Research corpus Credit and stable valueBLC-STUDY-0043

Aave Protocol white paper

Aave's v1 protocol paper: pooled lending with stable and variable rates, and loan features such as rate switching and uncollateralised flash loans inside a single transaction. It sits in the same family as Compound, with a different rate and product surface.

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Authors: Aave
Date: 2020
Publisher: Aave
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0043
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — Aave protocol white paper v1
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Author–date

Aave (2020). Aave Protocol white paper. Aave. https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol/blob/master/docs/Aave_Protocol_Whitepaper_v1_0.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{aave2020,
  title = {Aave Protocol white paper},
  author = {Aave},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Aave},
  url = {https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol/blob/master/docs/Aave_Protocol_Whitepaper_v1_0.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/aave}
}

RIS

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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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