Grayscale Rolls Out Aave Fund

• “Grayscale Aave Trust gives investors exposure to a protocol with the potential to revolutionize traditional finance,” Grayscale’s head of product and research, Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, said in a statement.
• Grayscale is the issuer of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and the Grayscale Mini Bitcoin Trust (BTC) as well as the Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE), which all launched earlier this year.

Grayscale’s has started a new fund which offers exposure to Aave's AAVE token, the asset manager said on Thursday, in what has been a series of novel products from the crypto asset manager.

Aave is a decentralized lending platform based on the Ethereum blockchain that offers automated loans of cryptocurrency using other tokens you own as collateral. It also lets users lend out their crypto to earn interest.

While the platform’s native token stands at a market capitalization of $2.3 billion, a relatively small number compared to most well-known tokens, the protocol has become the largest cryptocurrency lending protocol by total value locked (TVL), according to data by DeFiLlama.

“Grayscale Aave Trust gives investors exposure to a protocol with the potential to revolutionize traditional finance,” Grayscale’s head of product and research, Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, said in a statement.

“By leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts, Aave's decentralized platform aims to optimize lending and borrowing while removing intermediaries and reducing reliance on human judgment,” she said.

The launch comes only a few weeks after Grayscale rolled out its most recent fund, the Grayscale Avalanche Trust, offering investors exposure to the AVAX AVAX$20 token. The asset manager currently offers over 20 different crypto investment products, a number that has grown after the launch of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in January, which spurred interest for publicly tradable products tracking cryptocurrencies.

Grayscale is the issuer of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), the Grayscale Mini Bitcoin Trust (BTC), Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) and Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH), which all launched earlier this year.