Aave’s founder said a shared liquidity hub and modular markets could help rebuild repo, margin lending and securities-backed lending on-chain by tapping traditional market scale.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said Aave V4 could be used to rebuild securities financing on-chain, outlining a model centered on a shared liquidity hub and modular markets. He framed the opportunity against the size of established finance, pointing to the $12.6 trillion average daily U.S. repo market, $1.3 trillion in margin financing, over $400 billion in wealth-management securities-backed loans, and about $4.6 trillion in securities lending assets. The remarks suggest Aave sees its next version as infrastructure for bringing core collateralized funding markets onto blockchain-based rails, where shared liquidity can improve capital efficiency and modular market design can support different use cases.