Aave Fires Back at Kraken Report, Denies Selling Tokens at a 70% Discount. Source: TechGaged / Shutterstock Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave CEO strongly denies selling coins at a massive discount, pushing back against the recent Kraken investment report. Stani Kulechov wrote on Thursday that “there is NO WAY we’d sell AAVE at a 70% discount lol.” He went on to say that Aave is generating $134 million in annualized revenue at the moment, and all of it goes to the Aave DAO.