When billions vanish in hours: Inside the Aave bank run.

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]The Solidity Auditor 0x quit posted moments later that wETH on Aave was, in his words, finished and that anyone still inside should withdraw if they could, but it was likely already too late. And what followed was a textbook bank run. Between 5.4 and 6.6 billion dollars in ETH was pulled from Aave in a matter of hours, pushing pool utilization to 100% and temporarily freezing legitimate withdrawals for users who had nothing whatsoever to do with Aave.