Aave Labs has submitted an ARFC proposal to upgrade Aave V3 to V3.8, a security-focused release whose main change is a reentrancy guard on Pool operations during external callbacks. The guard uses transient storage (EIP-1153), making the protection cheap enough to apply where gas costs previously ruled it out. The rollout targets active V3 instances across Ethereum (Core and Lido), Plasma, Avalanche, BNB, Monad, Base, Arbitrum, Mantle, X Layer, Polygon, Linea, Optimism, Gnosis, MegaETH, and Celo. V3.8 will be licensed under a Business Source License until Governance sets a change date, with IP transferred to the Aave Foundation via a separate proposal. Certora and third-party audits precede the AIP; next steps are ARFC feedback, then Snapshot confirmation.

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TradersTrader calls tracked by Elfa · not advice

Positioning · AAVE

Open181 open positions · 178 long · 3 short

Tracked accounts lean long about 97% of the time, so a long-heavy book is normal, not a signal. As of 22 Oct 02:27 UTC.

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Crowding93rd percentile · vs last 28 days, 50 typical
Pulse 24h91/100 · unusualness of new calls, 0–100, 50 typical, higher means more long than usual
Book97.4% long · 11,036 accounts

As of 22 Oct 06:50 UTC.

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