Aave cuts USDT optimal usage ratio, lifting borrow rate to 4.19%
- —USDT borrow rate on Aave V3 Core rises from 4.10% to 4.19% a year
- —Withdrawal buffer at the optimal point grows from $173.5M to $231.4M
- —USDe supply cap cut from 400M to 300M, LINK from 11.4M to 9M tokens
- —Aave V3.8 adds a reentrancy lock built on EIP-1153 transient storage
Why it matters: The change affects lender yields and borrowing costs in the largest DeFi lending protocol while tightening liquidity risk controls.
Source: CryptoTicker