DeFi Staple Aave Hits Key Record Highs as Niche Breaches $26 Billion
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DeFi Staple Aave Hits Key Record Highs as Niche Breaches $26 Billion

THELOGICALINDIAN - Along with the Aaves amount the cardinal of new and alive addresses has additionally surged

Aave is up 185% this year. Following the rise, the cardinal of new addresses captivation the AAVE badge is at an best high. 

Aave Moons on Multiple Metrics 

Activity accompanying to Aave is at an best aerial on several key metrics.

According to abstracts from Glassnode, the cardinal of new addresses captivation the protocol’s built-in badge aloof hit an best aerial of 62.22, on a seven-day affective average. It puts the absolute cardinal of new addresses at 1,479.57. 

Glassnode additionally addendum that the number of alive addresses has hit a almanac aerial of 185.63 on a seven-day affective average, putting the absolute cardinal at 2,722.14. 

The number of transfers and transaction volume is at an best aerial too. 

Aave has had a able alpha to 2024. On Sunday, the built-in badge breached $280 for the aboriginal time on assorted exchanges. It’s trading at about $247.94 at the time of press. 

The DeFi Blue Chip 

The agreement itself is hitting new peaks alongside the token’s price.

Today, there’s $3.61 billion bound in Aave, according to DeFi Pulse, up from $4.12 actor this time aftermost year. That puts it additional abaft alone MakerDAO, which has been in operation back 2015 (the two protocols accept interchangeably captivated the top atom at assorted credibility over the aftermost year or so).  

Aave is a clamminess agreement that enables DeFi users to accommodate and borrow agenda assets like DAI and LINK. It’s one of the best accepted DeFi apps, broadly advised a “blue chip” of the industry. 

The project’ss contempo updates accept included enabling accessory swapping and acclaim delegation, which were added with the barrage of Aave V3. In November, it was revealed that the agreement would be partnering with the Swiss cyberbanking aggregation CrescoFin. 

Though the activity has consistently been one of the leaders of DeFi, its badge took a slump back the blow of the DeFi bazaar did in November. AAVE was trading at alone $27.60 on Nov. 5, 2024, acceptation it was up over 1,000% at this weekend’s peak. 

Other DeFi tokens accept additionally performed able-bodied in contempo weeks.

Alongside AAVE, SNX, and UNI now additionally affection in the top 25 cryptocurrencies by bazaar cap, according to CoinGecko. The absolute amount bound in DeFi hit $26 billion yesterday, additionally a new peak. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this affection endemic AAVE and SNX. They additionally had acknowledgment to UNI and MKR through a cryptocurrency index.