Aave V4 filings map a three-chain expansion
Aave is proposing V4 expansion across three chains, including a permissioned USAT-GHO module on Avalanche and tokenized SpaceX stock as collateral on Base.
Separate filings cover Avalanche’s stablecoin infrastructure and an equity collateral listing on Base.
Tempo Mainnet launched March 18, 2026 — chain ID 4217, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, built specifically for stablecoin use cases, per the Tempo deployment proposal. No native gas token. Users pay fees in USD-denominated stablecoins, with pathUSD as the default.
The proposed Aave structure would run a Core Hub with a Main Spoke and an RWA Spoke underneath. Core Hub supports borrowing pathUSD and OUSD against collateral. Main Spoke lists cbBTC and OUSD as collateral for OUSD borrowing; the RWA Spoke lists PRIME for the same. Two distinct collateral lanes from day one — crypto-linked in one spoke, PRIME in the other. The proposal leaves the final risk parameters to later analyses by Aave DAO risk service providers.
The Avalanche filing takes a different approach entirely. TokenLogic is proposing a Permissioned GHO Stability Module — a GSM — whose first application would support USAT, a USD-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. The mechanism exchanges waUSAT for GHO and GHO for waUSAT. Proposed initial funding sits at 65,000,000 GHO against a waUSAT Exposure Cap of 20,000,000 waUSAT. That’s a ratio of 3.25 GHO per waUSAT of exposure capacity — a proposed funding-to-cap relationship, not a conversion price, and not a guarantee either figure gets deployed.
On Base, the SPCXc listing proposal would add Coinbase’s B20 tokenized form of SpaceX Class A common stock — listed as SPCXc — to the pooled lending spoke of Aave V4’s Equities Hub. LlamaRisk supports the onboarding.
The proposed parameters impose a more restrictive and risk-sensitive profile than the comparable listings, though not in the same direction on every measure. SPCXc gets a 0.55 collateral factor, ten percentage points lower than META and TSLA. Maximum liquidation bonus is proposed at 6.5%, one point above the Magnificent Seven. Collateral risk lands at 1,000 basis points; the Magnificent Seven are at zero. The differences run in different directions: SPCXc has a lower collateral factor, a higher liquidation bonus and a higher collateral-risk setting. In the desk’s reading, those settings amount to a more restrictive risk profile.
Proposed add cap is 37,000 SPCXc, approximately $5.8 million at current prices — implying a reference value of roughly $156.76 per token, though the filing labels that dollar figure as approximate.
The rationale for tighter parameters comes down to share structure. The proposal puts SpaceX at a $2.33 trillion valuation with only 21% of shares currently tradable. A 180-day lock-up is set to release another 2.43 billion shares — described as 84% of the current float — between October 26 and December 8, 2026. The proposal cites $14 billion to $16 billion in daily SpaceX stock volume.
SPCXc’s approval would extend the Equities Hub beyond its initial seven Coinbase tokenized stocks: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. That hub launched September 25, 2026, letting eligible non-U.S. users borrow USDC$0.9998▲0.01% against those assets, according to The Block. The SPCXc proposal was published October 15, twenty days after launch.
Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs founder and CEO, told The Block: “Until now a tokenized stock was something you could hold or trade. Today it becomes something you can borrow against.”
Eligible non-U.S. Base users would gain a proposed route to borrow against SPCXc — capped at 37,000 tokens, subject to the 0.55 collateral factor and 6.5% liquidation bonus.