Aave V4 myths “Aave V4 doesn't isolated markets.” No. Aave V4 hubs and spokes are isolated by default based on their risk profiles. Risk-adjusted markets can share liquidity through hubs, up to defined caps, supporting new use cases without unnecessarily fragmenting liquidity. Full liquidity isolation is often counterproductive: it fragments capital, reduces utilization, and increases costs for users. These trade-offs become even more visible when incentives used to bootstrap isolated liquidity eventually run out. “Hub-and-spoke fragments liquidity.” It’s the opposite. In V4, spokes represent lending markets, while hubs can share liquidity across those markets. This allows isolated risk profiles to access pooled liquidity, improving utilization and capital efficiency. “It’s just isolated markets. Aave is catching up with curated vaults.” A curated vault typically launches with zero liquidity and requires capital or incentives to bootstrap. A V4 spoke can launch with the entire hub balance sheet behind it from day one. That’s the difference between an isolated market and an isolated risk profile with access to pooled liquidity. “V4 is complex.” The architecture is simpler while remaining flexible enough to support a wide range of use cases. The overall codebase is also significantly smaller than Aave V3. “V4 is still a new deployment. It’s too early to use.” V4 is already securing $1.2B in deposits and is deployed across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Avalanche, and Arc. V4 is already scaling. “V4 is less open to curators.” V4 already supports third-party curators such as EtherFi, with more to come. The key difference is that curators can build and manage an entire market structure, rather than simply manage deposits inside a vault. This gives them the opportunity to participate in the economics of the broader lending market instead of being limited to fees on deposit AUM. Over time, curators and integrators should be able to own more of their market structure and retain more of the economics they create.