Aave (@aave) — Twitter Score 605 out of 1000

Aave is Aave Protocol, a decentralized non-custodial DeFi liquidity protocol for lending, borrowing, and earning on crypto assets, and the largest DeFi lending platform by total value locked. The protocol was founded by Stani Kulechov, originally launching as ETHLend in 2017 after raising $16.2M in an ICO, before rebranding to Aave in September 2018 and switching from a peer-to-peer to a liquidity pool model. Aave is affiliated with Aave Labs and with Aave DAO, and previously operated under the Avara brand, which was retired in February 2026 with all operations consolidated under Aave Labs. Aave's Twitter Score is 605 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026.

Aave raised a Series A of $4.5M from investors including ParaFi Capital and Framework Ventures, followed by a Series B of $25M from investors including Standard Crypto and Blockchain Capital. Three Arrows Capital, an early backer, was ordered into liquidation in 2022 and is no longer active. Aave V1 deployed on Ethereum mainnet on January 8, 2020, and the protocol reached a peak of $75 billion in deposits in 2025, the highest ever recorded for any DeFi protocol, ending the year at $55 billion with 52.4% of total DeFi lending TVL and 61.5% of active loan market share. Aave V4 launched on Ethereum mainnet with a hub-and-spoke architecture comprising three hubs (Core, Plus, Prime) and eleven spokes, enabling isolated liquidity routing across collateral categories.

Aave issues GHO, a decentralized USD-pegged overcollateralized stablecoin governed by Aave DAO, with 100% of GHO borrow interest flowing directly to the Aave DAO treasury. Aave Horizon launched in August 2025 as an institutional permissioned RWA lending market allowing qualified borrowers to borrow stablecoins against tokenized real-world assets, with deposits exceeding $570 million by year-end 2025; launch partners included Circle, Ripple, VanEck, Securitize, WisdomTree, Superstate, Centrifuge, Hamilton Lane, and Ethena. In October 2025, Aave Labs acquired Stable Finance, a San Francisco-based consumer stablecoin savings fintech. Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph originally launched by Aave Companies in 2022, raised a $31M strategic round led by Lightspeed Faction in December 2024, with stewardship subsequently transferred to Mask Network.

Aave passed the "Aave Will Win" governance framework in April 2026 with approximately 75% support, redirecting 100% of protocol and Aave-branded product revenue to the Aave DAO and AAVE token holders and approving a $25M multi-year funding grant for Aave Labs. Aavenomics 3.0, previewed in June 2026, proposes replacing the discretionary $1M per week committee-directed AAVE buyback program with an immutable, automated on-chain mechanism routing all Aave Protocol and GHO revenue directly to AAVE holders. It has published 8,101 posts on X. It has been mentioned by 1,928 accounts, with 8,289 total mentions.

Who follows Aave on X?

Aave has 698,587 followers as of July 2026 on X and is ranked #188 (top 0.1%) out of 389,613 accounts tracked on this platform. The accounts that follow Aave include 2,119 founders, 473 angel investors, 1,364 influencers and 175 VCs, among them Solana, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Toly, Ansem and Stani. Notable connections tracked include Sonic, Aavegotchi, BEN, Syndicate, Universe, Delta Exchange, orb.club and Stable.