According to @santimentfeed on X, the dispute between Aave DAO and Aave Labs erased roughly 500 million dollars from AAVE’s market cap. Santiment adds that large wallets accumulated AAVE during the drawdown, showing whale buying activity. Santiment reports that crowd sentiment toward AAVE has recently flipped bullish as both sides seek a resolution. Santiment also notes a surge in AAVE derivatives open interest, highlighting a key trading metric to monitor.

According to @lookonchain citing Arkham Intelligence explorer data, whale address 0xDDC4eAb490469f073Ab8Cd5937B1a0f585687931 returned after six months and spent 500 ETH (about $1.53M) to buy 9,629 AAVE. According to @lookonchain, the address has accumulated 39,213 AAVE over the past year for $6.2M at an average cost of $264 and currently shows an unrealized loss of $4.15M. According to @lookonchain’s figures, the latest 9,629 AAVE buy equals roughly 24.6% of the past-year accumulation and implies an estimated fill near $159 per AAVE on this tranche, providing a clear on-chain cost reference for traders.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, Arthur Hayes deposited 7.66 million BIO to Binance, valued at about $460,000, two days after his prior transfer, with the move flagged by the source as a suspected sell, source: @ai_9684xtpa on X; Arkham Intel entity: intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/arthur-hayes. Over the past week, the same labeled wallet reportedly offloaded roughly $3.409 million in altcoins across multiple channels, including LDO, UNI, AAVE, ENA, and ETHFI, source: @ai_9684xtpa on X citing Arkham Intel at intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/arthur-hayes.