curious builders

AAVE Delegates

đź‘» Start:

AAVE Delegates was a website showing stats for governance delegates of the Aave protocol. This was at a time when the actual governance UI didn’t show much information (although I’m not sure the official UI even shows all of this information yet as of 2024?).

I learned a ton about how to interact with crypto rails but the project never went anywhere other than a learning exercise.

Some tech used:

  • Next.js - static website
  • The Graph - to fetch blockchain data
  • ethers.js - I initially tried fetching data “manually” by calling the actual smart contracts on the blockchain but then discovered it was much easier (and I could get more data) using an indexer like The Graph.
  • GitHub workflows - to rebuild the static site using new data once a day
  • Tailwind CSS - styling
Compounding interest over 5 years.