Seed-deposit requirement for new market listing
Aave v3's assessment for RD-F-071 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Aave v3 market listings require a governance AIP with payload that includes seed deposit initialization before borrow-enable. This is code-enforced via the governance payload executor. The v3-205 rsETH onboarding proposal is an example of a listing payload that includes reserve initialization. Seed deposit requirement is structurally present.
Sources #
- GitHubv3-205 rsETH Onboarding Proposal Reportaave-dao/aave-proposals-reports — market listing proposals include seed deposit payloads; v3-205 rsETH onboarding as exampleretrieved 2026-04-27
- T-10 Aave v3 Cat 4 — RD-F-071T-10 §2.3.2 Cat 4: seed deposits code-enforced for new marketsretrieved 2026-04-27
Methodology #
Determine whether market-listing governance or code requires a minimum seed deposit before borrow-enabling a new market.
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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol aave-v3 factor RD-F-071 score green collected_at 2026-04-27 23:28:46