Aave Moves to Retire 50 Low-Adoption Assets, Wind Down Six Chains
Aave, the largest DeFi lending protocol with $14.3 billion in deposits, is moving to deprecate 50 low-adoption asset reserves and fully wind down its deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos, under...
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Aave is showing up inside the DeFi theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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