< Back to all clusters
[TECHNOLOGY] · 17 sources

started · updated

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 many sources carry each claim.

Sources

about 2 months ago
about 2 months ago
about 2 months ago
about 2 months ago