Aave Labs Buys Avon Team to Build Fixed-Rate Lending
Terms were not disclosed. Fixed-rate markets are planned work, not a live Aave product in Friday's post, which cites over $33B in deposits.
Aave Labs said Friday it has acquired the team and technology behind Avon, a startup that built fixed-rate and floating-rate lending markets and an onchain order book, as the network works to add fixed-rate loans to a platform it says holds more than $33 billion in deposits.
The Aave Labs blog post does not disclose financial terms. Prince Sinha and Ayush Kaul are joining the Labs engineering team, and Omar el-Ashaal is joining business development. Avon's fixed- and floating-rate protocols, order book, domains and related assets move with the team. PYMNTS reported the same deal from a Friday release.
How fixed-rate lending differs onchain
Most large DeFi lending pools, including Aave's core markets, set borrow rates that float with supply and demand. A fixed-rate loan locks the interest cost for a set term, the way many bank mortgages and corporate credit lines work. Avon's order book was built to match lenders and borrowers for those structures while isolating risk by strategy. Fixed-rate markets on Aave are planned work. Friday's post does not describe a live fixed-rate product.
Aave Labs describes Aave as the largest onchain lending network, with more than $33 billion in deposits and more than $13 billion in active loans in the blog post (an about section on the same page cites more than $30 billion in net deposits). The network is governed by the Aave DAO; Friday's buyer is the Labs contributor entity. The post does not describe a DAO treasury purchase.
"Aave's goal is to bring the best of finance to everyone, and that means offering the kinds of products users already rely on, including fixed rates," founder and CEO Stani Kulechov said in the post. Sinha said the team wants to keep building credit-market depth where it can reach institutions, fintechs and everyday users at scale.
In our opinion: Aave is buying the team that was already wiring bank-style fixed rates into DeFi, and the price tag stays off the page. That is one way to skip a multi-year build. What to watch next is a public timeline, a test deployment of the order book, or an Aave DAO vote on parameters once Labs is ready to ship.
Sources: Aave Labs blog · PYMNTS
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