Aave’s SVR fees sent to Chainlink are periodically converted into LINK through the Payment Abstraction system

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On a periodic basis, the Chainlink Network portion of SVR fees is sent into the Payment Abstraction system to be converted to LINK.

Chainlink SVR recently launched with Aave as its first user, including an initial 6-month discounted fee split of 65% to the Aave community and 35% to the Chainlink ecosystem.