Aave V4 on Base adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans
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Aave V4 on Base opened a market that lets eligible non-U.S. users borrow USDC against seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks, including Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. The launch is limited to collateral use at first, carries a $21 million initial borrowing cap, and uses Chainlink market data through Coinbase’s oracle feeds for pricing. The market sits in Aave’s V4 Equities Hub on Base, extending stock-backed borrowing in that deployment.
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What it means
Eligible non-U.S. users are the group that can notice this first, because they can now post seven Coinbase-issued stock tokens and borrow USDC on Base. That changes what they can do inside Aave V4’s Equities Hub today: the shares can be used as loan collateral instead of only being held outside the lending market. This affects users in qualifying jurisdictions outside the United States and the Base market on Aave V4.
In practice, the new market adds a stock-backed borrowing route that did not exist in this form before, while keeping the collateral-only setup at launch. The presence of an initial $21 million borrowing cap means the market is not open-ended at the start, even though it is already live.
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 44 days ago | Coinbase adds fixed-rate bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho Midnight event | 2 actors in common · 4 news media |
| 44 days ago | Circle launches Bitcoin-backed USDC borrowing for institutional clients event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |