DeFi Deleveraging Hits AAVE – Analyst Explains Why Borrowing Demand Falls Off...
Aave entered April 2026 as DeFi’s largest lending protocol. By mid-month, it was managing the fallout from one of the most damaging exploits in its history — and the on-chain data is now revealing just how deeply the event disrupted the protocol’s core activity. Related Reading: Crypto Traders Just Moved $100 Billion In Gold Volume: Find Out What Is Driving The Rush The incident began at Kelp DAO, where attackers exploited a $293 million vulnerability and used the stolen tokens as collateral on Aave V3. Aave’s smart contracts were never breached — the protocol functioned....
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Surging volume, demand for flash loans and a strong rally in DeFi tokens pushed AAVE price to a new all-time high today. Aave (AAVE) price has been on an absolute tear for weeks and today the DeFi-token rallied to a new all-time high at $288.90. The decentralized finance protocol is one of the most popular in the market and the recent rally in the DeFi sector is one of the driving forces behind AAVE’s rally. AAVE/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingViewAt the start of 2021, AAVE price was trading at $83 and the recent rally appears to have bolstered the protocol’s surging total value locked,....
Ahead of the anticipated Ethereum merge slated between September 13 and 15, players like Aave are stocking up ETH. Some are even borrowing to increase their Ether balance. The DeFi platforms and others worry that user Ether borrowing may increase and leave the protocol prone to liquidity issues. They also worry that the increased borrowing […]
Total value locked on the decentralized borrowing and lending platform fell 16% in the past 24 hours. Annual percentage yields, or APY, on crypto borrowing and lending platform Aave have surged to record levels after capital withdrawals sent the decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol into a liquidity crunch. At the time of writing, variable APY on borrowing stablecoin Dai via Aave has surged to 24.88%, compared to approximately 6.50% the day prior.According to cryptocurrency researcher Igor Igamberdiev, blockchain personality Justin Sun was responsible for at least billions of dollars in....
Top decentralized finance (DeFi) coins such as Aave and Yearn.finance’s YFI have exploded higher over the past few days. Since bottoming last week when Bitcoin began to rapidly appreciate higher, top coins pertaining to DeFi have gained 100%. The DeFi rebound has caught many investors off guard. There were many analysts that were saying that […]
The Fantom market on Aave v3 adds just $30 each day to the DeFi protocol's treasury; developers are also concerned that the integration creates security risks. On Tuesday, Marc Zeller, integration lead at decentralized finance (DeFi) borrowing and lending protocol Aave, proposed to freeze the platform's v3 Fantom market. Created in 2018, Fantom is a directed acrylic graph smart contract platform that provides DeFi services and on which Aave is currently bridged. Zeller explained the rationale for removing the Fantom bridge:"After the Harmony bridge event and the recent Nomad bridge....