Citi Sees Ave Emerging as Tokenized Collateral Liquidity Hub

At The real thesis is not another crypto lending app-it is whether Aave can become the financing layer for assets moving on-chain. V4, Horizon and GHO position it at the intersection of collateral, liquidity and funding. As tokenization expands from stablecoins into money-market funds, private credit, Treasuries and potentially equities, the key watchpoint is whether those assets gain usable collateral flows; that is where tokenization stops being a wrapper and starts behaving like capital markets.

Citi is bullish on Aave becoming a liquidity hub for tokenized collateral

V4, Horizon, and GHO drive expanded financing use cases

Growth in institutions and tokenized assets may expand protocol demand

Tokenized capital markets still need regulatory and market validation
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