Aave's DAO governance has recently been embroiled in quite a few controversies—disputes between the official Labs team and the decentralized autonomous organization have come to light. This matter is worth a close look because it deeply reflects the real challenges faced by governance in current DeFi projects.

Many people are still not very familiar with how DAOs operate, but through this controversy involving Aave, we can see the governance logic more clearly: for the team and DAO to work together healthily, the core must be **alignment of interests**. How to achieve alignment? When team members hold a large amount of project tokens, their interests naturally become closely aligned. Once the team’s wealth and token value are tightly linked, their decisions will be more aligned with the long-term interests of the community and token holders. This is the most straightforward yet effective mechanism to prevent governance internal conflicts.