Aave Horizon TVL Surges Past $300M as RLUSD Dominates Markets, GHO Expands Rapidly, and Incentives Renew for USDC Borrows and RLUSD Lending

Aave’s new Horizon market has quickly grown to more than $300 million in TVL, driven primarily by strong demand for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, fast expansion of Aave’s native GHO stablecoin on the venue, and renewed incentive programs targeting USDC borrows and RLUSD lending. This positions Horizon as a meaningful but still relatively small part of Aave’s overall activity, focused on real‑world‑asset and yield-bearing collateral while experimenting with targeted liquidity incentives. According to Aave governance forum updates, Horizon TVL has climbed from under $100 million in its early weeks to over $300 million, with more than $75 million in net borrows and roughly $157 million in stablecoin supply. RLUSD has emerged as the largest supplied asset, repeatedly hitting its initial supply caps (raised from $25 million to $30 million and then $40 million) as a result of a dedicated rewards campaign run via Merkl. At the same time, borrowing demand has grown across both USDC and RLUSD, supported by an incentivized USDC borrow market where Aave increased the base rate to 2.5% to keep yields attractive for suppliers. GHO supply has also been scaling rapidly across Aave deployments, with earlier metrics showing GHO surpassing $300 million in circulating supply protocol‑wide, reinforcing Aave’s broader push to grow its native stablecoin alongside third‑party assets. Strategically, Horizon is part of Aave’s real‑world‑asset and institutional‑facing efforts, and current data suggests it still represents well under 1% of total Aave borrowing across all markets, indicating substantial room for growth if demand for RLUSD, GHO, and other tokenized assets continues to build. The renewed incentive structure around USDC and RLUSD on Horizon illustrates how Aave governance is using targeted rewards and parameter changes (like interest rate tweaks and supply caps) to bootstrap liquidity and borrowing activity in newer markets while managing risk exposure to novel collateral types.

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