52.58% approval on a $51M budget request, with allegations that Aave Labs-linked addresses tipped the vote — and since then BGD Labs, ACI, and Chaos Labs have all announced exits over governance disagreements tied directly to this roadmap. Three of the protocol's most critical independent contributors gone in under two months. Aave's $26B TVL and $100M+ annualized revenue aren't at risk tomorrow, but shipping v4 without the team that built and maintains v3 is a very different engineering problem than the roadmap acknowledges.

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