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Financial research for on-chain institutions

We make on-chain finance legible.

Audit-grade financial reporting for DAOs and the people who allocate to them.

Independent research. Not affiliated with Aave DAO.

Our methodology

How we build on-chain financial statements.

Accountants set the treatment. Agents apply it to the chain. The framework produces the statement.

01

Accountants set the standard.

On-chain data is novel; the principles of accounting are not. Trained accountants document how each protocol transaction should be classified, recognized, and disclosed. Those rules are then encoded as skills that agents can execute.

02

Agents read the chain.

Equipped with those skills, agents scan the protocol contracts directly. They surface every relevant balance and transaction, categorize each entry against the standard, and aggregate the results at a specified block.

03

A protocol map is built.

Investors cannot allocate to what they cannot see. Using agent output and protocol documentation, every Safe, reserve, and contract that rolls into the statement is mapped. The map ships with the report, so any figure can be traced back to its on-chain source.

04

The framework is applied.

Categorized data is evaluated for recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure. The output is a GAAP-style financial statement. Matzu does not provide assurance on these reports.

The Balance Sheet Portal

A statement of financial position, in full.

AAave Protocol DAOConsolidated
Block #25,025,0777 May 2026
Aave Balance Sheet
Statement of Financial Position · As of 7 May 2026 · Block #25,025,077
ImportantCurrent address balances · will not reconcile against historical period closes.
I.Assets11 Lines
Treasury holdings — CollectorM2M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Ecosystem ReserveM2M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Committee SafesM2M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Accrued-to-treasury (V3 pools)M4M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Other addressesM2M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Subtotal — Treasury holdings$xx.xx
GHO accounting (issuance origin)M5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
GHO in RemoteGSM GhoReserveM5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
GSM reserves — GhoEthereum.USDCM5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
GHO in V3 pool inventoryM5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
GhoEthereum.GSM_USDTM5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Subtotal — GHO Assets$xx.xx
Total assets$740,038,690
II.Liabilities4 Lines
Stream obligations — CollectorM3M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Ecosystem Reserve native streamsM3M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Reserve deficits (V3 pools)M4M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
GHO outstandingM5M6Onchain · Verified$xx.xx
Total liabilities$615,144,387
III.EquityNet
Total equity$124,894,303
Note · 8 Disclosures Debt tokens held at DAO addresses are not counted as assets (Module 2 convention); per-pool Direct Minters represent user-borrowed GHO.
Figures may not sum due to rounding.
Fig. 2 · Functional view
Aave Protocol Map
6 contracts · 2 flows · Ethereum V3
1 Step 1 of 5
User calls supply() on the Pool contract.
§iii — on-chain verification
Every balance is a read.
Pinned · 2026·05·04 · block 25,025,077
Sum of on-chain balanceOf × oracle price, no dictionary filter.
M2 + M6
aave oracle
Address copied
§iv — informational
What we flagged.
5 disclosures · 4 modules · as of 2026·05·07
Informational only · not summed into balance sheet
pinned block
25,025,077
  • 01 — GAAP Style Financial Statements
  • 02 — Line-Item Balances
  • 03 — Mapped Protocol
  • 04 — Disclosures & Notes
01

A GAAP-style statement.

The output of the Matzu framework is a financial statement that reads like one — masthead, statement of position, sections, totals, footnotes. Familiar to anyone who has opened a 10-K, but reconstructed from chain and locked to a block.

What you're seeing
A statement of financial position locked to block #25,025,077, with totals tying to a delta of zero.
02

Every balance, on chain.

Each line is tagged by the module that produces it (M2 for direct treasury reads, M5 for GHO-specific accounting, M6 for cross-checks). Every figure carries an Onchain · Verified marker — meaning the value can be traced back to a specific contract balance at a specific block, with no off-chain proxies or estimates.

What you're seeing
Treasury holdings, ecosystem reserves, and GHO assets, classified and locked under the Q2 2026 framework.
03

The protocol, mapped.

Every Safe, reserve, and contract that rolls into the statement is mapped. The map ships with the report, so any figure can be traced back to the on-chain source that produced it — addresses, modules, and their relationships made legible.

What you're seeing
The full Aave protocol topology underlying the figures above — currently in development.
04

Disclosures. Notes.

Beyond the figures themselves, the portal surfaces governance disclosures, methodology notes, and edge-case treatments. Convention choices are cited inline. Every judgment that shapes a number is documented next to that number.

What you're seeing
Eight disclosures attached to this period close, including Module 2 conventions and Direct Minter treatment.
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