Aave Clarifies V3 Won’t be Abandoned as V4 Approaches Mainnet
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When questions began swirling across social channels about whether Aave’s latest upgrade would force users and integrations off the current stack, Kolten, Aave Labs’ Marketing Director for DeFi, sought to put doubts to rest. In a measured thread on X, he laid out the company’s position that Aave V3 will continue to operate “for the foreseeable future,” even after V4 lands, and there is “no rush” to deprecate the existing version. The post reads like a careful reassurance to the protocol’s large ecosystem of builders, integrators and institutional partners, some of whom have voiced concern that a hard pivot to V4 could disrupt operations built on top of V3. Kolten emphasized that the timeline in the so-called “Aave Will Win” framework is intentionally flexible, not a firm deadline, and that Aave Labs will weigh “a lot of factors.” It is the same kind of prudence expected when introducing any major DeFi protocol change. That message echoes discussions already unfolding in governance threads, where members have debated how and when V4 should be adopted without harming current markets. Aave Labs framed V4 as the culmination of nearly a decade of iterative protocol work rather than a sudden reinvention. Kolten pointed to the team’s experience across V1 through V3, including features such as eMode, the launch of GHO, and the Safety Module, as the technical and operational foundations that informed V4’s design. He also stressed that the new version isn’t a vacuum project: months of business-development conversations with partners, fintechs, institutions, infrastructure providers and developers shaped the upgrade’s parameters. Those conversations and the testnet code releases have already been visible to the public and developer community. That context underpins why Aave Labs says it has continued to market and support V3, rather than slowing it in expectation of V4. The company noted…
Filed under: News - @ February 22, 2026 9:05 am