Aave Grants is the former community grants program of the Aave Protocol ecosystem that funded projects and teams building on the protocol before ceasing operations in early 2025. Aave Grants's Twitter Score is 59 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #14,816 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Aave Grants operated as Aave Grants DAO, a program approved and funded through Aave DAO governance in May 2021. It was previously backed by the Aave DAO and the Optimism ecosystem, channeling resources toward ideas, projects, and teams contributing to the protocol and its wider ecosystem. By December 2022, the program had awarded more than $4,395,000 in grants to builders on Aave.
Aave Grants announced in August 2024 that it would wind down and disband its team after having supported over 250 teams throughout its lifetime. A January 2025 update confirmed that Aave Grants DAO had fully ceased operations. Aave Grants has accumulated 11,648 followers as of September 2026 and published 3,550 posts over its active period.
Aave Grants has been mentioned by 111 accounts a total of 238 times. Aave Grants's portfolio includes Gitcoin, Xenophon Labs, Senate and Anthias Labs.
Who follows Aave Grants on X?
The accounts that follow Aave Grants include 205 founders, 80 angel investors, 69 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Stani, Arthur, sassal.ethacc, John Wang, DeFi Dad defidad.eth and Jesse Walden.