Aave to retire 50 low‑adoption reserves and exit six blockchain networks
Aave’s governance has put forward an Aave Request for Comment (ARFC) that would deprecate 50 low‑adoption asset reserves across multiple V3 deployments and retire 21 matured Pendle principal token listings. The proposal also calls for the full wind‑down of Aave V3 markets on six secondary blockchains – Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos – removing an additional 25 reserves on those chains.
The combined cleanup would affect roughly $98.1 million in supplied assets and about $15.6 million in outstanding debt. LlamaRisk, the DeFi risk‑service provider that prepared the analysis, estimates that the reserve removals alone represent $85.3 million in supply and $11.5 million in debt, while the six‑chain shutdown accounts for $12.8 million in supply and $4.1 million in debt. Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the measures are intended to reduce the protocol’s economic and technical risk surface under its new Risk Framework.
If enacted, users with positions on the affected markets will need to close or migrate those positions, and the protocol will freeze new activity on the retired reserves while gradually reducing caps on the remaining ones. The move is framed as a risk‑management optimisation rather than a retreat from the underlying blockchains.
Entities: Aave · Aptos · Aptos · Llamarisk · Pendle · Sonic · Sonic · Stani Kulechov · zkSync
Claims
What the coverage asserts, and how well corroborated each claim is across sources.
- [● 13 SOURCES] The restructuring will affect about $98.1 million in supplied assets. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 3 SOURCES] The six network exits involve $12.8 million in supply and $4.1 million in debt. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 13 SOURCES] The proposal includes retiring 21 matured Pendle principal tokens. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Aave governance proposes deprecating 50 low‑adoption asset reserves across multiple deployments. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 4 SOURCES] Reserve removals represent $85.3 million in supply and $11.5 million in debt. (LlamaRisk analysis)
- [● 13 SOURCES] Founder Stani Kulechov said the changes reduce Aave’s economic and technical risk surface under its new Risk Framework. (Aave founder statement)
- [● 10 SOURCES] Aave will wind down V3 markets on six blockchains: Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 13 SOURCES] The restructuring will affect about $15.6 million in outstanding debt. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Aave proposes to wind down V3 markets on six blockchains: Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Aave proposes to deprecate 50 low‑adoption asset reserves. (Aave governance proposal)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Risk service provider LlamaRisk prepared the assessment supporting the proposal. (LlamaRisk)
- [● 3 SOURCES] Aave holds roughly 47.8 % of on‑chain active loans. (MSB Intel data)