DeFi big brother's price has been weak this year, but the team hasn't slacked off—V4+RWAs+auto-buyback three-piece set, Grayscale calling $3500 is not without logic.

Despite dominance of the DeFi lending sector, $AAVE's price performance is highly negative this year but might be about to change.

Team is currently working on "Aavenomics 3.0".

All we know so far is that it will include a "new automated and non-discretionary buyback mechanism", with further details to follow.

The news comes against a backdrop of Grayscale sharing a belief that $AAVE could reach $3,500 per coin.

Aavenomics 3.0 is one of the more important tokenomics updates in DeFi right now

They are trying to make $AAVE less of a passive governance token and more of the asset that sits at the center of the protocol’s economics

AAVE already has the hard part working with things like real lending activity, GHO, institutional products, and now a bigger push toward RWAs and V4.

Aavenomics 3.0 takes that a step further by moving buybacks to become more automatic and built into the system, instead of being something a committee manually decides each time.

Buybacks can strengthen the $AAVE value-accrual story, while V4 expands the market Aave can go after

Protocol already has real usage + revenue, and now the focus seems to be on making sure more of that economic activity actually connects back to $AAVE