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$GRVT Aave is now supported in Circle Mint’s Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing product, marking a significant step for decentralized finance. Eligible Circle Mint LLC customers can use cirBTC as collateral to borrow USDC directly from Aave on either Arc or Ethereum. This integration could drive more users towards DeFi platforms, reflecting a growing trend in digital asset utilization. For more details, visit the official announcement. What Went Down The integration of Aave’s services into Circle Mint’s platform allows customers to leverage cirBTC as collateral for borrowing USDC, which is a noteworthy development in the DeFi space. The broader cryptocurrency market currently shows mixed signals, but this move by Circle Mint could stimulate increased interest in digital asset-backed loans. By facilitating access to liquidity, Aave’s integration may encourage more users to engage with decentralized finance solutions and explore the potential benefits of borrowing against their digital assets. Aave is a decentralized lending protocol that allows users to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies. Circle Mint is a financial services platform focusing on digital asset-backed borrowing. This integration is critical as it highlights the growing intersection between traditional finance and decentralized finance, demonstrating how established platforms are adopting innovative technologies to enhance user offerings. Where Do We Go From Here Traders and users should watch for potential increases in borrowing activity on Aave as more customers explore using cirBTC as collateral. With the integration now live, it will be important to monitor how this affects overall liquidity within the Aave ecosystem and whether it leads to increased demand for USDC. Additionally, any shifts in community sentiment regarding digital asset utilization could influence future engagement levels with both Aave and Circle Mint. The post Circle Mint Adds Aave Support for Digital Asset-Backed Loans appeared first on Coinfomania.

$GRVT Prediction market platform Polymarket is rebuilding its smart contract infrastructure, laying the groundwork for new market features and potential expansion beyond Polygon. Polymarket began rolling out Protocol V2 on Monday, introducing a new smart contract system designed to support different market types through a single exchange, ​​according to an X post by Rajath Alex, the company’s head of protocol. The platform is testing the system on a limited number of live markets through Oct. 30, with a tentative Nov. 2 target for switching new markets to V2. The overhaul replaces infrastructure based on code developed in 2019 that requires additional contracts to support new market types. New protocol uses pUSD as sole collateral token Protocol V2 uses Polymarket USD (pUSD) as its sole collateral token, alongside a single contract for position tokens and one exchange supporting different market types. Introduced as part of an exchange upgrade in April 2026, pUSD is a collateral token backed 1:1 by Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDC. The new protocol is designed to support transferring positions, collateral and market outcome data between blockchains, although Polymarket has not announced when cross-chain functionality will launch or which networks it will support. Related: Vitalik Buterin says Hegotá could be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork Polymarket currently operates its prediction markets on Polygon, an Ethereum scaling network, where pUSD is also issued. Cointelegraph reached out to Polymarket for details on which blockchains it plans to support and when the expansion could take place. Upgradeable contracts support new features and oracles Protocol V2 introduces upgradeable smart contracts, allowing Polymarket to modify contracts through a ”secure governance process,“ reducing the need to deploy additional contracts for new features. It also introduces OracleAggregator, a system designed to connect to different oracles, including UMA and Chainlink, to determine market outcomes. Related: Polygon discloses security flaws fixed in recent hard forks Polymarket said the new system underwent audits by blockchain security platforms such as Cantina, Quantstamp and Zellic, as well as formal verification by Certora. The company is offering bug bounty rewards of up to $5 million for critical vulnerabilities. According to the Protocol V2 migration guide, existing positions will not be converted to V2, and app and website users will not need to take technical steps to migrate, although they may be asked to approve new contracts when trading. Magazine: Former SEC boss made AI Czar, Bitcoin may hit $600K this cycle: Hodler’s Digest

$GRVT LIBRA-linked wallets tied to Kelsier Ventures have fallen from nearly $300 million in tracked holdings in February 2025 to about $2 million, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham. Arkham said on Oct. 5 that it had identified more than 1,000 addresses belonging to Kelsier Ventures and Hayden Davis when it first published the wallet cluster in February 2025. At the time, the addresses held close to $300 million, with most of the value coming from LIBRA tokens. Arkham now puts the remaining value across the tracked cluster at approximately $2 million. applied to two addresses while investors pursued claims against Kelsier and related defendants. The New York federal court later lifted its asset restraints in 2025. The Sept. 29, 2026 dismissal subsequently closed the underlying U.S. class action. The current $2 million Arkham figure should not be read as a direct comparison with only the assets once frozen by the court. Arkham’s entity cluster covers a much larger set of addresses identified as connected to Kelsier Ventures and LIBRA. Its February 2025 estimate included LIBRA tokens, stablecoins, $SOL and other assets spread across more than 1,000 addresses. Arkham’s Oct. 5 post does not say that $298 million was transferred out of the wallets in cash terms, nor does it identify the balance change as realized profit, investor recovery or seized funds. Argentina’s LIBRA investigation remains separate The end of the U.S. civil lawsuit has not closed the separate criminal investigation in Argentina. Argentina’s federal prosecutor’s office said in March that federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano remained in charge of the investigation and was continuing work on evidence connected to LIBRA. Prosecutors have been examining the circumstances surrounding the token’s creation and launch, including possible fraud, influence trafficking, bribery and abuse of authority. Digital assets have already been frozen as part of that inquiry. In August 2025, prosecutors announced that an Argentine federal judge ordered the freezing of 323,275 USDT held across two addresses identified during the investigation. Prosecutors said those addresses had received funds from a multisignature wallet examined in the case. Investigators linked activity in that wallet to the period between December 2024 and February 2025. A separate prosecution request had sought to freeze nearly 44.6 million $USDC connected to the inquiry before the U.S. court froze related stablecoin addresses in May 2025. The Argentine prosecutor’s office said its technical investigation included analysis of electronic devices seized during the case. A final forensic report was delivered to prosecutors in January 2026 and added to the judicial case-management system in February. The Sept. 29 U.S. ruling does not resolve those Argentine proceedings. Arkham continues tracking the remaining Kelsier wallets Arkham’s public entity page continues to group wallets it attributes to Kelsier Ventures, allowing changes in token holdings and transfers to be monitored on-chain. The analytics company has not said in its latest update that the approximately $2 million still visible represents all assets controlled by Davis or Kelsier Ventures outside the addresses it has identified. Its February 2025 research was similarly limited to wallets Arkham had attributed to the entity. Earlier reporting around LIBRA showed why attribution can change as investigators connect additional addresses. Blockchain researchers including Arkham, Nansen and other analytics firms spent months tracing wallets tied to the launch, liquidity pools and subsequent token movements. Nansen tracked large profits and losses among LIBRA traders after the token’s rapid collapse, while separate investigations focused on early wallets and liquidity providers. Arkham’s latest update leaves the identified Kelsier cluster at roughly $2 million compared with nearly $300 million when the firm first disclosed the addresses in February 2025.

$GRVT $GRVT Aave’s Ethereum Core market lists a 4.5% borrowing rate for $GHO, aligning the stablecoin’s borrowing cost with the savings rate TokenLogic reported on Oct. 2. The next test is whether the change brings $USDC or $USDT into the reserves available to savers who choose to convert withdrawn $GHO into $USDC or $USDT. Aave describes its savings token (sGHO) as redeemable instantly into $GHO, so a holder who wants $USDC needs a separate conversion. A higher borrowing rate can change the incentive to repay, but the route used to acquire that repayment $GHO determines whether stablecoins enter the reserves. The DAO service provider reported a depleted $USDC $GHO Stability Module (GSM) on Oct. 2, and said the rate increase should help replenish reserves if borrowers obtain repayment $GHO through the modules. The effect on reserves depends on borrowers bringing stablecoins into those modules, and the new rate alone does not demonstrate improved $USDC conversion liquidity. Aavescan’s Core $GHO data dated Oct. 5 displays a 4.5% borrow $APR. Its daily snapshots show 4.25% at midnight UTC on Oct. 3 and 4.5% at midnight on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5, locating the change between daily readings. TokenLogic’s Oct. 2 notice proposed moving Core from 4.25% to 4.5%. It said borrowers could previously pay 4.25% to acquire $GHO on Core and earn 4.5% in sGHO, leaving the DAO to fund the 25-basis-point difference. At an unchanged savings rate, the new Core rate eliminates that stated gap. That alignment is specific to Core and the 4.5% savings rate reported on Oct. 2. TokenLogic proposed a 3% base rate, up from 2.75%, and a 4.25% $APR at optimal utilization, up from 4%. Aavescan’s Prime page displayed 4.17% on Oct. 5 at 86.35% utilization, versus 4.22% in its midnight snapshot. Repayment replenishes reserves only through the right route TokenLogic describes two ways a borrower needing $GHO can acquire it: buy on the secondary market, or exchange $USDC or $USDT through a GSM. Buying $GHO can support its market price, while bringing stablecoins into a GSM adds the inventory that another $GHO holder can later redeem against. That makes a fall in outstanding debt an incomplete measure of conversion liquidity, since repayment can occur without $USDC reaching a module. Improved conversion liquidity requires stablecoins entering the reserve, beyond any change in $GHO debt. Core’s midnight snapshots recorded 116 million $GHO borrowed on Oct. 2 and 115.8 million on Oct. 5. Aave’s native sGHO documentation says users deposit $GHO, receive vault shares, and redeem those shares for $GHO without a cooldown. It also says deposited funds are not rehypothecated. Aave also documents a pause state and user-specific withdrawal limits. Those conditions affect live vault availability, separately from the inventory and liquidity needed to exchange the resulting $GHO. $GHO exits require market conversion, while repayment routes depend on reserve inventory and pool liquidity. The RemoteGSM architecture, described by TokenLogic in March, makes the inventory distinction explicit. Governance-approved facilitators supply preminted $GHO to a GhoReserve, and GSMs draw and restore it under assigned limits. Room to distribute $GHO is separate from the stablecoin inventory available for redemption. A higher limit can permit incoming swaps, but users still have to deliver the $USDC or $USDT. Aave Labs’ institutional proposal reported 19.2 million $USDT on Ethereum and 40.7 million on Plasma as of Sept. 24, totaling 59.9 million $USDT. It excluded $USDC instances because their redeemable balances were negligible. TokenLogic’s Oct. 2 update reported approximately 22.5 million $USDT in a $USDT GSM without labeling the network scope. Comparing that figure with the earlier Ethereum-plus-Plasma total would not establish an aggregate decline. Neither statement supplies matched Oct. 5 balances. Plasma provides a potential route to $USDT inventory beyond Ethereum through Chainlink CCIP. Its usefulness depends on the time needed to bridge $GHO and turn the module’s assets into usable stablecoins. Kairos Research’s September analysis, using Sept. 8 readings, reported 40.6 million in nominal Plasma GSM redemption inventory against 38.6 million in underlying lending-pool cash. Kairos also estimated at least 9.7 hours of rate-limit time to move 40 million $GHO to Plasma under the bridge settings it measured. That assumed a full initial bucket and no competing traffic, and excluded message delivery and subsequent conversion steps. Fees require the same care. TokenLogic’s September parameter notice proposed 15-basis-point $USDC redemption fees on Ethereum, Monad and Arbitrum, a 10-basis-point Ethereum $USDT fee and zero mint fees. Its implementation language does not establish current executed fees. A usable exit depends on the current quote, inventory, and underlying liquidity together.