Long before we unveiled Aera to the world in October 2022, we prioritized development of a robust security framework to fortify our vaults against potential risks. We did so without compromising on our promise to offer programmable vaults fully owned and controlled by their owners.

Aera’s initial use case was as a treasury management solution for DAOs, but the flexibility of Aera’s configurable, non-custodial vaults has provided fertile ground for the emergence of other new and innovative use cases.

Stablecoins have become a fundamental component in the DeFi ecosystem, providing a stable store of value crucial to various financial activities. If properly managed, they can also be a source of yield.

In today's DeFi landscape, DAOs and others managing onchain treasuries are constantly seeking ways to achieve risk-managed yield. Aera, a treasury management protocol, addresses this need by offering a fully automated, non-custodial treasury solution designed to optimize passive yield, automate operations, grow liquidity, and more.

Protocols continually seek innovative solutions to enhance liquidity and optimize treasury management. Building on our recent blog post covering how Liquidity Mining and Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) can drive long-term protocol growth, today we explore how these strategies can be executed through Aera.

Exploring the importance of onchain liquidity for protocol growth and discussing the mechanics, benefits, and challenges of both POL and Liquidity Mining.

Among the various strategies available on Aera, low-liquidity asset diversification is notable for its ability to diversify a treasury’s assets with minimal slippage and price impact. In an environment characterized by dynamic market shifts and the burgeoning prominence of DeFi treasuries, thoughtful and deliberate treasury management becomes increasingly crucial, particularly for low-liquidity assets.

Recently, Aera was engaged to produce a research report for Arbitrum's Treasury and Sustainability Working Group, with the goal of better understanding the price impact and efficiency of grant distributions. This blog post reviews some of the insights from the report related to grant funding efficiency.

Today, the Aera protocol enters our general availability phase and shares news of our $8 million token sale. We’ve been hard at work for the past year piloting the protocol with some of DeFi’s leading DAOs and adding essential features to make autonomous onchain treasury management completely seamless. Here’s where we’re at today: