Aave News Today: Why AAVE Is Up – 04 October 2026

• On 2 October 2026, Aave Labs proposed a memberless Cayman Islands foundation to hold the Aave trademark and intellectual property. • The foundation phase 1 would not immediately transfer trademarks, domains or codebase, requiring separate governance votes. • Aave founder Stani Kulechov tied the initiative to the “Aave Will Win” framework on 2 October 2026. • TokenLogic proposed raising GHO borrow rates by 25 basis points on two Aave V3 Ethereum instances. • Ethereum Core GHO rate would rise from 4.25% to 4.50% APR; Ethereum Prime from 2.75% to 3.00%. • Reports on 3 and 4 October cited an alleged $155 million USDC transfer from Aave to an unidentified wallet, unverified.