1. The Founding of Aave: The Birth of Aave’s VisionAave was originally conceived as ETHLend, a peer-to-peer lending platform. ETHLend was built on the Ethereum blockchain and aimed to allow users to borrow and lend cryptocurrency in a decentralized, permissionless way. However, after seeing the potential to make the platform more efficient and flexible, ETHLend rebranded to Aave in September 2018. Aave’s rebranding marked the beginning of a new era for the project, as the team introduced seve...