Aave History

What does Aave do?

Aave (CRYPTO:AAVE) is a decentralized liquidity protocol that allows users to lend and borrow cryptocurrency assets. It is governed by the Aave community and secured by the Aave Safety Module. Aave is currently deployed on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, Metis, and Aave Arc. Some of Aave's key objectives include providing users with access to liquidity, enabling developers to build applications on the Aave protocol, and promoting the adoption of DeFi.

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Company Snapshot

Employees

123

Market Cap

$2.53B

Head Office

George Town, Cayman Islands

Year Founded

2017

What does Aave specialise in?

/Alameda Research Portfolio /Avalanche Ecosystem /Blockchain Capital Portfolio /DAO /DeFi /DeFiance Capital Portfolio /Ethereum Ecosystem /Fantom Ecosystem /Framework Ventures Portfolio /Gnosis Chain Ecosystem /Governance /HECO Ecosystem /Lending & Borrowing /Made in America /Near Protocol Ecosystem /Optimism Ecosystem /Pantera Capital Portfolio /ParaFi Capital /Polygon Ecosystem /Solana Ecosystem /Sora Ecosystem /Standard Crypto Portfolio /Three Arrows Capital Portfolio /Yield Farming

What are the products and/or services of Aave?

Overview of Aave offerings

Borrowing: Users can borrow cryptocurrency assets from Aave's liquidity pools, using their own assets as collateral.

Bridging: Aave users can bridge their assets between different blockchains using Aave's bridging service.

Flash loans: Flash loans allow users to borrow cryptocurrency assets without collateral, but the loan must be repaid within the same block transaction.

Governance: Aave token holders can vote on proposals to change the Aave protocol.

Lending: Users can deposit their cryptocurrency assets into Aave's liquidity pools to earn interest.

Staking: Users can stake Aave tokens to earn rewards and help secure the Aave protocol.

Aave investors

Blockchain Capital

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