Aave Moves to Retire Dozens of Low‑Use Asset Reserves and Wind Down Six Chains

TL;DR
- Reserve Cleanup: Aave plans to offboard 50 low‑adoption reserves and 21 matured Pendle PTs across multiple deployments.
- Chain Wind‑Downs: Six smaller deployments holding $12.8 million in supplied assets are slated for full retirement.
- Risk Framework: The initiative follows Aave’s new risk standards introduced after the $292 million KelpDAO exploit.
Aave is preparing one of its largest cleanup efforts to date, proposing the removal of dozens of low‑adoption reserves and the full retirement of six smaller blockchain deployments. The governance initiative, introduced Thursday, outlines changes that would affect about $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in outstanding debt across the protocol.
After a comprehensive review, Aave is deprecating 50 low adoption asset reserves across multiple deployments.
In addition, Aave is orderly winding down deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, covering another 25 asset reserves.
As part of this process,…
- Stani (@StaniKulechov) July 30, 2026
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