Today @Payward, the unified financial infrastructure platform that powers @krakenfx, announced that Digital Asset Special Investments I, LP, a Payward-affiliated investment fund, and its clients acquired AAVE tokens. The AAVE tokens were acquired through secondary market purchases, and Payward may make additional acquisitions in the future. Payward and Aave are also exploring opportunities to collaborate on future initiatives. As traditional and onchain markets converge, Payward believes DeFi is an integral part of the global financial system, with Aave playing a leading role in this evolution.

Collateral swaps are now available for Aave V4’s Ethereum, Base, and Avalanche markets on Aave Pro. Swap collateral from one asset to another without closing your position, powered by @CoWSwap.

Aave Labs and its co-authors have submitted a legal framework for decentralized lending protocols and non-custodial vaults to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force and Division of Corporation Finance. Today, we are releasing a public summary of our paper.

We’re aware of reports of a potential incident affecting Binance-affiliated wallets. Aave’s contracts are unaffected, and positions remain overcollateralized. As a precaution, all DAO-operated markets across V3 and V4 have been frozen. The freeze pauses new deposits and borrows, and users can still withdraw and repay their existing positions.

Over $10M in Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks deposited into Aave v4 on Base, up 514.5% over the past 30 days GOOGLc leads with $3.8M, followed by NVDAc ($3.0M) & METAc ($1.8M) Users increasingly put their stock holdings to work as collateral in DeFi

After a few short weeks, @aave already has the 2nd largest market for tokenized stocks and.... soon to be the largest, on @base. Cross margining is a key feature in lending design, basically only Aave has it.

After our SEC Reg Crypto Assets letter, we've responded to @TheFCA on tokenised gold. Same message both sides of the Atlantic: tokenisation is about collateral mobility, not just trading. £52m of tokenised gold works as collateral on @aave. Regulatory certainty will scale it.

The real promise of tokenized securities is not just onchain trading, but putting them to work: as collateral, supplied and borrowed. In our Reg Crypto Assets comment letter, we asked the @SECGov to clarify that they can be used on non-custodial lending protocols.

🟣 Aave announces the launch of the first markets curated by an external player on its V4 This is one of the main new features introduced by V4. With the Hub & Spoke architecture, deposits are pooled in Liquidity Hubs, and each market (Spoke) borrows from them with its own collateral and its own risk rules. This model now allows independent risk managers to deploy their own Hub on Aave’s infrastructure, and Sentora is the first to do so. The protocol, aimed at institutions and specialized in designing DeFi strategies, has already allocated more than 2 billion dollars to on-chain strategies, each governed by more than a thousand risk models. On its Hub deployed on Ethereum, Sentora has opened three markets: ◻️ RLUSD Yield and OUSD Yield, where these stablecoins are borrowed against USDe, PRIME, mWIN or PST. ◻️ Bluechip, which allows borrowing RLUSD, PYUSD or OUSD against kBTC. @SentoraHQ sets the parameters of its markets, but within the framework defined by Aave governance. The DAO remains the owner of the contracts, any change that increases risk goes through a 48-hour timelock, and each new asset must be approved before being listed. The markets are available now on Aave Pro.

Sentora-curated markets went live on @aave v4 yesterday. Our risk engine monitors capital flows between Hubs and Spokes, utilization and governance updates to flag risk early. Many of these indicators are now public on Sentora Risk Radar. Read more:

The Mantle x Aave Effect, by the numbers. @aave TVL on Mantle is up 32% to $64M in 30 days, led by yield-bearing stables like @ethena's sUSDe and @maplefinance's syrupUSDT, doubling as collateral. Stable by name, productive by nature, on the open financial network.

The first externally managed hub on Aave v4 is here. Welcome @SentoraHQ to the Aave ecosystem. Aave v4 is a modular infrastructure that allows for customizable strategies without fracturing liquidity.

Goodbye vault curation, hello market curation. Aave is entering a new era. Starting with @SentoraHQ, curators in DeFi are getting a step-function upgrade. Whitelabel Aave v4 instances empower curators to own more of the stack, going far beyond the limitations of traditional vault curation models. This allows curators to own more parameters, including risk premiums, collateral ratios, and many more.