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The math behind it

Each of the six chains generates under $5,000 in quarterly protocol revenue — far below the cost of keeping oracle feeds and risk monitoring live.

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How much is affected

Reporting on the proposal puts combined supplied assets across the six chains near $98.1 million, with about $15.6 million in outstanding debt.

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A small slice of the whole

Together, the six chains represent under 1% of Aave's roughly $14 billion in total assets across more than twenty active deployments.

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Not a security response

None of the six chains is flagged as compromised. The case made is economic: marginal revenue no longer justifies the maintenance overhead.

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Still needs a vote

The proposal has to clear Aave's governance stages before any market actually closes — it had not completed that process as of early August.

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