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After the Kelp incident, the USDT liquidity on both Aave Ethereum mainnet and Plasma ...

Bitget • April 19, 2026

Foresight News reports that, according to the Aave page, affected by the Kelp DAO attack incident, the Aave V3 Core Market (Ethereum mainnet) has a USDT deposit scale of $3.29 billion, with only $400,000 of available liquidity remaining and a utilization rate of 99.99%. The Plasma Market USDT0 market has reserves of $1.35 billion, available liquidity is less than $0.01, and utilization is at 100%.

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