Aave is a token. It has no blockchain of its own and no consensus of its own — it rents both from the chains it is issued on, which is why it is listed separately from the cryptocurrencies.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | D · 46/100 · provisional, E to C |
|---|---|
| Type | Token |
| Class | DeFi |
| Backing | Non-backed |
| Market capitalisation | $2.0B |
| Price | $131.99 |
| Circulating supply | 15,436,742 AAVE |
| Issued on | 15 chains |
Market data rebuilt every six hours; this build 28 October 2026. Live prices on the ranking.
D — 46 out of 100, provisional (from 8 of 10 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 37 to 57 (E to C).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms | 4.9 | group average |
| Host chain | 7.9 | Issued on Ethereum (A, 79/100) |
| Asset class (below every coin family) | 1.8 | Tokens: below every native coin family on the consensus ladders, 0.9 of 10 by largest asset and 2.7 by combined market cap |
| Network security | 0 | No network of its own: secured by its host chain, scored above |
| Decentralisation | 3.1 | group average, 3 of 4 measured |
| Minting and supply (who can mint more) | 5.4 | AAVE sits behind an EIP-1967 transparent proxy whose admin is Aave governance; the implementation has no admin roles, so supply can only change through a governance-approved upgrade.; no fixed maximum supply source |
| Premine (pre-issued at launch) | 0 | 100% of supply pre-issued at launch. All 16M AAVE were created at the 2020 migration: 13M for LEND holders and 3M placed in the governance-run Ecosystem Reserve, which funds staking and incentives. source |
| Fundraising | 3.8 | Sold to the public or to investors: 62.5% of supply was the insiders' to sell, 62.5% sold. ETHLend ICO Nov-Dec 2017 sold ~1B LEND (incl. a 60M pre-sale) for ~$16-18M; in July 2020 Framework Ventures and Three Arrows bought $3M of LEND at $0.10 from the team, and ParaFi bought LEND in a team token sale. source |
| Holder concentration | — | Not yet measured |
| Supply & Demand | 9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand | 8.1 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 8.1 | $95,644,042 traded in 24 hours; #29 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $106,810,829) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 10 | 5.0% of its market cap a day, median of the last 3 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8 | $5,203,738 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.26% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days; a lower bound: the books returned by 1 of them stop short of 2% |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 8.3 | $2.0B, 8.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6.3 | futures, options and margin positions 14% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.8 | fixed maximum supply of 16 million |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
Ten criteria, weighted equally — for a token, the host chain replaces the developer share, the asset class stands in for the consensus ladders, and who can mint more for the Cryptocurrency Standards. Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
| Pre-issued at launch | 100% of supply |
|---|---|
| To team, investors and treasury | 18.75% of supply |
| Sold to the public or to investors | 62.5% of supply |
| Who can mint more | New tokens only through token-holder governance |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
All 16M AAVE were created at the 2020 migration: 13M for LEND holders and 3M placed in the governance-run Ecosystem Reserve, which funds staking and incentives.
ETHLend ICO Nov-Dec 2017 sold ~1B LEND (incl. a 60M pre-sale) for ~$16-18M; in July 2020 Framework Ventures and Three Arrows bought $3M of LEND at $0.10 from the team, and ParaFi bought LEND in a team token sale.
AAVE sits behind an EIP-1967 transparent proxy whose admin is Aave governance; the implementation has no admin roles, so supply can only change through a governance-approved upgrade.
ICO sale share is 1B of 1.3B LEND per the ICO listing ('76.92% public'); Coin Bureau says 'nearly 1B' sold, so the 62.5% sold share is approximate. The 2020 private LEND sales came out of the team allocation, so they don't add to the total.
Sources: docs.aave.com · cryptopotato.com · theblock.co · github.com. Researched 2026-10-23, medium confidence.
It is issued on 15 chains, which means 15 separate issuances of the same claim. Linked names are chains that are themselves cryptocurrencies with a page here.
CoinSpectrum counts an asset once. A token has neither its own blockchain nor its own consensus mechanism, so it fails both of the site's two conditions — it is a thing issued on a chain, and the chain is what is counted. The methodology states the rule, and the argument for it is set out in full.
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