DeFi lending climbs to $26.1B as credit demand returns
Aave's grip on the market is the read: 48% share at $12.5B in active loans, with Morpho ($5.1B) and Spark ($2.1B) well behind.
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Aave's grip on the market is the read: 48% share at $12.5B in active loans, with Morpho ($5.1B) and Spark ($2.1B) well behind.
Stripping 10,000 lines of unused bridge code is housekeeping; the AI-only audit on lending V1.1 stress-tests whether specialised models can replace human reviewers.
The key test is whether swap flow can revive a loan book that has not grown in a year, while collateral suppliers remain exposed to depeg losses.
The 30-day no-liquidation window is the structural concession: standard crypto-backed loans routinely force-sell positions on short-term BTC volatility, and Binance is carving out retail-friendlier…
The rebound off a five-month decline carries a familiar shape: Aave alone holds 46.2% of the market, and one more print is needed before the recovery call sticks.
The company-level ban and nine-figure judgment land without the founders as parties, leaving their parallel federal cases to set the precedent on individual liability for the collapse.
Monad is just the third network on Aave V3, with $15M in first-year incentives from the Monad Foundation seeding the deployment.
Aave still holds 46.5% of the $20.4B outstanding — but the sector has shed $14.9B in active loans since January as leverage drains out of the largest protocols.
Ledn co-founder Mauricio Di Bartolomeo projected the bitcoin-backed lending market could grow to $1 trillion over the…
Three of crypto's most insider VCs co-led alongside Apollo, Circle and VanEck — a cap-table that signals Morpho's real target isn't DeFi natives, it's the institutions it already services through…