Borrowing Against Tesla Stock on a Sunday? Aave Just Made It Real
One of the more interesting threads on X today isn't about price at all. Aave V4 on Base now lets eligible non-U.S. users post Coinbase tokenized stocks (AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc) as collateral and borrow USDC, around the clock. Chainlink feeds supply the prices, and the stocks are collateral-only, so USDC is the only thing you can borrow.
Early numbers shared on X are small: roughly $9.6M deposited and $4.1M borrowed. That's tiny next to the equities market, but I think the design detail matters more than the size. Collateral factors range from 65% (TSLAc, METAc) up to 79% (MSFTc), and the stock price feeds pause from Friday 20:00 ET to Sunday 20:00 ET. Over the weekend your collateral value is frozen at the last close, which avoids weekend liquidations but also means any Monday gap hits all at once.
My take: with $BTC slipping toward $81K and alts under pressure this week, real-world collateral flowing into DeFi is one of the few structural stories still moving forward. Watch whether the deposits
grow, not the headline.
$AAVE $USDC #Aave #RWA #TokenizedStocks #DeFi #Base
Not financial advice.
One of the more interesting threads on X today isn't about price at all. Aave V4 on Base now lets eligible non-U.S. users post Coinbase tokenized stocks (AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc) as collateral and borrow USDC, around the clock. Chainlink feeds supply the prices, and the stocks are collateral-only, so USDC is the only thing you can borrow.
Early numbers shared on X are small: roughly $9.6M deposited and $4.1M borrowed. That's tiny next to the equities market, but I think the design detail matters more than the size. Collateral factors range from 65% (TSLAc, METAc) up to 79% (MSFTc), and the stock price feeds pause from Friday 20:00 ET to Sunday 20:00 ET. Over the weekend your collateral value is frozen at the last close, which avoids weekend liquidations but also means any Monday gap hits all at once.
My take: with $BTC slipping toward $81K and alts under pressure this week, real-world collateral flowing into DeFi is one of the few structural stories still moving forward. Watch whether the deposits
grow, not the headline.
$AAVE $USDC #Aave #RWA #TokenizedStocks #DeFi #Base
Not financial advice.