Aave is deprecating 50 low-adoption asset reserves across its lending markets and winding down deployments on six blockchains. The affected chains are Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos. Total supply caught in the cuts is $98.1 million, with $15.6 million in debt outstanding.
Which assets are being cut
On Ethereum, the liquid-staking wrappers FBTC and eBTC are being removed. Their combined deposits dropped from roughly $72 million to $16 million over the past six months. Bridge tokens USDC.e and USDbC are also on the chopping block — users have largely moved to native versions. MaticX is being wound down because its issuer, Stader, is retiring the token entirely.
Why these chains are being dropped
Each of the six departing chains generates less than $5,000 per quarter in revenue. That's not enough to cover oracle and monitoring costs, the protocol said. Deposits on Sonic fell from $28.9 million to $7.6 million over six months. On Scroll, they dropped from $16.1 million to $2.2 million. The wind-down process freezes each reserve and reduces supply and borrowing caps to one.
Oracle changes and risk
LlamaRisk identified Chainlink price feeds for long-tail assets in Aave V2 and V3 for deprecation. Chainlink rated those feeds as high or very high operational risk due to low adoption and liquidity. The oracle changes affect 10 deployments and assets worth $6.76 million in supplied funds and $4.29 million in debt.
What happens next
The deprecation is effective immediately. Users are expected to withdraw their assets from the affected reserves and chains. No further timeline has been given for the full wind-down, but the process has begun.
