Aave V4 Adds Coinbaseized Stocks as Collateral for $USDC Loans on Base

Aave has announced a Base equities market designed to accept seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral for $USDC loans, with an initial borrowing cap of $21 million. The arrangement lets eligible holders of the tokens unlock liquidity without giving up their exposure to the underlying shares.

According to a Sep. 25 post on X, the Equities Hub covers tokens tied to Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. Aave's published Base deployment proposal lists the same seven assets but still sets out governance votes as steps before deployment.

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are live on Aave V4 on @base. Tokenized stocks are only available in eligible jurisdictions outside of the U.S. pic.twitter.com/VOL363Ihd9 — Aave (@aave) September 25, 2026

Aave V4 sets separate limits for each stock

Within the proposed market, the seven stocks serve only as collateral. Users cannot borrow the equity tokens, nor can they borrow one stock token against another, according to Aave's governance materials. $USDC is the sole borrowable asset.

Aave has set a $32 million limit on $USDC supplied to the main lending market and a $21 million limit on $USDC borrowed. LlamaRisk, the protocol's risk provider, put the combined initial stock collateral cap at roughly $29 million. The limits describe how large positions can become; they do not measure deposits or loans already made.

Each stock also carries its own borrowing limit relative to its collateral value. Aave's published factors range from 65% for Meta and Tesla to 79% for Microsoft, with Apple at 78%, Alphabet at 76%, Amazon at 73% and Nvidia at 70%. The amount a user can borrow therefore depends on which tokens are deposited, even when several stocks sit in the same position.

Aave's V4 design places the equity positions in a dedicated Equities Hub with a shared $USDC reserve. Suppliers who put $USDC into that hub take on exposure to loans backed by the seven stock tokens, while the equity market's risks remain separate from Aave's other Base markets. A separate supply-only route is intended for $USDC vaults and aggregators.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave Labs, described the lending use: "Until now a tokenized stock was something you could hold or trade. Today it becomes something you can borrow against."

Aave's governance materials describe the Base deployment as a proposal requiring an offchain Snapshot vote followed by an onchain vote. Deployment with the published caps and collateral factors therefore depends on the outcome of those votes.

Chainlink feeds price the collateral around U.S. stock hours

Chainlink supplies the feeds Aave plans to use when valuing each stock token. According to LlamaRisk, the initial feeds publish from Sunday evening through Friday evening Eastern time and retain their last published value over weekends and market holidays.

Loans can operate around the clock, but the shares behind the tokens trade only during U.S. market sessions. LlamaRisk notes that information released while the stock market is closed may appear in the feed as a single price change when publication resumes. The risk provider says that gap matters when setting collateral factors and liquidation terms, because a borrower's position may have less room to absorb a sharp reopening move.

Chainlink expects to provide continuous feeds for the tokens later, LlamaRisk said. The risk provider plans to review the market's settings once those feeds are operating. That shift, and the review that follows, are the next scheduled checkpoints for the market's risk settings. For now, its published design uses the existing schedule and monitors the equity tokens and external markets.

Coinbase's stock products reached Base before the Aave announcement. In August, the exchange introduced four tokens tied to Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia, and September additions brought its lineup to 10. The seven selected for Aave's market are all tied to publicly traded U.S. technology companies. As crypto.news reported at the initial rollout, Coinbase describes the tokens as beneficial interests backed by underlying shares, rather than products that only track stock prices.

U.S. investors remain outside Coinbase's current offering

Coinbase issues the products through an Abu Dhabi-based entity, while Alpaca Securities acts as broker and custodian for the underlying public shares, according to the token prospectus reviewed in the earlier report. The tokens are offered to eligible non-U.S. users and are not registered under the U.S. Securities Act. Their connection to Apple, Nvidia and other American stocks does not make the products available to U.S. investors.

The distinction also applies to the new borrowing use. Base Head of Growth Antonio García-Martínez said eligible customers outside the United States can use the tokens to borrow $USDC, while suppliers of $USDC can earn interest. The Equities Hub announcement does not change Coinbase's stated geographic restrictions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has separately opened a conditional, five-year route for certain tokenized U.S. stocks to trade on qualifying permissioned venues. In coverage of the SEC relief, analysts identified Coinbase as a company that could seek to use the route, while noting that its existing offshore products would need to meet the applicable U.S. conditions. The Aave announcement concerns lending against Coinbase's current tokens on Base, not authorization for those tokens to be offered to U.S. persons.

Aave is also pursuing another tokenized-asset lending market. On Sep. 16, it outlined an Avalanche credit hub where institutions would borrow Tether's USA₮ against tokenized assets. The Base proposal, by contrast, names seven Coinbase stock tokens as collateral and $USDC as the loan asset.

$AAVE price approaches $155 resistance

On the daily chart, $AAVE rose slightly to $147.41 after reaching $150.14 during the session. The token traded above its Supertrend line at $117.29, while the Aroon Up reading of 85.71% exceeded Aroon Down at 35.71%, pointing to a stronger upward trend.

$AAVE now faces resistance at $155.43, with the nearest marked support at $134.56. A daily close above $155.43 would put the token beyond the upper boundary shown on the chart. If the price pulls back instead, the marked levels below are $134.56 and $118.18, with the Supertrend line near the latter.