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Aave V4 saw over $300 million in new deposits this week, bringing its total to nearly $750 million. The decentralized lending platform allows users to earn yield or provide liquidity. Deposit growth is a key metric for engagement in decentralized finance applications, according to data shared in a recent update.
Five DeFi tokens—Aave, Aster, Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Compound—showed gains, driven by different factors. Aave's price rose 18.88% with $18.05B in deposits. Aster's volume surged 149.58% with minimal price change. Hyperliquid, largest by market cap, has less than a third of its supply circulating. Lighter has the highest volume-to-market-cap ratio. Compound has no future unlocks. Investors should consider TVL, volume, and supply data.
Aave, a DeFi protocol, reached $1 trillion in cumulative loans on 25 February 2026, marking a first in the industry. Its total value locked (TVL) fell 74% from an October 2025 high of $45.81 billion to a June 2026 low of $11.86 billion, but has since recovered to $17.69 billion. Aave V3 holds 96.6% of the protocol's TVL, with Ethereum anchoring $14.27 billion. The protocol also launched Aave Horizon for institutional real-world asset (RWA) services, processing $1 billion in tokenized assets with
Over the past 7 days, alphai's AI scored 3 news stories mentioning AAVE-USD (Aave). Coverage has skewed bullish: 2 bullish, 1 neutral, and 0 bearish.
Recent AAVE-USD coverage spans crypto and technology.
Significant inflow suggests growing user confidence and could boost Aave token price.
Sharp price rise on high TVL and volume suggests temporary rally.
The milestone highlights Aave’s dominant market share and could attract further institutional capital.
The story is a DeFi execution-risk case study tied to Aave’s interface and routing, not a protocol exploit.
Exploit-driven bad debt and liquidity stress likely keep AAVE under pressure until rsETH markets and liquidity conditions stabilize.
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Aave V4 saw over $300 million in new deposits this week, bringing its total to nearly $750 million. The decentralized lending platform allows users to earn yield or provide liquidity. Deposit growth is a key metric for engagement in decentralized finance applications, according to data shared in a recent update.
2 min readFive DeFi tokens—Aave, Aster, Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Compound—showed gains, driven by different factors. Aave's price rose 18.88% with $18.05B in deposits. Aster's volume surged 149.58% with minimal price change. Hyperliquid, largest by market cap, has less than a third of its supply circulating. Lighter has the highest volume-to-market-cap ratio. Compound has no future unlocks. Investors should consider TVL, volume, and supply data.
3 min readAave, a DeFi protocol, reached $1 trillion in cumulative loans on 25 February 2026, marking a first in the industry. Its total value locked (TVL) fell 74% from an October 2025 high of $45.81 billion to a June 2026 low of $11.86 billion, but has since recovered to $17.69 billion. Aave V3 holds 96.6% of the protocol's TVL, with Ethereum anchoring $14.27 billion. The protocol also launched Aave Horizon for institutional real-world asset (RWA) services, processing $1 billion in tokenized assets with
3 min readA trader attempting to buy AAVE tokens with about $50M in USDT executed a high-slippage swap via the Aave interface and CoW DAO routing, receiving only 324 AAVE. Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the interface warned of extraordinary price impact and required explicit confirmation. CoW DAO and Aave said there was no exploit; Aave plans to refund about $600,000 in fees.
3 min readAccording to DeFiLlama, Aave’s TVL fell about $8B from roughly $26.4B to $18.6B after a $293M Kelp DAO hack. Lookonchain said attackers used drained 116,500 Kelp DAO rsETH tokens as collateral on Aave v3, creating about $195M bad debt and triggering withdrawals. AAVE fell nearly 20% to about $89.5. Aave froze rsETH markets on v3 and v4.
2 min readBybit expanded its UTA Loan Interest-Free Borrowing program, adding 22 assets so eligibility now covers 24 assets total, including BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and stablecoins USDT and USDC. Bybit says zero interest applies for qualified automatic UTA borrowing triggered by unrealized losses on Perpetual or Futures positions within set limits, with capacity tied to VIP tiers.
3 min readAmberCN reports a wallet linked to crypto market maker Amber Group withdrew about $9.97 million from Binance, transferring ENA, AAVE, ETH, BNB, and LINK. The amounts were 38.89M ENA ($3.58M), 28,262 AAVE ($2.52M), 1,140 ETH ($2.18M), 2,017 BNB ($1.20M), and 59,202 LINK ($490k).
5 min readAAVE is consolidating around $91.28, with 24-hour volume of about $242.2M and market cap near $1.4B, according to CoinMarketCap. Analysts cited by Michael van de Poppe expect a bullish breakout if support holds, targeting $170-$180. Aave V4 Prime Hub active loans hit a record high, per Aave’s X post.
3 min readAAVE fell about 7% overnight to an intraday low near $90.80, trading below the 7-day, 20-day and 200-day moving averages. The article cites $88.17 (50-day SMA) and $88.38 support, with downside levels at $85.82 and $87.22. Upside levels include $93.35, $95.91 and $100.88. It also references Binance futures positioning and open interest changes.
4 min readThe article says Aave’s AAVE token is trading near $91.04 and is testing the lower support of an ascending channel formed since late June, based on a 4-hour AAVE/USDT chart (Binance/TradingView) and CoinGlass data. It cites liquidation flows showing more long than short liquidations. It lists bullish triggers as a close above $102.31 and bearish as a close below $87.53.
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