Aave Eliminates 50 Low Adoption Asset Reserves and Shuts Down Multi-Chain Deployments
Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced that after a comprehensive review, Aave will eliminate 50 low adoption asset reserves across multiple deployments.
At the same time, it will orderly shut down deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos (involving an additional 25 asset reserves), and eliminate 21 expired Pendle PT tokens, affecting a total supply of $98.1 million and $15.6 million in debt.
This event-driven DeFi protocol is converging risks, with funds and resources flowing towards core high adoption assets and main chains. Aave benefits from reduced economic and technical risks, while low liquidity side chains and niche reserves are under pressure.
Source: Public Information
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After long-term multi-chain expansion, Aave has accumulated a large number of low adoption reserves. It is now systematically cleaning up through a new risk framework and technical asset listing framework, prioritizing high-use assets and shutting down low-activity deployments, while replacing expired Pendle products.
On the capital path, the protocol is shrinking liquidity and governance resources from decentralized side chains to main deployments, motivated by the need to reduce overall risk exposure and improve capital efficiency, with funds shifting from low-utilization markets to core assets under continuous evaluation.
This mirrors the path of other DeFi protocols transitioning from aggressive multi-chain expansion to risk-prioritized streamlining, currently in a phase where the lending market shifts from broad competition to depth and security.
Essentially, this is a restructuring of the industry chain: multi-chain deployments are shifting from opportunity-driven to risk-filtering, as low adoption assets increase technical and economic exposure, thereby redistributing the protocol's capital and focus.
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Low adoption assets are the biggest hidden risk for the protocol.
Multi-chain expansion ultimately needs to rely on risk frameworks to close.
Timely elimination of expired products is more efficient than continued maintenance.