Chaos Labs ended its three-year risk management engagement with Aave after saying a proposed $5 million budget would still leave the firm operating at a loss. Omer Goldberg said key V3 contributor exits had doubled the workload and Aave V4 added new operational and legal burdens. Stani Kulechov said Chaos Labs also wanted to become Aave's sole risk manager and replace Chainlink price oracles in new deployments, and Aave Labs rejected both proposals to avoid vendor lock-in.