According to foreign media, the Slag Chartered Bank has set the long-term target price for AAVE at $3,500 at the end of 2030, based on the rebound in DeFi's borrowing demand and the increased use of real-world monetized assets in the chain. This target, as described in the paper, is significantly higher than AAVE's currently approximately $70 to $76.

Phased targets are given.

The phased projections given by Geoff Kendrick, the Chief of Scum Digital Assets Research, show that AAVE reached $180 at the end of 2026, $600 at the end of 2027, $1,200 at the end of 2028, $2200 at the end of 2029 and $3,500 at the end of 2030.

According to the article, the scum treats Aave as a chain lending platform that operates through smart contracts and whose business performance is directly related to the size of deposits, loan activity, fees and agreed revenues.

After April, there was a deposit. Slide

It was reported that Aave's savings at the height of October 2025 were about $75 billion. The slag argued that this amount, if placed in the United States banking system, could go to the top 30 by the size of the deposit.

However, in April, after KelpDAO-related events, Aave's deposits and active loans fell back. The incident involved approximately $292 million rsETH being transferred through the Layer Zero-related cross-chain bridge and used as collateral for several DeFi platforms, including Aave. Since then, Aave has frozen the market associated with rsETH, with which the Platform ' s funds have been diverted.

Slag is now looking at that phase as a stage low, believing that the agreement has gradually emerged from the shock and that it is still expected to maintain its leading position in the chain lending market.

Horizon is considered the main growth point

According to the article, one of the key variables that underpins long-term projections is the size of the assets that will actually enter DeFi and be active in the coming years. It is expected that by the end of 2030, the size of this asset could have increased to approximately $2.7 trillion, 37 times the current level.

Among them, Aave Horizon was listed as one of the main driving factors. The platform is open to authorized institutions to borrow as collateral against monetized real assets, with the aim of connecting traditional finance to the DeFi lending market.

At this stage, however, the operational volume of Horizon remains limited. Reports indicate that, as at the end of May, Horizon ' s active lending stood at approximately $163 million, while slag estimates a broader range of real-world assets markets of about $30 billion.

Short-line prices are still near the resistance level.

In addition to a long-term judgement, the article refers to the recent price performance of AAVE. AAVE once rebounded between about US$ 58 and US$ 60 at the beginning of June, about US$ 76.49 at the time of the release, an increase of about 6.5 per cent at 24 hours.

However, according to the report, AAVE has not been completely removed at the 4-hour level from the previous vulnerable structure, which had lagged back from $100 in May, and is currently rebounding more like testing critical mean areas than confirming a reversal of the trend.

It is mentioned that 75.50 to 76 dollars is the main area of resistance, 72 to 73 dollars is the initial support and 70 dollars is stronger. Furthermore, Grayscale Research argued that AAVE ' s one-year fair value might rise to around US$ 175 in the context of an improved regulatory environment and the expansion of tokenized assets.