First cross-chain governance proposal passes on Aave

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On Monday, the primary cross-chain governance proposal handed on decentralized finance, or DeFi, borrowing and lending platform Aave (AAVE). According to DeFi Llama, the quantity of complete worth locked on Aave is roughly $12 billion. As advised by its builders, a proposal executed on Aave, which is constructed on the Ethereum (ETH) community, was despatched to the Polygon (MATIC) FxPortal. The mechanism then learn the Ethereum information and handed it for validation on the Polygon community. 

Afterward, the Aave cross-chain governance bridge contract obtained this information, decoded it and queued the motion, pending a timelock for finalization. The event crew wrote:

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The Aave cross-chain governance bridge is inbuilt a generic strategy to be simply tailored to function with any chain that helps the EVM [Ethereum Virtual Machine] and cross-chain messaging.

At present, the repository supports contracts bridging to Polygon and Arbitrum. On Aave, customers can submit Aave Enchancment Protocols, or AIPs, to focus on numerous options on the DeFi platform. In a single occasion final October, Gauntlet Community submitted an AIP to disable the borrowing capabilities for xSUSHI and DeFi Pulse Index tokens and an automatic market maker liquidity supplier token pair, citing alleged safety vulnerabilities. The proposal passed with 710,327 votes in favor 4 days after submission. 

Whereas some blockchain lovers took to social media to rejoice the technological milestone, not all stakeholders are followers of cross-chain developments. Final month, Vitalik Buterin famously gave the thumbs down to cross-chain purposes, citing irreversible breaches should a 51% attack occur on one community amidst cross-chain transactions. As well as, the Ethereum co-founder warned that the scaling of cross-chain purposes may additionally scale vulnerabilities, as hackers may cause system-wide contagions by launching 51% assaults on only one community, particularly in opposition to small-cap ones.