Aave is a decentralized money market protocol built on Ethereum that enables users to lend and borrow a wide range of cryptocurrencies through automated liquidity pools. Depositors supply assets to these pools to earn interest, while borrowers draw from the same pools by locking up collateral, with interest rates determined algorithmically based on supply and demand. The protocol's native token, AAVE, functions primarily as a governance token, granting holders the ability to vote on proposals that shape the protocol's development, parameters, and treasury allocations. This includes decisions about which assets to support, risk parameters, and protocol upgrades, giving the community collective control over the platform's evolution. Aave is widely recognized as one of the foundational lending and borrowing protocols in decentralized finance, pioneering the pooled-liquidity model that has become standard across DeFi. Beyond Ethereum, the protocol has expanded to multiple blockchain networks, operating across a broad multi-chain ecosystem. It also plays a role in yield farming, as users can supply assets to earn both interest and additional token rewards, and participates in various DeFi-focused index products that track the sector's leading protocols.
Mantle has put forward a proposal to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave, positioning the move as a direct response to bad…
Whales pulled billions within hours of the exploit, instantly draining liquidity across ETH, USDT and USDC markets — a bank-run-style unwind of the largest DeFi lending venue.
The reframing aims to give attackers legal title to the frozen ether under a 19th-century fraud doctrine — the move that lets victims reach the funds at all, before a May 6 Manhattan hearing.
Griff Green argues the real risk on Aave isn't smart-contract bugs — it's operational: leaked keys and social engineering from state-aligned attackers that lending markets haven't priced in.
The fight is over 30,765 ETH frozen after the April rsETH exploit on Arbitrum, and a ruling against Aave could let decades-old North Korea judgments reach any future recovered hack funds.
The legal theory is binary: either the recovered ether belongs to Aave's users, or it belongs to North Korea — and Aave argues attribution to Lazarus Group is unproven, with $327M in industry…
A coalition of crypto developers and security researchers has released a formal technical proposal aimed at protecting…
Industry leaders have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to a rescue plan for Aave users following a significant…
The KelpDAO rsETH exploit pulled $12B+ from Aave, and a cross-chain rescue — Solana lending USDT, AAVE going multi-chain — is now the recovery's defining bet.
The deposit is small relative to Aave's TVL, but the signal is structural: a Bitcoin staking protocol publicly committing idle stablecoin reserves to the largest DeFi lender during a post-exploit…
The loan from Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu is small in dollars but lands as a coordinated message: the Solana DeFi stack is being wired into Aave's liquidity, with AAVE itself coming to the…
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
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A $70M hardware-wallet drain lands the same week Treasury and the Senate try to cage the asset in policy. Bitcoin's macro thesis gets tested on two fronts at once.
Bitcoin sits near $64K while a $38M wallet exploit, a fading CLARITY Act, and a stubborn Fed crowd out every bullish headline.
A 594 BTC hardware-wallet drain, three Fed hawks, and an ETF rebound driven almost entirely by BlackRock. The bid is thinner than the tape suggests.
Bitcoin holds $64K while a Fed split, a Coldcard drain, and fading CLARITY Act odds test a sentiment already sitting in fear.
BlackRock's Fink frames the selloff as forced selling, but spot ETF outflows and a record Coinbase discount tell a more cautious story.
Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where users can lend and borrow cryptocurrency across 20 different assets as collateral.
Aave (AAVE) is categorised as: Base Native, Huobi ECO Chain Ecosystem, Avalanche Ecosystem.
The official Aave site is https://app.aave.com/.
Most recent Aave coverage: "Mantle proposes 30,000 ETH loan to Aave to clear bad debt from Kelp exploit!" — read at /en-US/a/mantle-proposes-30000-eth-loan-to-aave-to-clear-bad-debt.
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