Aave proposal seeks roughly 52,000 AAVE net increase in Safety Module reward allowances

Why the allowance update is being proposed

According to the proposal, Safety Module rewards accrue continuously, but claims only succeed while the relevant module has enough approved AAVE available from the Ecosystem Reserve. If that allowance is depleted, claims revert until governance refreshes it.

TokenLogic says stkAAVE is now the urgent case. Based on on-chain reads taken at block 25,843,055 on August 27, 2026 at 00:45 UTC, the current allowance covers only 8.4% of rewards that stakers have already earned. The proposal adds that the three largest unclaimed positions together total 4,707.98 AAVE, already more than the existing allowance, meaning only a small number of claims could exhaust it.

How the new stkAAVE allowance would be calculated

Rather than using a single fixed replacement figure, the proposed stkAAVE allowance would be computed when the payload executes. TokenLogic breaks that amount into three parts: a constant backlog gap of 50,500 AAVE, the rewards accrued since the August 27 snapshot, and 90 days of forward emissions.

At the snapshot, 55,042.63 AAVE was claimable versus an allowance of 4,634.78 AAVE, leaving a gap of 50,407.85 AAVE that was rounded up to 50,500. The proposal says any claims made between the snapshot and execution would reduce both the backlog and the live allowance by the same amount, preserving the sizing logic.

The accrual since the snapshot would be read on-chain using the current emission rate and elapsed time. At the unchanged rate cited in the proposal, that ongoing accrual is 150 AAVE per day. The forward buffer is another 90 days of emissions, equal to 13,500 AAVE at the same rate.

Sunset modules would be adjusted in both directions

The proposal also revises allowances for three modules that no longer emit rewards. For stkABPT v1, TokenLogic says the module is already short by 274.75 AAVE, so the allowance would be brought to 1,250 AAVE as a one-time top-up intended to fully cover remaining claims.

For stkGHO, the remaining difference to its residual claimable rewards is described as just 0.16 AAVE, and the proposal includes a small extra buffer to avoid rounding issues on the final claims. In the opposite direction, stkAAVEwstETHBPTv2 would be cut to 2,500 AAVE because its current allowance is said to be 7.4 times larger than the amount it can still owe.

That reduction would release roughly 14,400 AAVE of unused approval, which the proposal estimates at about $1.83 million using a reference price of $127 per AAVE. TokenLogic says the lower allowance would not affect any eligible claimant.

Execution plan and next steps

The technical change is designed as a single Ethereum payload that calls the Ecosystem Reserve controller to update allowances for all four modules. As described in the specification, each allowance would first be reset to zero and then set to its new amount, following the same pattern used in AIP 439.

In net terms, the proposal estimates a standing approval increase of about 52,000 AAVE. That total is made up of roughly 66,100 additional AAVE for stkAAVE, plus 326 for stkABPT v1 and 9 for stkGHO, offset by a 14,378 AAVE reduction for stkAAVEwstETHBPTv2.

TokenLogic also outlines an ongoing maintenance plan: review Safety Module allowance coverage every quarter and, while stkAAVE continues emitting, size future direct AIPs to the measured backlog plus 90 days of emissions at the rate then in force. If coverage drops below the backlog plus 30 days of emissions between reviews, the firm says it would submit an off-cycle top-up.