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Aave weighs closing 6 V3 blockchain markets, offboarding 50 low-use reserves

Latest NewsPublishedJul 31, 2026

Aave Considers Closing Markets on 6 Blockchains to Reduce Risk

The DeFi lending protocol Aave is weighing a proposal to wind down its V3 markets on six blockchains, including Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos. This move aims to reduce the protocol’s economic and technical risk surface by offboarding 50 low-use reserves and retiring dozens of low-use token listings, covering $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in debt.

This decision is part of Aave’s new risk framework, which involves continuous risk assessment for all assets across deployments. By closing these markets, Aave can minimize its exposure to underperforming instances and focus on more profitable ones. This strategic refocusing is not a reversal of Aave’s multichain expansion strategy, but rather a way to optimize its resources and reduce risk.

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Scroll was then added to the affected protocols through an accelerated process in April, as LlamaRisk filed a direct-to-AIP proposal to freeze every Scroll reserve and raise selected reserve factors, describing the measure as completing Scroll’s deprecation after a rapid deterioration in network liquidity and Aave market activity. Aave also published an updated risk framework on June 9, covering asset, bridge, monitoring and chain risk and criteria for winding down reserves or deployments, and this month’s announcement indicated de facto adoption of those rules by the protocol.

Source: Stani Kulechov

Aave founder Stani Kulechov said in a Thursday post that this will also “reduce Aave’s economic and technical risk surface as part of the new Aave Risk Framework and Technical Asset Listing Framework.”

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Still, this is not a reversal of Aave’s multichain expansion strategy, rather a strategic refocusing on select protocols. “Aave will continue applying continuous risk assessment for all assets across all deployments,” Kulechov said. The comments also follow Aave launching on Avalanche earlier this month.

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