AAVE

AAVE is the most widely used DeFi lending platform, allowing you to supply crypto assets, borrow against collateral, and earn yield, all seamlessly integrated with Avalanche. Deployed Aave V4 Hub & Spoke on Avalanche July 2026, 335M+ TVL there — significant despite being a global protocol.

Ecosystem

AAVE is listed in Cascade (/tags/cascade), Team1's ecosystem map for Avalanche (/tags/avalanche), under the category "DeFi". Directory signals at capture: 12 community votes; directory status "live"; GitHub 6786 stars / 17506 commits.

Enrichment note

This entry is a SHELL: it was created from the Cascade ecosystem directory (captured 2026-08-28) plus the §B2 ranking pass, and its prose above is directory-sourced rather than editorial. Nothing here has been independently verified beyond the listed sources. It exists so the graph can reason about AAVE and resolve its handle; it should be replaced with a researched About body before it carries coverage.

Recent developments

• 2026-09-04 — Base Credit Markets Surge 31% as Outstanding Loans Reach $2.3B — Jesse Pollak highlighted @HorinekPM's dashboard showing Base credit markets grew 31% year-over-year, with $2.3B in outstanding loans and 75% utilization. (@jessepollak)
• 2026-09-16 — Aave to Launch RWA Lending Hub on Avalanche With Tether's USAT — Aave's new RWA Hub on Avalanche will let institutions borrow stablecoins using tokenized financial assets as collateral, with Tether's USAT as a primary dollar liquidity sour… (@avax)
• 2026-09-16 — Aave v4 Selects Avalanche as First Expansion Chain, CEO Says — Aave CEO Stani Kulechov said Avalanche was chosen as the first expansion network for Aave v4, citing its onchain-finance community and institutional interest in its tech. (@avax)
• 2026-09-23 — Avalanche Summit Recap: NYSE, NY Life, Aave and Paxos Lead Institutional Wave — Avalanche published a roundup of Summit New York announcements, including NY Life's first tokenized fund, Aave's RWA lending market, Janus Henderson as validat… (@avax)
• 2026-09-25 — Coinbase Tokenized Stocks Go Live on Aave V4 on Base — Users can now borrow USDC against eligible Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Aave V4, deployed on Base, the announcement confirmed on Sept. 25. (@base)
• 2026-10-06 — Avalanche Tokenized U.S. Treasuries Reach 545M, Up 4x Year-Over-Year — Avalanche's official account reports tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the network hit 545M in Q3 2026, a 4x year-over-year increase and up 14% in the quarter alone. (@avax)
• 2026-10-07 — Base Partners With SMBC Nikko on Japan Institutional DeFi Gateway — Base is partnering with SMBC Nikko, the securities arm of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, to build an institutional DeFi Gateway for the Japanese market. (@base)
• 2026-10-06 — Superform Launches Earn Stocks Yield on MAG7 Equities via Base — Superform rolled out Earn Stocks, letting users earn DeFi yield on NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL and other MAG7 equities on Base, powered by Aave. Base lead Jesse Pollak amplified the la… (@jessepollak)
• 2026-10-13 — Base Rolls Out Earn & Borrow Stablecoin Yield and Lending Stack — Base announced Earn & Borrow on Oct. 13, 2026, an end-to-end stack that lets apps offer customers stablecoin yield and loans against their crypto. Details remain limited. (@base)

Coverage

• 2026-09-29 — Aave V4's Hub-and-Spoke Design on Avalanche, and Its Planned RWA Market
• 2026-09-29 — What New York Life, Aave, Paxos and NYSE Actually Said at Avalanche Summit NYC