Aave v4 is not a version of Aave v3
It is a different protocol with a different mental model. You no longer pick a lending market — you pick a spoke, and spokes cannot see each other.
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Collecting fees you have already earned requires borrowing money
On a leveraged Uniswap position, taking the fees you are owed needs a flash loan first. Not a quirk of ours — a consequence of what collateral means.
ReadMoving a levered range means burning it first
A Uniswap range cannot be edited, only replaced. Under leverage that means clearing the debt to burn it, and re-establishing the debt on the new one.
ReadNever fill a gap with a zero
Four rules our market history follows: never average two venues, never fill a gap, never keep two copies, and never include a series that lies about itself.
ReadSplitting a range down the middle was always wrong
Splitting a Uniswap range used to happen at the geometric midpoint and nowhere else. Some ranges could not be split at all, and the failure said nothing.
ReadThe hedge is the one step you place yourself
Three operations do nothing on purpose. They are instructions for a person, carried in the plan so a hedge sits in the right order beside what it protects.
ReadThe skew matters more than the hedge decision
One assumed parameter moves a hedging result by more than the gap between hedging and not hedging. We measured it instead, and it is not one number.
ReadYour swap screen tells you a price, not what routing saved you
Every quote answers what your size costs. The harder question is what size fits a cost you name — and how much of it exists only because of splitting.
ReadWhat is an agentic wallet?
A wallet an AI agent can spend from without asking you each time. The whole design question is what stops it, and the answers differ.
ReadOnly USDC crosses, and it takes fifteen minutes
Most plans span more than one chain without mentioning it. Two constraints shape every one, and both surprise people.
ReadDeFiLoops and DeFi Saver do different things
The closest thing to a competitor we have, and on most measures it is ahead. Here is what each is actually built for, with the numbers.
ReadAgentic wallets compared: where the limits actually live
Every one of them enforces spending limits. They differ in where the enforcement sits, and that decides what happens when the operator is wrong.
ReadA vault is not an account you own
Deposit into a strategy, or keep the assets and grant a bounded permission. Both are called non-custodial. Only one leaves you holding the position.
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