The focus of Aave V4 this time isn’t to “carve up the market,” but to make liquidity lie there and earn while doing nothing.

According to a PANews report, Aave founder Stani clarified that Aave V4 has attracted roughly $1.2 billion in deposits and has been deployed across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Avalanche, and Arc, while also supporting third-party curation platforms such as EtherFi. V4 operates through Hub and Spoke, allowing markets with similar risk profiles to share liquidity, improving capital utilization and capital efficiency within the allocated limits and risk parameters. The market interpretation is slightly bullish for AAVE.

From this description, V4 appears to be striking a balance between efficiency and isolation: on the one hand, avoiding capital fragmentation and cold-start costs; on the other hand, placing risk parameters front and center. The next thing worth watching closely is whether shared liquidity can hold up under large borrowings and extreme market conditions. Which do you value more: “improved capital efficiency” or “stronger risk isolation”?

Source: PANews

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Figure 1: Aave V4 deposits reach $1.2 billion · Source: partial screenshot of the page
Image source: https://www.panewslab.com/zh/articles/01a0ce17-6d2e-70e6-b57e-2dc56b6ba1c2