Aave V4 on Base adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans

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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.

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.