Aave is a London-based technology company founded in 2017 by Stani Kulechov, focused on creating a transparent and open infrastructure for decentralised finance. Aave (fun fact: the name is taken from the Finnish word for "ghost") is a decentralized, open-source, and non-custodial liquidity protocol on Ethereum. Depositors earn interest by providing liquidity to lending pools, while borrowers can obtain loans by tapping into these pools with variable and stable interest rate options. Aave Protocol is unique in that it tokenizes deposits as aTokens, which accrue interest in real time. It also features access to Flash Loans and Credit Delegation as uncollateralized loan options.