Aave V3

Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.

DeFiLlama publishes the exact rules used to aggregate on-chain balances into the headline TVL figure shown on this page. The methodology below is the team's own source-of-truth description.

Counts the tokens locked in the contracts to be used as collateral to borrow or to earn yield. Borrowed coins are not counted towards the TVL, so only the coins actually locked in the contracts are counted. There's multiple reasons behind this but one of the main ones is to avoid inflating the TVL through cycled lending.

If a contract or vault isn't in this list, its balance does not contribute to the TVL displayed on Mantapex or DeFiLlama.

Aave V3 is published as a versioned release inside the Aave protocol family. Releases inside the same family typically share governance, brand, and large parts of the audit history, but each version can run materially different contract logic — a release labelled v2 or v3 is not just a UI refresh. Newer versions inside a family typically launch with their own audit cycle and parameter set, so do not assume the previous release's safety record carries over without checking the linked audit reports.

Fork lineage and parent-protocol relationships are tracked by DeFiLlama for security and audit-history attribution; a fork inherits the upstream design but not necessarily the upstream audits or governance.

Aave V3 is a versioned release inside a larger protocol family. View the parent for combined TVL and all sibling versions.

Major events flagged by the DeFiLlama community — protocol launches, exploits, governance changes, and incentive programs.

1. Apr 1, 2022
   Listed on DeFiLlama
2. Aug 4, 2022
   Start OP Rewards
3. Apr 20, 2022
   Start AVAX Rewards

Aave V3 is a Lending protocol that lets users supply assets as collateral, borrow against them, and earn interest from borrowers paying variable or stable rates. It is deployed across 20 chains, including Ethereum, Plasma, Arbitrum, Base and 16 other chains. The codebase has been independently audited (1 report on file). DeFiLlama tracks 2 historical events for this protocol since 2022.

Aave V3 runs a multi-chain deployment, with smart contracts live on 20 networks. TVL is comparatively balanced across networks: even the largest deployment (Ethereum) holds only 36% of the protocol's value. Price feeds come from a single oracle provider (Chainlink); an outage or manipulation of that feed would propagate into every market the protocol prices. Only one audit report is currently listed; users should weigh that against the protocol's TVL before depositing significant amounts.

Verified external resources for Aave V3 — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.

Aave V3 is one of 7 Lending protocols Mantapex tracks in this category. Direct peers ranked by total value locked include Morpho V1, JustLend, Maple, and 3 more. These peer protocols collectively secure $18.6B in deposits, giving you a frame of reference for whether Aave V3's own TVL is at the top, middle, or tail of the category.

Morpho V1

TVL $7B · 24h +0.57%

JustLend

TVL $3.4B · 24h +1.86%

Maple

TVL $2.4B · 24h -1.17%

SparkLend

TVL $2.2B · 24h +3.62%

Kamino Lend

TVL $2.1B · 24h -0.02%

Compound V3

TVL $1.4B · 24h -0.37%