Aave is moving to consolidate its multichain presence, proposing the wind-down of its V3 markets across six blockchains. A detailed Aave Request for Comment outlines the plan to retire deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos.
The proposal encompasses $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in outstanding debt across these markets. It also recommends offboarding 50 low-use reserves and 21 matured Pendle principal token listings spread across 11 deployments. Balances for the assessment were recorded on July 28.
Risk service provider LlamaRisk, collaborating with other Aave service providers, put forward the recommendations. The firm had previously advised Aave to wind down every reserve on the listed chains.
Most of the targeted deployments—including Scroll, zkSync, Metis and Soneium—had already been frozen. The ARFC now recommends freezing the remaining active deployments on Sonic and Aptos.
The proposed Aptos exit comes only 11 months after Aave launched its V3 market on the blockchain. LlamaRisk data shows available liquidity on Aptos declined 94 percent over the past six months, with quarterly revenue falling below $1,000.
The consolidation follows a broader strategic review. A temperature check on Aave's multichain strategy concluded on Dec. 5, 2025, garnering 923,400 votes in favor and less than one percent against measures to increase the reserve factor on underperforming deployments.
That December vote also supported shutting down instances on zkSync, Metis and Soneium, and established a $2 million annual revenue floor for new Aave V3 deployments.
Scroll was subsequently added to the list through an accelerated process in April. LlamaRisk filed a direct-to-AIP proposal to freeze all Scroll reserves, citing rapid deterioration in network liquidity and Aave market activity on the chain.
The current proposal reflects Aave's updated risk framework, published on June 9, which establishes criteria for winding down reserves or deployments covering asset, bridge, monitoring and chain risk.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the move will "reduce Aave's economic and technical risk surface as part of the new Aave Risk Framework and Technical Asset Listing Framework." Kulechov said the actions do not represent a reversal of Aave's multichain expansion strategy, characterizing the move as a "strategic refocusing on select protocols." Aave will continue applying continuous risk assessment for all assets across all deployments, he added.
The consolidation comes as Aave continues expanding into other ecosystems, including a launch on Avalanche earlier this month.
