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ARA Finance

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Summary

ARA Finance is an Avalanche-based DeFi project that launched in December 2021, combining a yield farm (Goose/Masterchef fork) with a decentralized reserve currency protocol modeled on Olympus DAO (OHM). The project underwent a failed v1 launch, published a postmortem acknowledging market collapse, and pivoted to a v2 with minimal transparency. As of 2026, the protocol is effectively defunct with a TVL of approximately $1,500, a token classified as a dead coin, and an anonymous team that ceased meaningful communication.

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    Timeline(7 events)

    2021-12-20

    ARA token launched on Avalanche. RugDoc review conducted prior to launch flagged no Masterchef timelock and per-block emission antipattern.

    RugDoc project reviews (AraFinance, AraFinance Token)

    2021-12-21

    ARA Finance DApp (farm and reserve currency protocol) launched on Avalanche.

    RugDoc project review

    2022-01-01

    OlympusDAO and its Avalanche-based forks began suffering cascading losses as the DeFi 2.0 bull market reversed; OHM halved within hours after a major token holder dumped $11 million.

    Protos — DAO Leader Causes Cascade Across Rebase Tokens

    2022-01-01

    ARA Finance v1 Postmortem published on Medium, acknowledging the ARA market had 'turned down' and the v1 farm had failed despite fee-free structure.

    Ara Finance — Medium

    2022-01-01

    ARA Finance team announced transition to v2 via Medium article 'ARA aka ARA v2,' with no detailed accounting of v1 treasury or developer actions.

    Ara Finance — Medium

    2022-12-28

    ARA token recorded a variant all-time high of $0.003674 on CoinPaprika, after which price declined to effectively zero.

    CoinPaprika — ARA Token

    2026-05-01

    Protocol TVL stands at approximately $1,500 with no change over 30 days. Token has zero active exchange listings and is classified as a dead coin on CoinRanking.

    AlphaGrowth; CoinRanking
    Provenance & Audit Trail
    Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chainsrc:defillama

    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.

    full audit log →version history →

    model: claude-sonnet-4-5

    generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:40 AM

    last updated: 5/30/2026, 12:21:21 PM

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