Aave adds tokenized stocks as collateral on Base

Aave V4 on Base launched an Equities Hub that accepts seven Coinbase-issued tokenized US stocks as collateral for USDC loans. The initial set tracks Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla.

The market is available to eligible non-US users in permitted jurisdictions. The stock tokens are collateral-only at launch, and Chainlink provides onchain pricing data for the lending market.

The product connects a regulated-equity representation to an onchain credit market, but the tokenized shares remain subject to their own eligibility and transfer conditions. Using them in Aave does not remove those restrictions; it adds a lending use case on top of the existing token structure.