Aave is moving to wind down its V3 markets across six blockchains, impacting $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in outstanding debt. The proposal, filed as an Aave Request for Comment (ARFC), outlines the retirement of these deployments and 50 low-use token reserves.
LlamaRisk, the protocol's risk service provider, initiated the recommendation in coordination with other Aave service providers. The assessment proposes offboarding 50 low-use reserves and 21 matured Pendle principal token listings across 11 deployments, with all 25 reserves on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos targeted for retirement based on July 28 balances.
The exit from Aptos comes 11 months after Aave launched V3 there. LlamaRisk data shows available liquidity on Aptos has dropped 94 percent over the past six months, with quarterly revenue falling below $1,000.
Reserves on Scroll, zkSync, Metis and Soneium were already frozen. Sonic and Aptos remain active but are now recommended for freezing.
This consolidation follows a multichain strategy review that concluded Dec. 5, 2025. That vote passed 923,400 in favor with less than 1 percent opposition, approving measures to increase reserve factors on underperforming instances, shut down zkSync, Metis and Soneium deployments, and establish a $2 million annual revenue floor for new instance launches.
Scroll was added to the wind-down list through an accelerated process in April. LlamaRisk filed a direct-to-AIP proposal to freeze all Scroll reserves and raise selected reserve factors, describing the action as completing Scroll's deprecation after rapid deterioration in network liquidity and Aave market activity.
Aave published an updated risk framework on June 9 detailing criteria for asset, bridge, monitoring and chain risk, plus clear wind-down standards for reserves and deployments. This month's announcement signals the protocol's de facto adoption of these rules.
Stani Kulechov, Aave's founder, said the consolidation will "reduce Aave's economic and technical risk surface as part of the new Aave Risk Framework and Technical Asset Listing Framework." Kulechov clarified the actions do not reverse Aave's multichain expansion strategy but represent a strategic refocusing on select protocols. "We will continue applying continuous risk assessment for all assets across all deployments," he said.
Aave recently launched V3 on Avalanche earlier this month, demonstrating continued expansion onto high-performing networks. An ARFC precedes an Aave Improvement Proposal and is not a final on-chain vote.
