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Aave Launches Horizon, an Institutional RWA Market for Stablecoin Loans

Issuer-controlled collateral meets open liquidity to balance compliance requirements with DeFi access.

Overview

  • Institutional borrowers can now post tokenized real‑world assets such as U.S. Treasuries and CLOs to borrow USDC, RLUSD, or GHO on Horizon, which is live on Ethereum.
  • Built on a permissioned version of Aave V3, the market embeds issuer-level compliance in collateral tokens while leaving stablecoin lending pools permissionless and composable.
  • Chainlink’s Onchain NAV (NAVLink) supplies real-time fund valuations to support automated, overcollateralized lending and continuous monitoring of collateral.
  • Initial collateral and ecosystem partners include Superstate, Circle, Centrifuge, VanEck, WisdomTree, Securitize, Ethena, OpenEden, Hamilton Lane, and Ripple’s RLUSD.
  • Risk oversight for the new market involves third-party reviewers Llama Risk and Chaos Labs, as Aave targets short-term financing and yield strategies for qualified institutions.