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AAVE Aave governance proposal: It is planned to clean up 6 chains and 96 reserve pools, involving approximately US$98 million.
Aave governance is weighing a cleanup plan to close 96 reserve pools on 6 chains, involving approximately US$98 million. The proposal aims to eliminate long-tail assets and low-adoption markets in the v2 and v3 deployments of the loan agreement.
The plan is proposed through a series of Aave Final Request for Comment (ARFC) proposals, one of which is to abandon the oracle of long-tail assets in Aave v2 and v3. Another independent proposal recommends abandoning low-adoption assets on Aave v3.
Specific content of Aave's cleanup proposal
The proposal targets 6 chains and 96 reserve pools, with a cleanup scale of approximately US$98 million, covering markets that governance determines as low utilization or long tail. Since the proposal follows the ARFC process, it belongs to a governance proposal voted on by the community rather than being immediately shut down.
The move echoes Aave's broader v3 multi-chain strategic focus action-which has formulated the first phase of plans to centralize the protocol's presence across multiple chains.
Why Aave removes low-utilization chains and reserve pools
Abandoning the oracle and reserve pool of long-tail assets can reduce the safety area that needs to be maintained for lending agreements, because each active market and price oracle bears operating costs. The oracle abandonment proposal positions the move as eliminating asset price sources that are no longer worthy of support.
Closing low-utilization markets can also help solve the problem of fragmentation of liquidity-when deposits and loans are scattered among many reserve pools, individual markets are more difficult to manage. Aave's risk framework guides how the agreement evaluates and eliminates such assets.
This streamlining can strengthen the focus on high-quality markets by focusing attention and risk resources on chains and reserve pools with higher adoption rates. This reflects a broader cleanup trend in DeFi, similar to Aave's previous practice of adjusting mortgage parameters when restoring WETH loan-to-value ratios in affected v3 markets.
What the proposal means for users and the DeFi market
Depositors and borrowers in affected chains or reserve pools may need to pay close attention to their positions, as the abandonment of reserve pools may change borrowing availability and prompt users to close positions or migrate. The governance discussion thread will be the main venue where these changes will be finalized.
As reserve pools gradually close, liquidity in target markets may flow out or be transferred to other deployments, diverting capital to deployments that Aave chooses to retain. Users holding market positions related to Aave should pay attention to ARFC voting to understand the timing and scope.
A cleanup of this magnitude also marks a broader trend towards efficiency and centralization in the DeFi lending space-a theme that is particularly evident as regulators and agreements revisit structures, such as Malta's proposal to create a new DAO category in its DeFi rulebook. The actual impact here still depends on the outcome of the governance vote.
