Aave Labs is a protocol foundation firm based in London, United Kingdom that aave labs, operating under parent company avara, is the london based software firm that develops the aave protocol, a decentralized non custodial liquidity and lending market deployed across ethereum and other chains. the protocol is governed by the aave dao and the aave token. aave issues the gho stablecoin and, in august 2025, launched horizon, a licensed lending market that lets institutions borrow stablecoins such as usdc, rlusd and gho against tokenized real world assets, including tokenized us treasury funds from superstate, centrifuge and circle. founder and ceo is stani kulechov. aave labs is a technology company, not a registered financial institution. They serve clients in United Kingdom, Global. Aave Labs is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/aave-labs.