‍Aave’s whitepaper describes Aave for a ‘decentralized non-custodial liquidity protocol.’ It first appeared as ETHLend, a peer-to-peer lending platform Started in 2017 by Stani Kulechov, a legislation university student, and later on rebranded Aave in 2020 at the time it switched on the liquidity pool product.AAVE may be the native governan