Aave Aptos

Aave Aptos receives a B- risk grade (29/100) from Hindenrank, where lower scores indicate lower risk. Aave Aptos benefits from the strongest brand and governance in DeFi lending, but its complete Move rewrite and reliance on a younger oracle ecosystem add meaningful risk compared to Aave on Ethereum. The deployment is maturing — now past its first year with a clean security record and active development — but thin TVL limits liquidator competition and leaves the exposure impact of any incident relatively contained. Aave Aptos is the first non-EVM deployment of Aave, the world's largest decentralized lending protocol. It brings Aave's battle-tested overcollateralized lending to the Aptos blockchain, allowing users to deposit assets like APT, USDC, USDT, and sUSDe to earn yield, or borrow against their deposits. The protocol was built from scratch in Move language to match Aave V3.3's financial logic while leveraging Aptos's high throughput. With approximately $7M in TVL, it is an early-stage deployment backed by the full Aave governance and security apparatus, including multiple audits (Certora, Spearbit, Ottersec).

The key risks identified for Aave Aptos are: (1) The entire codebase was rewritten in Move — new code always carries higher bug risk than battle-tested Solidity. (2) Aptos's oracle ecosystem (Pyth, Switchboard) is less proven than Ethereum's Chainlink feeds for liquidation-critical price data. (3) Aave Aptos is not covered by Aave's Immunefi bug bounty program, leaving no formal financial incentive for Move-specific vulnerability discovery.

Aave Aptos scores 29/100 across eight risk dimensions: Mechanism Novelty: 2/15, Interaction Severity: 6/20, Oracle Surface: 2/10, Documentation Gaps: 1/10, Track Record: 4/15, Scale Exposure: 7/10, Regulatory Risk: 2/10, Vitality Risk: 5/10. The highest risk area is Scale Exposure at 7/10.

Among 95 rated Lending protocols on Hindenrank, Aave Aptos ranks #14 by safety (lowest risk score = safest). Its 29/100 risk score and B- grade place it among the safer Lending protocols.

Aave Aptos scores 4/15 on the Track Record risk dimension, indicating some history of security incidents or exploits. Higher scores reflect more severe or frequent incidents. Review the full risk report for details.