Aave DAO ARFC vote opens on Babylon BTC collateral for V4

The ARFC vote to onboard native BTC as collateral on Aave V4 through Babylon Labs' Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) is now live, per an announcement Babylon Labs shared and Aave amplified on X. If approved, users can lock native BTC on the Bitcoin chain and borrow supported assets against it on Aave V4.

• Babylon's proposal would deploy two new Aave V4 Spokes (the Babylon Spoke) to bring native BTC into the protocol's hub-and-spoke architecture
• The vote follows the proposal passing its temperature check with 299,743 AAVE in favor, and raised LLamaRisk-published risk settings The ARFC is a governance-stage discussion/decision point — nothing is final until the vote completes, but the outcome would mark the first native Bitcoin collateral path on V4 via trustless vault deployment.