exerts absolute control over the brand and maintains an adversarial attitude toward external collaborations.
This breakdown in the relationship has a profound impact, as BGD Labs accuses the organization of prioritizing a V4 version developed in isolation, undermining the decentralized spirit of the DAO. Although founder Stani Kulechov thanked BGD for its technical leadership and dismissed immediate operational risks, the community fears that the loss of this technical group could weaken the security and open innovation that characterized the DeFi protocol.
In the short term, the market must monitor the transition to other code groups and the approval of a proposed $200,000 security retainer fund to cover emergencies until June. The critical next step will be to observe whether this conflict drives a governance reform or accelerates the migration of liquidity toward competing protocols that guarantee greater structural transparency.
Source:https://x.com/DefiIgnas/status/2024844595448946809
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