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Daily Crypto · DeFi · VC Brief
SUN · AUGUST 9, 2026
preservation · privacy · community · media · compounding
Breaking · last 24-48h
BTC
~$65,000
▲ +1% / 24h · jobs-miss rally holding · whales +$1.2B this week
ETH
~$1,915
▲ flat-to-up · holding $1,850+ · ETH funds back to inflows ($53.1M Aug 5)
AVAX
$6.47
▼ −1.0% / 24h · rank #28 · mcap $2.79B · Aave v4 now live on Avalanche
Fear & Greed
50
◆ Neutral · token-level gauges (e.g. AVAX) still print 29 Fear
DeFi TVL
~$73B
▲ July +5.3%, first monthly gain of 2026 (vs ~$115B in Jan)
Stablecoin Mcap
$297.6B
▲ 278M+ holders · GENIUS Act reserve demand building
RWA Onchain
$36.8B
▲ new ATH Aug 2 · 1.35M+ holders · 106+ asset managers
BTC Difficulty
126.23T
◆ retarget ~+0.84% landed Aug 8 · hashrate ~918 EH/s · hashprice ~$32

1 · DeFi / Decentralized Finance

Protocol launches, DEX/AMM activity, lending rates, bridges, hacks, DAO governance, TVL moves.

Total DeFi TVL
~$73B
▲ July +5.3% — first monthly gain of 2026 after 7 straight down-months
Aave v4 Deposits
$300M
▲ across Ethereum + Avalanche · $100M in active loans
2026 DeFi Hack Losses
$840M+
▼ KelpDAO's $290M leads · bridges = 2 of top 3 exploits
Aave Chain Pruning
6 chains
◆ Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, Aptos — $12.8M affected
Last 24–48 Hours
Grayscale adds AAVE to its DeFi Fund at a near-20% allocation
CoinMarketCap AI · Aug 6 · source
The quarterly rebalance puts AAVE alongside Uniswap (34.16%), Ondo Finance (25.44%) and Ethena (12.19%) in Grayscale's DeFi basket.
Passive institutional flows now mechanically buy blue-chip DeFi governance tokens — a quiet but durable bid under AAVE/UNI/ONDO.
Stani Kulechov publicly opposes the ETH issuance-cut staking proposal
CoinMarketCap AI · Aug 5 · source
Aave's founder warned that cutting ETH issuance could centralize staking and compress DeFi yields across the lending stack.
A rare open clash between Ethereum monetary policy and DeFi's biggest lender — the outcome shapes base yields for the entire ecosystem.
MMT jumps 32% as Binance completes Momentum's BNB Chain integration
CoinStats · Aug 7-8 · source
Binance opened MMT deposits/withdrawals on BEP20 and launched a trading tournament with a 2M-token prize pool; volume hit $127.9M.
CEX distribution remains the single fastest TVL/volume unlock for a mid-cap DeFi token — a playbook worth tracking for AVAX-native names.
This Week
Aave v4 launches on Avalanche — its first deployment outside Ethereum
HOKANews / Pluang · this week · source · source 2
V4's institutional-grade lending architecture is live on Avalanche C-Chain, with $300M in deposits and $100M in active loans across the two chains.
Avalanche chosen as the first external chain for DeFi's largest lender is a direct validation of KWIZERANA's home network.
Uniswap launches "Earn" with Morpho — Gauntlet-curated lending vaults
CoinMarketCap AI · this week · source
Uniswap now offers yield through curated Morpho vaults, pushing the DEX beyond swaps into portfolio management.
Front-end aggregation of lending yield collapses the DEX/money-market boundary — distribution, not protocol design, is becoming the moat.
Aave proposes retiring deployments on six low-activity chains
CoinMarketCap AI · this week · source
Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos — each generating under $5K quarterly revenue — face wind-down, affecting $12.8M in supplied assets.
The multichain land-grab era is over; protocols are consolidating liquidity onto chains that actually pay. Avalanche made the cut — most L2s didn't.

Key Trends

  • Consolidation into blue chips: Aave and Uniswap are simultaneously expanding product surface (v4, Earn) while pruning dead chains — TVL is concentrating, not fragmenting.
  • TVL inflection watch: July's +5.3% was the first monthly TVL gain of 2026; a second consecutive up-month in August would confirm the bottom of the DeFi bear cycle.
  • Bridge risk is structural: two of 2026's three largest exploits hit cross-chain message verification (KelpDAO $290M); $840M+ lost YTD keeps institutions on canonical chains.

Ones to Watch

  • Morpho: now powering Uniswap Earn on top of $11B+ network deposits — quietly becoming DeFi's embedded lending layer.
  • Aave v4 on Avalanche: deposit growth here is the cleanest read on institutional appetite for AVAX-chain DeFi — direct relevance to KWIZERANA treasury strategy.

2 · Privacy & Security

Wallet and protocol hacks, ZK tech, regulatory crackdowns, audits, onchain forensics.

2026 DeFi Losses
$840M+
▼ cumulative through mid-2026 · bridges dominate
Coldcard Exploit
$70M+
▼ hardware-wallet drain · CZ urges multi-wallet split
Zeus Wallet Breach
$0 lost
▲ Aug 5 attack contained in hours · self-custody held
SecondFi (Cardano)
$2.5M
▼ ADA wallet exploit forced permanent shutdown
Last 24–48 Hours
Zeus Wallet suspends operations after Aug 5 cyberattack — no funds lost
Cryptonomist · Aug 7 · source
The Lightning wallet contained the breach within hours; its self-custodial architecture meant users kept control of their BTC throughout.
A live demonstration that self-custody architecture limits blast radius — the core argument for KWIZERANA's privacy-first stack.
CZ calls for wallet diversification after the $70M Coldcard exploit
CoinDesk · Aug 1 · source
The Binance founder urged holders to split funds across multiple wallets after a major security failure in popular Coldcard hardware devices.
The industry's loudest voice just endorsed multi-wallet operational security as the default — hardware wallets are no longer assumed safe.
SecondFi plans ZK-proof refund portal for hack victims in early September
Cryptonomist · Jul 27 · source
After a $2.5M ADA exploit forced permanent shutdown, affected users will prove wallet ownership and claim compensation without revealing seed phrases or keys.
First real-world use of ZK proofs for hack restitution — a privacy-preserving compensation template other protocols will copy.
This Week
Massive Zcash exploit found by Claude — counterfeit-ZEC risk, extent unknown
Yahoo Finance · this week · source
A critical flaw in the cryptography protecting Zcash's private transactions could in theory have allowed unlimited undetected counterfeit ZEC; no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.
Privacy coins' shielded pools make exploitation invisible by design — the exact property that protects users also hides counterfeiting. Core risk lesson for any privacy chain.
Deep dive: why ZK-proof verification-logic bugs keep costing crypto
KuCoin Research · this week · source
Investigative report traces a pattern: the math is sound, but verifier implementation bugs (skipped checks, malformed-input handling) are the recurring failure mode.
As ZK becomes DeFi's scaling and privacy backbone, verifier-logic audits — not circuit audits — are where the real risk sits.
Bridge exploits dominate 2026: same structural weakness, $840M+ gone
Phemex / Sherwood · YTD analysis · source · source 2
KelpDAO's $290M hack — 2026's largest — triggered a $13B DeFi TVL flush; attackers keep exploiting the same cross-chain message-verification weaknesses.
Cross-chain verification is crypto's most expensive unsolved problem; minimizing bridge exposure remains the highest-ROI security decision a DAO treasury can make.

Key Trends

  • Hardware wallets lose their halo: the Coldcard drain plus CZ's diversification call mark a shift — single-device cold storage is now treated as a single point of failure.
  • ZK's failure mode is implementation, not math: Zcash's verifier flaw and the KuCoin report both point to verification-logic bugs as the emerging attack class of 2026.
  • AI enters the audit loop on both sides: Claude surfaced the Zcash flaw, while Coinkite's AI-assisted review reportedly missed the Coldcard bug — AI auditing is powerful but not a substitute for layered review.

Ones to Watch

  • SecondFi's ZK refund portal (early Sept): if it works, ZK-based restitution becomes standard post-hack infrastructure.
  • Zcash's disclosure follow-up: any evidence the counterfeiting flaw was exploited would hit the entire privacy-coin sector's supply credibility.

3 · Mining

BTC hashrate and difficulty, hardware, pools, post-halving profitability, AI pivots.

Network Difficulty
126.23T
◆ ~14% below 2026 high · retarget ~+0.84% landed Aug 8
Hashrate
~918 EH/s
▼ ~19% off record highs · still below 1 ZH/s
Hashprice
~$32
▼ per PH/s/day — at or below breakeven for many fleets
Prior Adjustment
−0.74%
◆ Jul 25 · followed 2026's second-largest drop (−10%)
Last 24–48 Hours
Difficulty retarget lands ~+0.84% — first positive adjustment after declines
CoinWarz · Aug 8 · source
The adjustment at block 961,251-area printed slightly positive off the 126.23T base, ending the down-streak that included July's −0.74% and the earlier −10% drop.
A positive retarget with hashprice at breakeven means surviving miners are betting on Q4 price strength — capitulation phase may be ending.
Hashrate Index roundup: hashprice pinned at ~$32, little relief expected
Hashrate Index · Aug 3 · source
At $32/PH/day, revenue sits at or below breakeven depending on power cost and machine model; miners expect little recovery for the rest of 2026.
Sustained breakeven hashprice forces the weakest fleets offline — setting up stronger margins for efficient survivors when price turns.
Difficulty now 14% below 2026 high as plunging revenue forces pivots
CoinDesk · Aug 1 · source
The 19.1% hashrate drop from records stems from weak mining economics, capital shifting to AI, and reduced capacity in major mining regions.
Network security economics are being repriced in real time — and freed-up power capacity is flowing straight into AI compute.
This Week
Second-largest difficulty drop of 2026 (−10%) reshapes ASIC margins
CryptoPotato / BT Miners · recent · source · source 2
With hashrate at ~918 EH/s and difficulty down 10%, per-machine economics improved meaningfully for late-gen ASICs still running.
Difficulty relief is the only margin lever miners get in a flat-price regime — it disproportionately rewards low-cost power operators.
Listed miners redirect energy and compute toward AI data centers
DEXTools News / Yahoo · ongoing · source · source 2
Public miners keep shifting capacity to AI/HPC as alternative revenue; how much they redirect will shape hashrate through year-end.
The AI pivot puts a structural ceiling on hashrate growth — bullish for remaining pure-play miners' share of block rewards.
Mining economics reset: hashprice breakeven forces operator consolidation
Hashrate Index · this week · source
With revenue recovery unlikely in 2026, smaller operators face sell-or-pivot decisions while majors with sub-5c power absorb market share.
Mining is consolidating into an infrastructure oligopoly — long-term censorship-resistance implications worth monitoring for any privacy-first DAO.

Key Trends

  • Breakeven grind: hashprice ~$32/PH/day has revenue at/below cost for much of the network — a war of attrition won by cheap power and new-gen ASICs.
  • AI is the release valve: miners aren't dying, they're converting — energy and racks flow to AI/HPC, capping hashrate near 918 EH/s and below the 1 ZH/s milestone.
  • Difficulty finding a floor: after −10% and −0.74% adjustments, the ~+0.84% Aug 8 retarget hints the shakeout is stabilizing.

Ones to Watch

  • Hashprice at $32: a break below ~$30 would trigger the next capitulation wave; a recovery above $35 signals the cycle turned.
  • Miner AI-deal announcements: each conversion of mining capacity to HPC contracts re-rates the sector — watch Q3 earnings season.

4 · Liquidity & Airdrops

Confirmed airdrops, farming/point systems, protocol incentives, TGEs, IDOs.

PROPR TGE
Aug 24
▲ 20% genesis airdrop at TGE · 1B fixed supply
QUID (Squid) TGE
Aug 4
▲ live · Binance Alpha listing + airdrop claim
August TGE Lineup
4+
◆ FOLD · PROPR · RSGP · VBA — mixed unlock models
Tria Mystery Boxes
Aug 31
▲ Season 3 points (1–1.5 pts per $1 spend) start opening monthly
Last 24–48 Hours
MMT trading tournament goes live with 2M-token voucher prize pool
CoinStats · Aug 7-8 · source
Following Momentum's BEP20 integration, Binance opened deposits/withdrawals and a tournament; MMT gained 32.2% on $127.9M volume.
Exchange-incentive campaigns are the new airdrop meta — token distribution via trading comps instead of snapshot drops.
Squid (QUID) completes TGE with Binance Alpha listing and airdrop
Coingabbar · Aug 4+ · source
Trading and TGE both ran Aug 4; eligible users claim the QUID airdrop through the Alpha portal with tokenomics fully published.
Binance Alpha has become the default launchpad for airdrop-heavy TGEs — farming Alpha eligibility is now its own strategy.
August airdrop board refreshes: active claims and new campaigns listed
Airdrops.io · rolling · source
The August 2026 list tracks live claim windows and confirmed upcoming distributions across chains.
Claim windows expire — a weekly sweep of the active list is the cheapest way to avoid leaving confirmed allocations unclaimed.
This Week
PROPR confirms Aug 24 TGE: 20% genesis airdrop, investor tokens fully unlocked
Coingabbar · this week · source
Fixed 1B supply, 20% distributed at genesis, and investment-round tokens unlocked at launch — an aggressive full-float model for the prop-trading transparency project.
Fully-unlocked TGEs remove the overhang but concentrate sell pressure on day one — watch listing-day depth before touching it.
RSGP launches alongside Cambria's Genesis mainnet and Gold Rush S4
Coingabbar · August · source
The gaming-economy token ships with the project's mainnet launch this month, tying emission to live game seasons.
Token launches coupled to shipped product (not promises) are outperforming in this cycle's TGE cohort.
Tria Season 3 mystery boxes begin opening Aug 31
Spendnode · this week · source
Card-spend points (1–1.5 per $1) feed monthly mystery boxes — the gamified points meta migrating from DeFi to payments.
Spend-to-earn points are onboarding non-DeFi users into airdrop farming — a distribution channel to study for community growth.

Key Trends

  • Full-float TGEs vs points drops: August's lineup (FOLD, PROPR, RSGP, VBA) is a live A/B test of distribution models — fully-unlocked launches vs long points campaigns.
  • Binance Alpha as kingmaker: QUID and MMT both routed distribution through Binance programs — CEX-curated launches are crowding out pure onchain drops.
  • Points invade payments: Tria's card-spend points show the airdrop meta expanding beyond DeFi into everyday spend rails.

Ones to Watch

  • FOLD (privacy tools for shared computing): a privacy-aligned TGE this month — thematically closest to KWIZERANA's pillars; check eligibility windows now.
  • PROPR (Aug 24): the month's most-watched full-unlock launch — day-one price action will set sentiment for the rest of the TGE cohort.

5 · Stablecoins & RWA

Stablecoin flows and depegs, RWA tokenization, regulation, yield-bearing stables, institutional adoption.

RWA Onchain
$36.8B
▲ new all-time high Aug 2 · ~8x since 2024's $4.66B
RWA Holders
1.35M+
▲ holder count keeps compounding through the bear
Stablecoin Mcap
$297.6B
▲ 278M+ holders · primary settlement rail for RWA
Asset Managers Onchain
106+
▲ incl. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton · DTCC in production
Last 24–48 Hours
RWA market prints a fresh ATH at $36.8B as institutional tokenization accelerates
FXDailyReport · Aug 2 data · source
Tokenized RWAs hit a record $36.8B with 1.35M+ holders, supported by stablecoin settlement infrastructure at $297.6B.
RWA is the one crypto vertical making new highs while DeFi TVL sits 35% off its January level — capital is choosing yield with legal wrappers.
BlackRock launches BSTBL and BRSRV tokenized funds
Stobox Weekly Digest · Aug 3 · source
BSTBL targets Treasury liquidity; BRSRV is built for stablecoin reserve demand created by GENIUS Act reserve rules.
BlackRock is now productizing the regulatory plumbing itself — selling reserves-as-a-service to every stablecoin issuer the law just created.
Weekly RWA digest: tokenization deal flow keeps compounding
Stobox · week of Jul 29–Aug 4 · source
The weekly roundup tracks new issuances, platform launches and institutional pilots across treasuries, credit and commodities.
Deal-flow cadence — not price — is the leading indicator for the RWA vertical; it hasn't slowed all year.
This Week
DTCC runs live production tokenized trades with nearly 40 firms
Blockchain Council · Jul 15 event, reported this cycle · source
Live trades covered collateral, repo and equity while preserving legal rights — production, not pilot.
When the US market's core clearinghouse settles tokenized collateral in production, tokenization stops being a crypto story and becomes market structure.
Institutional tokenization momentum builds at London summit
CCN · this week · source
Institutions framed tokenization as an efficiency upgrade to existing markets, with 106+ asset managers now holding onchain RWAs.
The narrative shifted from "should we?" to "how fast?" — adoption risk is now about rails and law, not conviction.
Stablecoins cement role as RWA settlement infrastructure at $297.6B
CryptoRank Research · this week · source
With 278M+ holders, stablecoins enable seamless settlement, cross-border transfer and liquidity for the $36B+ RWA complex.
Every RWA dollar ultimately settles in stables — stablecoin float growth is the cleanest proxy for the whole tokenization trade.

Key Trends

  • GENIUS Act as demand engine: reserve rules are creating structural demand for tokenized Treasury products — BlackRock's BRSRV is the first fund built explicitly for it.
  • Production, not pilots: DTCC live trades with ~40 firms mark the year tokenization crossed from experiment to market infrastructure.
  • RWA decouples from DeFi: RWA at ATHs while DeFi TVL is 35% off highs — institutional capital wants tokenized yield with legal recourse, not composability.

Ones to Watch

  • BRSRV uptake: if stablecoin issuers adopt BlackRock's reserve fund at scale, it becomes the de facto reserve standard under GENIUS — enormous gatekeeping power.
  • Avalanche RWA share: with Aave v4 institutional lending now on AVAX, watch whether tokenized-asset issuers follow — a potential tailwind for the C-Chain ecosystem.

6 · Crypto & US Stocks

BTC/ETH price action, macro triggers, SEC/CFTC, ETF flows, corporate treasuries, Fed policy.

BTC ETF Cumulative
$52.18B
▲ net inflow · 6 straight inflow days · zero outflow days in Aug
Fed Funds Rate
3.5–3.75%
◆ held steady · Sept hike odds fell on jobs miss
Total Crypto Mcap
$2.21T
▲ steady · $33.3B daily volume
Whale Accumulation
$1.2B
▲ BTC bought by whales this week alongside $754M ETF inflows
Last 24–48 Hours
BTC tests $65K as jobs miss cuts September rate-hike odds; MSTR tops $100
CoinGape / CryptoAdWorld · Aug 8 · source · source 2
Weak July nonfarm payrolls lowered hike odds and lifted BTC to ~$65,200 with ETH targeting $2,000; PI led altcoins +4.6%.
The market is back in a "bad macro news = good crypto news" regime — rate expectations are again the dominant BTC driver.
Bitcoin ETFs extend inflow streak: $98.85M Aug 7, ~$850M since Aug 3
KuCoin / Yellow · Aug 7-8 · source · source 2
Six consecutive inflow days with BlackRock (+$111M Aug 3), Fidelity (+$33M) and Franklin (+$9M) all adding; ETH products also gained.
Persistent ETF demand under a $65K tape is quiet accumulation — institutions are buying weakness, not chasing strength.
Sunday tape: SOL $75.94 (+1.8%), XRP $1.03, ETH ~$1,915
CaptainAltcoin · Aug 9 · source
Majors drift higher into the weekend with total mcap steady at $2.21T and volume light at $33.3B.
Low-volume weekend grind after a macro catalyst usually resolves in the direction of the flow data — which is currently all inflows.
This Week
Fed holds at 3.5–3.75%; Jackson Hole (Aug 27-29) is the next macro event
Bitcoin Foundation / Capital.com · this week · source · source 2
Rates held steady; the 2026 Jackson Hole theme is "Financial Innovation and Its Implications for Payments and Policy."
A Fed symposium literally themed on payments innovation is a potential regulatory-narrative catalyst for stablecoins and tokenization.
Trump Media unwinds crypto ambitions: CRO treasury and prediction markets dropped
CoinStats · this week · source
TMTG scrapped its Crypto.com CRO treasury venture with Yorkville and abandoned plans to embed prediction markets in Truth Social.
The corporate digital-asset-treasury trend is retrenching — a sentiment headwind for the DAT names (MSTR excepted, for now).
ETH funds snap back: $53.1M inflows Aug 5 as ETH holds above $1,850
FinanceFeeds / EdgeX · Aug 5-8 · source · source 2
US spot ETH funds returned to inflows while BTC funds attracted $244M on Aug 5; Strategy trimmed holdings as retail presales stayed hot.
ETH flow recovery alongside the Stani/issuance-cut governance fight makes ETH the highest-beta macro trade of August.

Key Trends

  • Rate-cut trade is back on: the July jobs miss (23K jobs lost vs +80K expected) flipped the macro regime — every weak print now lifts BTC.
  • Institutions accumulate the chop: $1.2B of whale buying + zero ETF outflow days in August while price sits 40%+ below cycle highs.
  • Corporate treasury retrench: TMTG's exit caps a string of DAT unwinds — the marginal corporate BTC/token buyer is disappearing even as ETF demand holds.

Ones to Watch

  • Jackson Hole, Aug 27-29: a payments-and-policy themed symposium is the most crypto-relevant Fed event of the year — position sizing should respect it.
  • ETH $2,000: the level the whole market is watching — a clean break with ETF inflow support likely drags the altcoin complex (AVAX included) with it.

7 · VC & Capital Deals

Funding rounds, lead investors, valuations, acquisitions, accelerators, exits.

H1 2026 VC Inflows
$13.3B
▲ across just 435 deals — 22% of 2022's deal count
Rain Valuation
$1.9B
▲ Visa-linked stablecoin issuer · $250M raise
Series A vs Seed (H1)
$745M
◆ Series A now exceeds all seed capital ($423M) — bar raised
BitGo IPO
$200M+
▲ NYSE listing — custody goes public-market
Recent Deals
Rain raises $250M at a $1.9B valuation for Visa-linked stablecoin issuance
crypto.news · recent · source
One of the year's largest rounds; BlackOpal also bagged $200M in the same funding wave.
Stablecoin infrastructure commands the cycle's premium valuations — the GENIUS Act turned issuance into a licensed, fundable business.
Cointelegraph VC roundup: IPOs, venture rounds and onchain credit dominate
Cointelegraph · this week · source
The latest roundup highlights institutional funding flows concentrating in onchain credit, custody and market infrastructure over consumer apps.
Where VCs deploy now maps the products that ship in 2027-28 — and it's credit rails, not consumer DeFi.
Cross-sector roundup: a16z, JPMorgan, Sequoia, SoftBank and YC all active
TechStartups · Aug 4 · source
The week's broader venture tape stayed busy across AI and fintech, with crypto-adjacent infrastructure deals riding the AI capital wave.
Crypto now competes with AI for the same LP dollars — projects that bridge both (compute, agents, payments) raise fastest.
Structural Shifts (H1 Report)
CoinGecko: "The Age of Control" — VCs concentrate into lead positions
CoinGecko Research · H1 2026 · source
$13.3B deployed across only 435 deals; crypto-native and large firms are leading rounds and engaging deeply rather than spraying checks.
Fewer, bigger, more controlling checks mean governance terms are tightening — DAOs raising from VCs face harder negotiations.
Series A capital ($745M) now exceeds all seed funding ($423M)
CoinGecko Research · H1 2026 · source
For the first time, Series A is the largest round category — the seed spigot has tightened dramatically from the 2021-22 era.
The bar for first checks is at a cycle high — new projects need revenue or shipped product, not just a deck.
BitGo's $200M+ NYSE IPO headlines crypto's public-market pipeline
CoinGecko Research · 2026 · source
The custodian's January listing opened the IPO window that infrastructure names are now lining up behind.
Public-market exits reprice the whole private stack upward — expect more custody/infra IPO filings into 2027.

Key Trends

  • The Age of Control: VCs are leading fewer, larger rounds with deeper involvement — $13.3B across 435 deals vs 1,978 deals in 2022.
  • Stablecoin infra premium: Rain at $1.9B and BlackOpal's $200M show regulated stablecoin rails as the hottest valuation category post-GENIUS.
  • Exit window open: BitGo's IPO plus active M&A gives LPs realized returns for the first time in years — fuel for the next fund cycle.

Ones to Watch

  • Rain: Visa-linked, freshly capitalized at $1.9B — the name to beat in regulated stablecoin issuance.
  • Onchain credit startups: the roundups' recurring theme — whoever wins institutional term lending becomes the Aave of the RWA era (Morpho's Midnight is the front-runner).