The chart showing the “Top 5 stocks locked on DeFi platforms” clearly highlights the dominant position of AAVE crypto in the decentralized finance sector.
AAVE has maintained a significantly higher TVL (Total Value Locked) than its competitors, consistently hovering around $20 billion over the past month.
This significant gap highlights AAVE’s strong market presence and investor confidence.
In contrast, Uniswap V3, Verus Market, JustLend, and Spark demonstrated much smaller TVLs, ranging from $5 billion to less than $500 million.
The relative flatness of their lines from early December to early January suggests stability but also indicates a lack of substantial growth relative to the AAVE crypto.
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AAVE’s dominance not only showed its essential role in the DeFi ecosystem, but also suggested greater trust and perceived usefulness among users.
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Its lead in TVL could imply stronger resilience and innovation in offering efficient financial solutions on the blockchain.
This dominance makes AAVE a potential safer haven during market fluctuations, especially in the broader context of crypto market volatility.
Profitability of active addresses
The profitability distribution of active AAVE addresses, with a detailed breakdown, showed the price ranges in which the addresses were “In the Money”, “At the Money” and “Out of the Money”.
This analysis identified support and resistance levels for AAVE. AAVE’s current price at $283.23 has served as crucial medium-term support, but with 62.71% of “At the Money” addresses around this price, there is a vulnerability.
The highlighting of 18.29% “In the Money” and 19% “Out of the Money” addresses, suggesting a relatively balanced distribution.
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However, with a significant portion of addresses near break-even, any decline below $282 could move a larger segment into the “Out of the Money” category.
If AAVE price falls to the next significant level around $210, as the distribution suggests, we could see increased selling pressure due to the change in breakeven status.
This dynamic could potentially lead to further price declines if the $282 support level does not hold, indicating the importance of this level in AAVE’s price stability.
Future AAVE Price Action
Additionally, AAVE/USDT significantly tested the points highlighted by the current price of $276.50, just above a pivotal support level. Previously, AAVE saw a strong rally, with prices reaching $420.
After this high, AAVE price entered a correction phase, descending towards the indicated support level around $276.50.
The MACD was trading below the signal line, indicating bearish momentum, while the RSI was near the 51.45 mark, suggesting neutral to slightly bearish sentiment in the market.
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The “fair value gap” between $210 and $160 suggests potentially lower support levels, which could be tested if current support fails to hold.
Price action has formed what appears to be a descending channel, with the recent downtrend testing support at $276.50.
If this level fails, the analysis suggests a possible decline to $210, as indicated by gap analysis.
Conversely, a rebound from this support could see prices attempt to regain higher levels, potentially retesting previous highs.
AAVE’s near-term price trajectory amid market corrections could be determined by paying close attention to how it holds above $276.50 or adjusts to find new lows .