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Odaily Report: During the Binance attack, an obvious arbitrage opportunity emerged on-chain. According to a community user's review, the attacker, in order to avoid Tether freezing, swapped a large amount of USDT for ETH through DEXs, causing the ETH price on Uniswap to briefly rise to $2,560–$2,750, with some individual trades exceeding $3,000, while Aave's ETH price obtained through the Chainlink oracle remained at $2,250–$2,290. A price gap of 15% to 30% appeared between on-chain and oracle prices, lasting nearly an hour.Arbitrageurs exploited this price gap by depositing USDC/USDT as collateral into Aave, borrowing ETH at the oracle price, then selling it at high prices on DEXs, and buying back ETH to repay the loans once the spread narrowed. According to the user's statistics, within 6 hours after the incident, a total of 61 addresses borrowed ETH on Aave mainnet (excluding the hacker's address). Among them, the most profitable address sold 12,289 ETH at an average price of approximately $2,580, then bought back 12,314 ETH at an average price of approximately $2,297, earning about $3.47 million. The top ten arbitrage addresses collectively profited approximately $6.36 million.The user stated that the arbitrageurs exploited the price disconnection between centralized exchanges and DEXs, and that the Aave contract itself had no vulnerability. As DEX prices fell back and Aave froze the mainnet V3 market, the arbitrage window gradually closed. The above profits are based on transaction-by-transaction on-chain statistics and have not yet deducted Gas fees.
Odaily Report: Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), posted on X stating that the Aave protocol is fine.The Binance hacker injected 60 million USDT into the protocol within just 3 minutes and borrowed 19,762 wETH (approximately $44.9 million), at which point Tether had not yet frozen the address, nor had the Aave Guardian frozen the Aave V3 Core pool's reserves (this operation occurred 46 minutes later).However, USDT is backed by real dollars, and from the protocol's perspective, although this position is the proceeds of crime, it is overcollateralized — with a health factor of 1.04, holding $59.9 million in collateral against $44.9 million in debt.Of course, the protocol now has a large borrower with little incentive to repay the loan, but the liquidation mechanism will still operate as usual. If the ETH price rises above approximately $2,365 (+4%), the position will be liquidated just like any other position.Currently, the Aave V3 Core pool's total wETH reserves stand at 2.16 million wETH, and the hacker's debt accounts for "only" 0.9% of that, so Aave does not need to take any special action against the hacker. There are currently 345,000 wETH available (capital utilization rate of 81.6%), so if wETH depositors wish to withdraw, liquidity is fully sufficient. There is no reason or need for a bank run to occur.This situation is far less alarming than the Kelp hacker incident (which involved zero-value collateral). In theory, a governance proposal could be passed to force liquidation of the hacker by upgrading the pool (if the USDT liquidation threshold were lowered, it would affect all USDT depositors), but there is no practical benefit to doing so, as the normal liquidation mechanism can easily absorb this debt.
Odaily report: A wallet suspected to be associated with the Binance hack incident received tens of thousands of ETH through a Uniswap contract and borrowed 19,762 ETH on Aave using approximately $60 million in USDT as collateral. On-chain records do not show any vulnerabilities in Uniswap or Aave.As of 22:07 UTC, the two wallets held approximately 253,000 ETH, worth about $570 million, with no outgoing transfers recorded. Aave has paused the Ethereum mainnet V3 market, and Kamino has also paused borrowing in the SOL/BTC market; Ripple has frozen approximately $200 million in RLUSD, and more than $2 billion in USDT and USDC has been frozen by stablecoin issuers. (Decrypt)
According to the official announcement from Chainlink, Chainlink 24/7 is now live, providing 24/7 on-chain market data for real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks and commodities, covering weekends and holidays, and supporting tokenized asset trading, collateral valuation, and on-chain risk management. Decentralized lending protocol Aave has become the first partner and will utilize this service for 24/7 collateral management.
According to BeInCrypto, Grayscale released a crypto asset valuation ranking evaluated based on two metrics: "Token Holder Yield" and "Adjusted Earnings Yield". HYPE topped holder yields at 8.0%, with Lighter (LIT) following closely at 7.9%, and PancakeSwap (CAKE) ranking third at 2.6%, followed sequentially by AERO, UNI, RAY, PENDLE, AAVE, JUP, and CRV. In terms of adjusted earnings yield, CAKE led at 14.4%, with LIT at 14.1% and HYPE at 9.8%, followed sequentially by RAY, AAVE, JUP, SKY, UNI, AERO, and PENDLE. The report showed that five assets on the list had negative holder yields, including AAVE, JUP, and CRV, with CRV at -5.5% and JUP at -2.6%. Grayscale calculates holder yield as staking rewards plus buybacks minus new token issuance, so holders face dilution when new issuance exceeds total yields. While JUP's adjusted earnings yield stands at 3.5%, its holder yield remains negative.
During Aave's official quarterly live stream on X on October 22, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that Aavenomics 3.0 will be launched soon, which includes AAVE buyback, staking, and burning mechanisms, with repurchases set to resume. Additionally, seven of Coinbase's tokenized stocks have been listed on Aave V4 Equities Hub on the Base network and can be used as collateral to borrow USDC. Currently, it is only accessible to eligible non-US users. Initial deposits at launch were approximately $9.6 million. In terms of Q3 data, the DAO generated revenue of approximately $18.9 million and net profits of around $4 million. Total deposits grew by 41% to reach approximately $33.6 billion, while active loans increased by 32% to about $13.2 billion.
Aave posted on X that the first externally curated markets on Aave V4 are now live, with strategies designed by @SentoraHQ. Users can borrow RLUSD, PYUSD, and OUSD across 3 new markets on Ethereum using yield-bearing assets and blue-chip assets as collateral.
According to The Defiant, DeFi protocol Pendle has extended its one-click looping functionality to yield assets and tokenized stocks. Users can establish long positions on tokenized stocks via Aave borrowings on the Base chain. Additionally, fees charged by PendleLoop on non-PT (principal token) positions will be waived until December 31.
Securitize launches tokenized US stock products like Apple and Tesla on the Solana blockchain, driving its stock price up more than 10% intraday, with integration support from Ripple and Aave.
Odaily News: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, enabling DeFi vaults to directly accept user deposits from more than 80 blockchains without needing to redeploy the vault on each chain. The product is now live, with protocols including Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda, and Venus already beginning to adopt it. The relevant vaults cover areas such as stablecoins, lending, yield strategies, digital credit, and tokenized assets.
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency trading firm GSR has committed $100 million, primarily through credit lines, to fund its new business Hare. Hare will partner with liquidity platform Turtle to create and manage on-chain vaults.Hare will initially launch vaults powered by lending protocol Aave, allowing investors to earn yields through major USD stablecoins and Paxos' tokenized gold product, with GSR providing anchored liquidity. (CoinDesk)
The decentralized lending protocol Aave community has released an ARFC proposal, proposing the establishment of a "memberless" foundation entity, Aave Foundation, in the Cayman Islands to hold the Aave trademarks, core domain names, and intellectual property rights of the codebase. According to the proposal's plan, the structure will be implemented in phases. Phase I involves solely the establishment of the entity and the appointment of independent directors and supervisors, with all associated costs borne by the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and no regular budget established.
SlowMist has issued a security alert stating that a vulnerability has been discovered in the Aave V3 Loop Safe Module. Attackers exploited forged Safe authentication and arbitrary Module execution to steal approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multisig wallets.The attackers bypassed authentication by forging a Safe that always returns true, and leveraged an arbitrarily controllable router and calldata to execute module transactions, transferring weETH and Aave collateral. The attackers repaid approximately 1,300 WETH in debt to unlock the collateral.
According to a post by the Blockchain Association (@BlockchainAssn), the Blockchain Association has officially launched the Vaults Workstream, bringing together dozens of leading member organizations including a16z Crypto, Aave, Uniswap, Grayscale, dYdX Foundation, Ethena, Morpho, and Multicoin to participate in Washington-based policy discussions on on-chain finance. As an emerging component of on-chain finance infrastructure, Vaults can provide users with diverse asset exposure, support composable and personalized investment strategies, and offer high flexibility in manual control, governance, and risk management. Members of this workstream will engage directly with the SEC to assist legislators in understanding Vault mechanics and the applicability of existing regulatory frameworks, with the goal of aligning regulatory rules with technological development to ensure the United States maintains its leading position in on-chain financial innovation.
Odaily News: DeFi protocol Sentora has initiated an ARFC proposal to operate an independently curated lending market on Aave V4. The initial deployment will be on Ethereum, supporting stablecoin lending such as RLUSD, PYUSD, and OUSD, with Aave DAO receiving 50% of the revenue from this instance.The Aave DAO governance short-term executor will retain structural ownership of the instance and hold the management roles for all hub-and-spoke contracts, configurators, and the native AccessManager.
Aave posted on X that it has made multiple user experience improvements to Aave App, Aave Pro, and Aave V3, and thanked the community for its feedback. Aave also launched the Ghost Pass benefit, allowing users to post their high scores and receive a Ghost Pass.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that he is considering introducing an AAVE token burn mechanism in Aavenomics 3.0. Aavenomics 3.0 is a brand-new tokenomics upgrade launched by Aave, which has previously implemented measures such as AAVE buybacks backed by protocol revenue.
Odaily Report: Aave founder Stani posted on X that the Aave App now supports users depositing assets directly from Ethereum mainnet, and released a Ghost Pass code for users to try it out early.
Odaily News: Coinbase tokenized stocks are now live on the Base deployment of Aave V4. Eligible users in jurisdictions outside the United States can use AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc, and TSLAc as collateral to borrow USDC. This V4 instance was deployed by Aave Labs on behalf of the Aave DAO, with risk analysis conducted by LlamaRisk. Chainlink, as Coinbase's official oracle solution, provides price data for the tokenized stocks, including underlying stock prices and issuer multipliers.
Odaily News: Aave V4 has launched Equities Hub on Base, allowing eligible non-US users to borrow USDC using 7 tokenized US stocks issued by Coinbase as collateral, covering Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. The market uses Chainlink to provide on-chain price data for tokenized stocks. The initial combined collateral cap for the 7 stocks is approximately $29 million, with a USDC supply cap of $32 million and a borrow cap of $21 million. Collateral ratios for different stocks range from 65% to 79%. Currently, these stocks can only be used as collateral. Aave stated that more Coinbase tokenized stocks and GHO as borrowable assets may be added in the future after governance and risk assessment approvals. (The Block)