Never a dull day indeed. Today was among the busiest in recent DeFi memory, featuring a hack worth eight figures, a token dump worth upwards of eleven from none other than Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin himself, a significant update on institutional adoption from Aave, and a proposal on Uniswap’s governance forums to turn $UNI into a governance token — a proposal once again courtesy of Vitalik. Rapid reactions, roughly in chronological order (assuming my memory isn’t totally fried from today): Aave announces permissioned institutional trial pool I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Ajit Tripathi, the head of institutional business development for Aave (who is also an excellent Twitter follow BTW) about the initiative earlier this morning. The key quote from him is that the test pool is in an “advanced” state, and will likely be live and ready for production as a permissioned market with KYC/AML features soon.