Aave Governance V3 Activation Short
01Summary
This proposal executes the short executor component of Aave Governance v2.5 to v3 migration. It transfers permissions from v2 to v3 systems, upgrades governance voting asset implementations (AAVE, stkAAVE, aAAVE), activates the Aave Robot system, and transfers specific permissions for ARC and Base swap adapters. This is part of an atomic two-proposal migration (short and long executor) that will replace the current v2.5 governance with v3.
- Type
- protocol addition
Key changes
- Migrate ownership of v2 Executors to v3 Executors to prevent permissions lock(high)
- Upgrade implementations of Governance v3 voting assets (AAVE, stkAAVE, aAAVE) for v3 compatibility(high)
- Fund and activate Aave Robot system for optimal Governance v3 functioning(high)
- Transfer permissions for ARC and swap adapters on Base(medium)
- Temporarily grant permissions to Mediator contract to sync Level 1 and Level 2 executors during atomic execution(medium)
Notable concerns
- This is a resubmission of proposal 415 with consistent voting/proposition configurations
- Requires atomic execution of two separate proposals (short and long executor) for successful migration
- Currently running v2.5 governance will cease operation once both proposals execute
- Mediator contract temporarily receives permissions during migration process
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02Description
Simple Summary
This is the short executor part of the proposal for the migration of the Aave Governance v2.5 to v3, transferring all permissions from the v2 system to v3, executing all required smart contracts upgrades and different miscellaneous preparations.
Additionally, Aave Robot systems is activated, being requirement for the optimal functioning of Governance v3.
This Proposal is a resubmission of 415 with initial voting / proposition configurations consistent with current Aave GovernanceV2.
Motivation
v3 is the next iteration for the Aave governance smart contracts systems, controlling in a fully decentralized manner the whole Aave ecosystem.
Being a replacement on the currently running v2.5, a set of two proposals on v2.5 need to be passed to migrate one system to another: once both are passed and executed on the current governance smart contracts, these will stop working, and the new v3 ones will start operating.
Specification
A full specification can be found HERE, but as summary:
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2 governance proposals need to be created: one running on the Level 1 Executor (Short Executor) and another on the Level 2 Executor (Long Executor).
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As both proposals need to be atomically executed, a
Mediatorcontract will temporarily receive certain permissions, in order to sync both Level 1 and Level 2. -
High-level, the proposals do the following:
- Migrate the ownership of the v2 Executors to the v3 Executors, in order to avoid any possible permissions lock.
- Upgrade the implementations of the Governance v3 voting assets (AAVE, stkAAVE and aAAVE), to make them compatible with the new system.
- Fund Aave Robot.
- Transfer permissions for ARC and for swap adapters on Base.
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Implementation: V2Ethereum, V3Ethereum, V3EthereumLong, Avalanche, Polygon, Base
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Tests: Ethereum, EthereumLong, Avalanche, Polygon, Base
Copyright
Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.
03Mismatch analysis
The proposal description is explicitly scoped as 'the short executor part' of a larger multi-payload, multi-chain migration (Level 1/Short Executor only, with a separate Level 2/Long Executor proposal covering additional logic). The decoded calldata shows exactly two low-level calls, both on Ethereum mainnet (chain 0x1), each invoking an executor's execute() function — a standard Aave governance pattern where the executor delegatecalls into a payload contract that contains the actual granular logic (ownership transfers, asset implementation upgrades, robot funding, etc.). This is consistent with the architecture described and linked to in the proposal (EthShortV2Payload.sol and EthShortV3Payload.sol), and matches the claim that only the short-executor scope is included here (no Avalanche/Polygon/Base/Long-executor actions appear, which is expected since those are handled by separate payloads/proposals per the specification). Because the calldata only shows the top-level execute() calls and not the internal payload logic, we cannot independently verify every granular claim (e.g., exact permission transfers or specific asset upgrades), so confidence is medium rather than high. However, nothing in the visible calldata contradicts the description, and the omitted internal detail is a case of legitimate summarization typical for this proposal architecture, not a withheld or misleading action. No value, target, or scope mismatches were found between the prose and the decoded top-level actions.
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x8371…aa6f
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- fallback()
- Arguments
{}- Calldata
- Target
- 0x3215…8942
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- execute(address)
- Arguments
{ "0": "0x44B4221c950fCf23A40e68dEa29feD0bB88893a9" }- Calldata
05Tally
Summed from votes
06Voters
| Voter | Choice | % of total | Rationale | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 570x57ab…2922 | For | 144.3K | 22.39% | — | 3y ago |
| 320x329c…3ed4 | For | 102.9K | 15.97% | — | 3y ago |
| 070x0703…961b | For | 86.8K | 13.47% | — | 3y ago |
| 130x13bd…8548 | For | 60K | 9.31% | — | 3y ago |
| 230x2331…7e73 | For | 60K | 9.31% | — | 3y ago |
| 2C0x2cc1…4df1 | For | 43.7K | 6.78% | — | 3y ago |
| B90xb933…8dd1 | For | 42.6K | 6.61% | — | 3y ago |
| EZezr3al.eth0x8659…7d0e | For | 38.1K | 5.91% | — | 3y ago |
| 870x8787…ea52 | For | 21.2K | 3.29% | — | 3y ago |
| 730x732a…b848 | For | 21K | 3.26% | — | 3y ago |
| E40xe459…e666 | For | 20K | 3.10% | — | 3y ago |
| 180x1855…98ba | For | 3.6K | 0.55% | — | 3y ago |
| F10xf13c…6dd3 | For | 156 | 0.02% | — | 3y ago |
| EA0xea17…6676 | For | 38.6 | 0.01% | — | 3y ago |
| DF0xdf06…4977 | For | 27.3 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| 700x70df…1889 | For | 1 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| A50xa5fe…9906 | For | 0.3 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| A00xa0ef…2d56 | For | 0.3 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| 240x24a0…c143 | For | 0.1 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| E00xe023…cbe1 | For | 0 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| 670x67b5…930f | For | 0 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| 3B0x3b42…9293 | For | 0 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
| 5A0x5a21…05c5 | For | 0 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
07Forum
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