PANews reported on December 26 that Evgeny Gaevoy, founder of Wintermute, posted on the X platform that as an early investor and governance participant in AAVE, Wintermute will vote against the current community proposal. His reasons include the lack of concrete governance mechanisms and unclear value capture logic. He criticized the mutual accusations of "malicious takeover" that have caused a rift in the community and believes that politicized accusations should cease, the discussion should be redirected, and the focus should be on resolving the fundamental issues of AAVE token value capture and governance structure.