[TEMP CHECK] Deploy Aave v3 on X Layer

[TokenLogic]

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title: [TEMP CHECK] Deploy Aave v3 on X Layer
Author: @Tokenlogic
Created: 2025-09-12

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Summary

This TEMP CHECK seeks the community’s input on deploying Aave v3 on X Layer, an upcoming blockchain designed to support DeFi, payments, and broader financial use cases.

Motivation

Aave Protocol has expanded to 16 networks and consistently ranks among the largest protocols by TVL and usage. As X Layer prepares for launch, this presents a strategic opportunity for Aave to integrate into a new chain with strong ambitions around payments, DeFi adoption, and liquidity growth.

X Layer is expected to act as both a payment-focused network and a DeFi hub, creating new avenues for user onboarding, real-world adoption, and capital efficiency. This alignment has the potential to significantly grow Aave’s reach, strengthen user acquisition, and capture fresh liquidity.

X Layer’s vision is to serve as a general-purpose platform for payments and DeFi, connecting users and businesses with on-chain opportunities. The core focus will be on building infrastructure that enhances both financial accessibility and scalable DeFi applications.

Key aspects of X Layer’s positioning include:

• Payments at the core: Designed to support payment use cases as a primary function of the network
• DeFi expansion: A strong emphasis on lending, borrowing, and liquidity markets as a foundation for the ecosystem.
• Seamless onboarding: Infrastructure that allows users to easily transition from traditional finance to DeFi with minimal friction.
• Scaling Ethereum: X Layer will offer Ethereum compatibility and a performant execution environment, providing developers and users with the flexibility to deploy existing Solidity-based applications.

By deploying Aave v3 on X Layer, the protocol would position itself as the core liquidity layer for this new ecosystem, benefiting from first-mover advantage and integration with a payment-focused blockchain.

Disclosure

TokenLogic does not receive any payment for this proposal.

Next Steps

1. Gather feedback from the community.
2. If consensus is reached on this TEMP CHECK, escalate this proposal to the Snapshot stage.
3. Publication of a standard ARFC, collect community & service providers feedback before escalating proposal to ARFC snapshot stage.
4. If the ARFC snapshot outcome is YAE, publish an AIP vote for final confirmation and enforcement of the proposal.

Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.

[Akikanga]

This is quite a bold and excellent move that will definately position Aave 3 as the “default lending partner” before the ecosystem grows and competition arrives.

Just quick reflection:

• Now that the X layer is relatively new,could we gather more evidence on its adoption especially the number of users,their liquidity projections now that according to https://cryptorank.io/ they’ve only added 4 projects in the last 3 months?

• X layer is growing and really promising,they have really strong ecosytem backers like Coinbase,SNZ holding et al. We can move in with the integration but with measured steps.