According to @MilkRoadDaily, Aave now has $30.5B in outstanding loans, while the next largest protocol, Morpho, has $4.3B. Source: @MilkRoadDaily on X, Sep 19, 2025. The roughly $26.2B gap exceeds the entire DeFi lending market size a year ago as stated by the source. Source: @MilkRoadDaily on X, Sep 19, 2025. For traders, this concentration makes Aave the primary venue for on-chain borrow-rate discovery; monitoring utilization, borrow APYs, and liquidation metrics on Aave can inform risk and pricing decisions. Source: Aave Protocol documentation on utilization-based interest rate model.