Key facts
- Aave plans to exit six blockchains: Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos.
- The proposed exits cover $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in debt.
- LlamaRisk recommended retiring all reserves on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos.
- Aave's V3 market on Aptos, launched 11 months ago, has seen liquidity drop 94% and quarterly revenue below $1,000.
- Reserves on Scroll, zkSync, Metis, and Soneium are already frozen.
- Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated the move will reduce economic and technical risk.
Aave, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol, is proposing to wind down its V3 markets on six blockchains: Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos. This strategic move aims to reduce economic and technical risk by retiring underperforming deployments that collectively hold $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in debt. The proposal follows recommendations from risk service provider LlamaRisk to offboard dozens of low-use reserves and token listings across multiple deployments.
According to LlamaRisk, the Aptos market, launched just 11 months prior, has experienced a 94% liquidity drop over six months, with quarterly revenue falling below $1,000. Reserves on Scroll, zkSync, Metis, and Soneium have already been frozen, while Sonic and Aptos remain active but are recommended for freezing. A previous Aave governance vote in December 2025 supported increasing reserve factors on underperforming instances and shutting down deployments on zkSync, Metis, and Soneium, with a proposed $2 million annual revenue floor for new deployments.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that the proposed exits will reduce the protocol's economic and technical risk surface, aligning with its updated risk framework. This initiative is framed not as a reversal of Aave's multichain strategy, but as a strategic refocusing on select protocols, with continuous risk assessment to be applied across all deployments.