Whale Alert flagged a very large USDC transfer involving Aave at around 9 a.m. on the 16th. One source described 176,000,000 USDC, valued at $176,158,399, moving from Aave to an unidentified wallet labeled "Unknown Whale 1," while another described about 190 million USDC, worth roughly 29.8 billion yen, moving to Aave. The reports agree that the transaction involved USDC and the DeFi lending protocol Aave, but differ on the amount and direction of the transfer.