🚨 JUST IN: Aave founder Stani Kulechov says reports about Payward buying a stake in Aave were inaccurately framed, adding, "There is NO WAY we'd sell AAVE at a 70% discount."

Standard Chartered just put a $3,500 target on solana:AavE1kKKnesPw4MuRJmJ9jZs9QzEE8CPxQ3ViczUDfc1 by 2030. Aave is up around 8% today. Big number, big thesis. They’re basically looking at Aave as one of the main onchain lending layers if DeFi, RWAs and tokenized assets keep growing. Maybe too aggressive, maybe not. But it’s interesting to see DeFi getting this kind of attention again.

Venice Token ($VVV) rose +6.3% in 24 hours. Notably, this is a platform that fuses AI and DeFi—a bold concept offering censorship-resistant AI inference on the blockchain. The price may be driven by demand for decentralized AI to fill gaps left by centralized models like OpenAI and Gemini. What’s interesting is that $VVV is already moving while still relatively unknown among AI tokens. How do you view the combination of AI and Web3? --- [Hashtags] #VVV #Cryptocurrency #Web3

Aave App has acquired Labs and is now scaling, aiming to make DeFi yields accessible to everyday users. Mario, ex-Meta ML engineer, leads the effort to simplify crypto investing. Will mainstream adoption drive DeFi growth? #Crypto #DeFi #Innovation

Stani cleared up the rumors, aave won’t be sold at a 70% discount, good news! he also clarified that protocol, gho, app, pro and swaps revenue all flow to $AAVE / the dao, aave labs doesn’t take protocol revenue, and aavenomics 3.0 is being designed with an automated buyback mechanism so yeah, the original framing from the coindesk article looks pretty off rn

AAVE’s rally against a weaker Bitcoin tape suggests traders are still rewarding DeFi names tied to institutional lending and real-world asset narratives.

morpho generated $19m in gross fees in may, $228m annualized run rate against a $1.13b mcap. that's 6x fees. it holds 39% of all RWA lending deposits across chains, more than aave at 21%. coinbase routes $2.3b through it on base. bitgo launched defi vaults on it. figure markets hit $100m in home equity loan deposits. apollo and SG_Forge originated $2b through it. the protocol retains zero net earnings by design, every dollar flows to vault curators and risk managers. morpho is pricing like a mid-tier defi app while operating as the invisible credit layer between stablecoins and tokenized debt. $175m raise at $2b from paradigm and a16z was not a narrative bet, it was underwriting proven infrastructure. 6x fees on a protocol that briefly outpaced aave in daily fee generation is mispriced infrastructure or the market needs to go read the intelligent investor

The Microstrategy driven market stress has created imo an uniquely attractive entry point for the number one consumer AI product in crypto. $VVV trading back in the $13 range (had been as high as $20) while fundamentals continue to accelerate. I wonder how many of the people who were waiting for a dip to buy built new positions. Based on my estimates Venice is likely to hit 4mm users around month end. 10mm users by year end very much in play. Will be exciting to follow.

AAVE Could Hit $3,500 By 2030: Standard Chartered - AAVE Could Rise From $70 To $3,500 By 2030 - The Bank Expects DeFi Assets To Expand To $2.7T By 2030 - Aave To Benefit From Rising Stablecoin Adoption & Tokenized RWAs - The Forecast Depends On Successful Institutional Adoption & Broader Crypto Market Growth #AAVE #DeFi #Stablecoin #RWAs #Crypto