DeFi wins when it’s not just innovative, but practical.
When the efficiency of DeFi meets the ubiquity of traditional markets, DeFi stops being a niche experiment and becomes the backbone of global finance.
With Project Horizon, Aave Labs is taking that next step, bringing real-world assets onchain and building the infrastructure institutions need to participate at scale.
Introducing Project Horizon—our new initiative at Aave Labs focused on building institutional DeFi products.
Getting institutions onchain requires purpose-built solutions that integrate RWAs into DeFi while maintaining its core value props.
Through Horizon, we'll take the best of Aave’s tech stack and adapt it for RWAs and institutional use cases.
We've watched RWAs take off. Onchain Treasuries alone have hit $4B TVL, up 408% YoY.
But DeFi is still missing the infrastructure institutions need to participate at scale. We're going to fix this.
Horizon builds on lessons from Aave Arc, creating a path for institutions to access permissionless stablecoin liquidity.
Our first product will support tokenized MMFs as collateral, allowing institutions to borrow USDC and GHO.
To start, we've proposed a licensed instance of the Aave Protocol to the Aave DAO. We'll use this licensed instance as a building block for all projects under the Horizon initiative.
And there’s more coming—we’ll share details on another collaboration soon.
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Aave has been a pillar of DeFi for years. Now, through Horizon, we're bringing Aave's tech to institutions and moving closer to becoming a pillar of global finance.
