?Aave’s whitepaper describes Aave as a ‘decentralized non-custodial liquidity protocol.’ It first appeared as ETHLend, a peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2017 by Stani Kulechov, a law university student, and afterwards rebranded Aave in 2020 at the time it switched towards the liquidity pool design.If a vote on a new allocation strate