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There are more EVM L2s now than there are countries in the eurozone.
Morpho Blue · Aave V3 · 11 chains · scoring refreshed every 5 min
There are more EVM L2s now than there are countries in the eurozone.
BAL supply on Aave V3 (Ethereum). Read-only on Sharpe — deposits, withdrawals, and borrows execute on app.aave.com. We surface parameters, rates, and risk so you can compare this reserve against Morpho vaults on the same asset cohort.
Plain-English summary of this vault — what it does, who runs it, where the yield comes from, and what could break it. Generated from the same deterministic inputs shown elsewhere on this page; the numbers are the source, this is just the explanation.
You deposit BAL (Balancer's governance token) and it gets lent out to borrowers on Ethereum. You earn 1.60% annually on your deposit, paid from the interest borrowers pay. BAL is borrow-only here—you cannot use it as collateral to borrow other assets. Your deposit is redeemable at the $13.2k available liquidity; the reserve's supply cap ($16.2k) is already full, so new deposits may fail.
Aave governance has designated this reserve borrow-only and set a $16.2k supply cap, signaling deliberate constraint on BAL exposure. The cap is now fully consumed.
The 1.60% supply APY comes from borrowers paying 11.62% variable interest; Aave keeps 20% of that interest as reserve factor, leaving 80% for suppliers. Utilization is 18%, well below saturation, so the rate should remain stable unless borrow demand shifts materially.
The supply cap is fully consumed—new deposits will revert until existing supply falls. BAL is a governance token with no backing asset and limited on-chain liquidity; any collapse in Balancer's governance value flows directly to this reserve's solvency.
Avoid—the supply cap is full and entry is blocked. If it clears, BAL suits only borrowers comfortable with governance token volatility and willing to pay 11.62% to short it.
On Aave V3, a supplier can withdraw up to the reserve's available liquidity instantly. Above that, the withdrawal must wait for borrowers to repay or new suppliers to deposit. Markets at 95%+ utilization can keep large redemptions waiting for hours to days at current rates.
Reserve parameters are set by Aave governance (BGD Labs + Aave Chan Initiative + Risk Council). Listings, caps, IRM curves, and LLTVs change through on-chain votes.
This reserve isn't usable as collateral, so LTV / Liquidation LLTV / liquidation bonus don't apply. Borrowers can take it against other collateral; suppliers earn the variable rate driven by borrow demand.
On Aave V3, supply APY = borrow APY × utilization × (1 − reserve factor). There is no curator skim; the only intermediation cost is the reserve factor, which funds the Aave treasury. No emissions slice in v1 of this integration — the headline is fully sustainable.
Aave V3 reserves carry parameter risk (LTV/LLTV adequacy vs collateral volatility), liquidity risk (high utilization slows exit), and depeg risk on the underlying. Governance can pause / freeze / adjust caps in response to incidents. Sharpe's full risk decomposition for Aave reserves rolls in v1.1.
How the composite risk score breaks down. Every number traces to an explicit input — /methodology documents each factor's formula.
Per-collateral decomposition: Sharpe-style realized σ from 30 daily log returns, blended 50/50 with the asset-taxonomy tier fallback. Phase 2 will replace the tier slot with liquidity depth, mechanism classification, and holder concentration. Methodology in /methodology.
The honest version. Every structural failure mode this vault is exposed to, ranked by severity. If you want to know whether to invest, start here.
Supply cap is 100% filled. New deposits revert once the cap binds; cap raises require an on-chain governance vote.
Aave V3 prices and liquidations route through Chainlink's aggregator feed for this asset. A stale, manipulated, or wrong-side update is the protocol's largest single-point-of-failure for this reserve. Chainlink has a strong track record but the failure mode is binary.