Aave recently announced a new tokenomics overhaul featuring buybacks, and it’s not the only project out there making this move. 

Since Trump won the election, more crypto projects have introduced tokenomics overhauls, whether via revenue share or buybacks, viewing the regulatory climate as more accommodating for such experimentation. Arbitrum is another prominent name adopting a buyback program, signaling a shift toward implementing TradFi techniques as crypto projects attempt to boost their bottom line and better control their token supply.

With these tokenomic overhauls, chatter has erupted on X about whether or not buybacks are the right approach for strengthening digital assets. Opponents dismiss buyback-and-burn as an outdated, finite solution from TradFi, whereas supporters tout it as a direct demonstration of product-market fit and market dominance.