{"id":264519,"date":"2021-06-02T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/funds-locked-in-aave-soar-past-20-billion-amid-layer-two-embrace\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:47:01","slug":"funds-locked-in-aave-soar-past-20-billion-amid-layer-two-embrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/funds-locked-in-aave-soar-past-20-billion-amid-layer-two-embrace\/","title":{"rendered":"# Funds locked in Aave soar past $20 billion amid layer-two embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Funds locked in Aave soar past $20 billion amid layer-two embrace <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDYvYmM5ODgzZDEtNGZkNy00YzQ1LTk2MGQtMzM3Yzc0NTE3NzcyLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Aave has surged to the top of the DeFi ranking by total value locked (TVL) amid its recent embrace of layer-two for scaling.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aave\u2019s website, the v2 and Polygon deployments of the popular crypto-powered money market protocol currently represent more than $20 billion in locked capital, holding more than $12.6 billion and $7.8 billion in the respective versions.<\/p>\n<p>According to DeFi Llama, Aave v2 is currently the largest decentralized protocol by assets locked, while Aave\u2019s Polygon deployment would rank fourth despite launching just six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Aave\u2019e embrace of layer-two solution, Polygon, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have bolstered its adoption compared to other leading DeFi protocols<\/p>\n<p>Using data provided by Dune Analytics, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> user \u201cDeFi Dividends\u201d found that the share of Aave\u2019s monthly userbase represented by new users is roughly 50% greater than either MakerDAO and Compound, with 44% of Aave\u2019s users comprising newcomers in May compared to 29.8% for MakerDAO and 26.3% for Compound.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding its Polygon deployment, Aave outpaces Compound\u2019s total value borrowed by one-third and MakerDAO by roughly double.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Total Amount Borrowed market share:<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24AAVE&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$AAVE<\/a>: 47%<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MKR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MKR<\/a>: 17.9%<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24Comp&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$Comp<\/a>: 35.1%<\/p>\n<p>Once again Aave&#8217;s growth is impressive! This is the first month where it has passed comp for the most amount of money borrowed. And this doesn&#8217;t even account for the extra $7b+ on Polygon that Aave has  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tl3SX9dc0m\">pic.twitter.com\/Tl3SX9dc0m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Defi Dividends (@DefiDividends) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiDividends\/status\/1399041123394330625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>At the start of April \u2014 three weeks before its launch on Polygon, Aave\u2019s Marc Zeller <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/aave\/exploring-new-frontiers-with-aave-59563ddd2405\">predicted<\/a> DeFi will transition towards a multi-chain ecosystem that uses Ethereum\u2019s layer-one mainnet for settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Zeller\u2019s vision appears to be catching on across the crypto sector, with prominent influencer, ChainLinkGod, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChainLinkGod\/status\/1399434796799987718\">asserting<\/a> that \u201cmost chains will be L2 rollups that store data on L1 shards anchored to Ethereum\u201d in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Sassano, founder of The Daily Gwei, has also echoed this sentiment, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hr-beThswk8\">stating<\/a>: \u201cI think that the [Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)] has already won, I think the EVM is going to be the winner for the long term, and there is going to be a point where it&#8217;s basically a handful [&#8230;] of different chains and L2s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments come just days after the mainnet beta launch of the highly anticipated layer-two rollups sidechain, Arbitrum. Many top DeFi protocols are already eager to deploy on Arbitrum, with Uniswap, Curve Finance, and Mcdex among those eying the protocol.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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According to Aave\u2019s website, the v2 and Polygon deployments of the popular crypto-powered money market protocol currently represent more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDYvYmM5ODgzZDEtNGZkNy00YzQ1LTk2MGQtMzM3Yzc0NTE3NzcyLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92664,74868,74891,95119,4965],"class_list":["post-264519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-aave","tag-defi","tag-ethereum","tag-layer2","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}