Aave Labs Proposes Technical Asset Listing Framework for V3, V4 and Horizon

Overview

• Aave Labs published an Aave Request for Comment on Friday that lays out a unified Technical Asset Listing Framework to guide listings and parameter changes across Aave V3, V4 and Horizon.
• The framework defines eight technical review areas and requires a Chainlink price feed on the target chain with Capped Asset Price Oracle (CAPO) adapters for yield-bearing assets where needed.
• Token rules make strict ERC20-compliant behavior a baseline by banning fee-on-transfer, rebasing, ERC777 hooks, and other transfer logic that breaks predictable accounting.
• A new five-level access-control model forces documentation and classification of every privileged role such as owners, minters, pausers, blacklisters and bridge operators to measure role concentration and failure modes.
• The proposal sets pre-screening gates, separates factual findings from risk recommendations, mandates annual and event-triggered refreshes, and leaves final onboarding and parameters to the Aave DAO after a comment and coordination period.