DeFi & NFT
By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Where the $2 Million Floor Came From. None of this came out of nowhere. Back in December 2025, a temp check on Aave's governance showed…
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Avalanche Launch and the Refocusing Argument. Aave recently launched on Avalanche, which makes the "refocusing, not retreating" framing easier…
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Community Vote Still Pending. The proposal is still waiting on community approval before anything gets executed.
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Aave wants out of six chains. The protocol's risk management service LlamaRisk has put forward a proposal to wind down V3 markets on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and…
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LlamaRisk, working alongside other Aave service providers, put together a proposal to offboard 50 low-use reserves and 21 matured Pendle principal token listings.
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Liquidity on Aptos has dropped 94% over six months. Quarterly revenue there came in below $1,000.
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None of this came out of nowhere. Back in December 2025, a temp check on Aave's governance showed overwhelming support for two specific changes: raising reserve factors on…
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So by the time LlamaRisk filed the current ARFC, the direction was already pretty well established. The community had already said it wanted to tighten standards.
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Aave founder Stani Kulechov weighed in on the broader picture. Per Kulechov, the moves are meant to cut economic and technical risk in line with the new Aave Risk Framework and…
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More context: Ondo Finance Open Interest Jumps 16% in 24 Hours as Traders Bet on Breakout
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Aave recently launched on Avalanche, which makes the "refocusing, not retreating" framing easier to sell. The protocol isn't pulling back from multichain.
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The revenue floor is a real change in how Aave thinks about expansion. Before, the protocol was fairly aggressive about deploying on new chains, probably because the cost of…
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And it's not just revenue. LlamaRisk's framework also looks at bridge risk and chain-level monitoring capacity.
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The proposal is still waiting on community approval before anything gets executed. Aave's governance structure means stakeholders have to sign off, which is both a check on the…
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