Aave Labs announced a structural change, integrating Avara into Aave Labs and discontinuing the Family iOS Wallet, with the aim of focusing on decentralized finance, simplifying the brand, reusing key structure, and reducing friction between the company and the Aave DAO at a time of greater regulatory clarity.
Aave Labs announced the discontinuation of the Avara brand and the consolidation of all product development and support under the single Aave Labs identity. In parallel, the company confirmed that the management of Lens Protocol was transferred to Mask Network in January 2026, while Aave Labs assumed an exclusively advisory role. The decision was presented as a deliberate reduction of operational scope to concentrate resources on its core products: Aave App, Aave Pro, and Aave Kit.
As part of this restructuring, Aave Labs announced that it will stop adding new users to the Family Wallet for iOS starting April 1, 2026. This move marks the beginning of a gradual transition away from consumer-facing wallet products toward a strategy more focused on infrastructure and integrated services within the Aave ecosystem.
Existing Family iOS wallet users will retain access to their accounts and features until April 2027. After that period, they will need to migrate to Aave’s official web interfaces via accounts.aave.com, where the user experience and account management will be centralized.
Aave Labs will retain the underlying infrastructure of Family Accounts and repurpose it to offer authentication and embedded wallet capabilities within its consolidated products. Instead of operating Family as a standalone app, this technology will be integrated as a white-label solution in the Aave App and Aave Pro, maintaining user self-custody of assets and supporting a more unified experience across the Aave ecosystem.
Why this change at Aave Labs?
The company presented the change as a prioritization of purpose-built DeFi workflows over a generic consumer wallet, with resource allocation shifting toward lending, borrowing, and related primitives. For users, there will be no new mobile add-ons after April 1, 2026, continued access until April 2027, and an eventual migration to Aave’s web interfaces.
Aave Labs positioned the consolidation as a response to friction with the Aave DAO over brand ownership and product scope, and as a step toward clarifying operational control following a contested governance episode in December 2025.
The company also cited the conclusion of the U.S. SEC investigation in December 2025 and obtaining MiCA authorization in Europe as factors creating a clearer regulatory environment for a narrower product focus.
For investors, product teams, and compliance officers, the immediate milestones to watch are the upcoming cessation of new mobile add-ons on April 1, 2026, and the mobile access cutoff in April 2027.
Repurposing Family Accounts in authentication and embedded wallet modules will likely reduce development duplication and concentrate regulatory and operational risk within Aave Labs’ primary product stack, while also shifting the balance of responsibility between the company and the DAO.
