According to dlnews, Aave DAO and MakerDAO have disagreements over the profit-sharing agreement, and MakerDAO's lending protocol Spark (a branch of Aave v3) has been accused of violating the agreement with Aave DAO.

In February 2023, Phoenix Labs, the company behind Spark, proposed to share 10% of the protocol’s profits over two years, with Spark expected to pay Aave a total of $2 million, according to representative Marc Zeller. But Zeller said Spark did not fulfill its obligations under the agreement and the actual revenue share was closer to 1%, mainly due to some creative accounting operations by MakerDAO.