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Seven days of DAO activity produced a buyback proposal from Lido, a major Aave V4 deployment decision, a painful restructuring at Balancer, tokenomics overhaul at Lista, ongoing fallout from the Resolv incident, and an ECB paper that put a number on something DeFi insiders have long suspected about governance concentration.  What happened in DAO proposals and discussions in the last 7 days 🧠👇 1. @LidoFinance DAO proposed a $20 million LDO token buyback, using 10,000 stETH from the treasury. 2. @aave DAO is voting on the updated Aave Will Win Framework. 3. Aave DAO approved to deploy Aave V4 on… pic.twitter.com/abt4JYiQ37 — Pink Brains (@PinkBrains_io) April 4, 2026 Here is what actually happened across the major DAO proposals and discussions in the past week. Lido and Aave Make Significant Treasury and Architecture Moves Lido Finance DAO proposed a $20 million LDO token buyback funded by 10,000 stETH from the treasury. Buyback proposals from major DeFi protocols are meaningful signals about how DAOs are thinking about token value and treasury deployment, and Lido using stETH, the protocol’s own staking product, to fund an LDO repurchase creates a direct link between the protocol’s revenue-generating asset and its governance token’s market support. Aave’s week was busy on two fronts. The DAO is currently voting on the updated Aave Will Win Framework, a strategic document that outlines the protocol’s competitive direction. Separately, the DAO approved deployment of Aave V4 on Ethereum, which is the more immediately consequential decision.  Aave V4 introduces a hub-and-spoke architecture where a shared liquidity hub connects to isolated spokes, each with its own risk parameters. That structure allows Aave to serve different risk profiles without fragmenting its core liquidity, which has been one of the harder engineering problems in money market design.  The approval moves one of DeFi’s largest protocols…

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