Aave TVL Falls $8.45 Billion in Two Days as DeFi TVL Drops $13.21 Billion

The claim's exact numbers are directly supported by the PANews article and independently echoed by Wu Blockchain's X post. PANews specifically gives the end values and deltas: Aave at $17.947 billion after a $8.45 billion two-day drop, and DeFi TVL at $86.286 billion after a $13.21 billion decline. Wu Blockchain repeats the same figures, which increases confidence that these were widely sourced from the same underlying data. However, the primary cited source, Lookonchain, was not retrievable in this run, and there is no official Aave domain source here confirming the figures. Because the available evidence is corroborated but still secondary to the unavailable original monitoring post, the claim is best assessed as likely true with medium confidence.