Author: Denis Avetisyan
New infrastructure unlocks comprehensive analysis of the Aave protocol across multiple blockchains, providing a clearer view into the world of decentralized lending.
This paper details a standardized, event-driven dataset for cross-chain analysis of Aave, covering six major blockchain networks to enhance DeFi research and risk assessment.
Despite the rapid growth of decentralized finance, empirical research into lending protocols like Aave remains hampered by a lack of standardized, cross-chain data. This paper introduces a comprehensive, event-driven data infrastructure, detailed in ‘A Cross-Chain Event-Driven Data Infrastructure for Aave Protocol Analytics and Applications’, which captures over 50 million transactions across six major EVM-compatible blockchains. By meticulously decoding core Aave events-from supply and borrow actions to liquidations-we provide a fully reproducible dataset enriched with crucial block and valuation metadata. Will this resource unlock a deeper understanding of capital flows, systemic risk, and user behavior within the burgeoning DeFi landscape?
Navigating the Fragmented Landscape of Decentralized Finance
The burgeoning landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi) is no longer confined to a single blockchain; instead, it’s characterized by a rapid proliferation across numerous networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Polygon. This expansion, while fostering innovation and accessibility, introduces a significant challenge: data fragmentation. Previously, analyzing on-chain activity meant focusing primarily on Ethereum; now, a comprehensive understanding requires aggregating data from a diverse and often incompatible set of blockchains. This dispersal creates a disjointed picture of the DeFi ecosystem, hindering effective monitoring of trends, risk assessment, and the development of truly interoperable applications. The resulting complexity demands new tools and methodologies capable of unifying this scattered information into a cohesive and actionable dataset.
Comprehensive analysis of on-chain activity within decentralized finance necessitates the aggregation of data from a growing number of blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism. These platforms, while offering unique advantages in scalability and cost, operate as largely independent data silos. Consequently, a complete understanding of user behavior, liquidity flows, and overall system health requires complex integrations that can be computationally expensive and prone to inconsistencies. Researchers and developers must navigate varying data structures, API limitations, and differing block confirmation times to construct a unified view of the DeFi ecosystem, a task that presents significant technical hurdles but is crucial for accurate insights and reliable application development.
Current methods for compiling decentralized finance (DeFi) data often fall short when attempting to provide a comprehensive view of market activity. These traditional approaches struggle with the increasing complexity of a multi-chain ecosystem, requiring laborious, manual processes to consolidate information from disparate sources. This limitation hinders accurate analysis and informed decision-making within the DeFi space. In contrast, this research introduces a dataset meticulously constructed to overcome these challenges, integrating on-chain data from six prominent blockchain networks – Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Avalanche. By encompassing a broader spectrum of DeFi ecosystems, this dataset offers a more holistic and efficient resource for researchers and developers seeking to understand the full scope of decentralized finance.
An Event-Driven Architecture for Data Extraction
A dedicated event-driven data extraction pipeline was implemented to collect data specifically from the Aave V3 protocol. This pipeline operates across six primary blockchain networks – Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fantom – utilizing publicly available Blockchain RPC endpoints for connection and data retrieval. The architecture is designed to react to and capture real-time events emitted by Aave V3 smart contracts, enabling the continuous collection of on-chain activity. This targeted approach ensures data is sourced directly from the protocol, minimizing reliance on external APIs and maximizing data integrity for analysis and reporting.
The data extraction pipeline connects to each of the six targeted blockchain networks via publicly available Blockchain RPC Endpoints. These endpoints facilitate the retrieval of on-chain event data, specifically focusing on event types critical to Aave V3 protocol activity. The system systematically queries for and collects Supply, Borrow, and Repay events, representing user deposit, loan, and repayment actions respectively. Each event record includes data such as the user’s address, the amount of the transaction, and the timestamp, allowing for a detailed reconstruction of protocol usage and state changes.
The data extraction pipeline’s completeness is achieved by monitoring both transactional events – Supply, Borrow, and Repay – and state-changing events signaled by Aave V3’s ReserveDataUpdated events. These ReserveDataUpdated events capture critical changes to reserve parameters such as utilization rates, liquidation thresholds, and available liquidity, providing a holistic view of protocol state. This dual-monitoring approach, across six blockchain networks, has resulted in a dataset exceeding millions of records, facilitating granular analysis of Aave V3’s operational characteristics and risk parameters.
Dataset Characteristics and Rigorous Validation
The dataset comprises eight distinct event types central to the Aave V3 protocol’s operation. These events include, but are not limited to, user withdrawals, liquidation calls triggered by collateral deficiencies, and flash loan utilization. Other captured event types detail deposit activity, borrowing actions, rate updates, and reserve adjustments. The inclusion of these varied event types allows for a granular understanding of user activity and systemic interactions within the protocol, providing a comprehensive record of its functional components.
Automated data validation procedures were implemented to assess dataset quality, focusing on consistency and completeness. These checks included verifying data types for each field, ensuring all required fields contained values, and identifying duplicate entries. Specifically, range checks were performed on numerical data to identify outliers, and cross-validation was used to confirm relationships between related data points. Any records failing these checks were flagged for review or exclusion, ensuring the reliability of the dataset for subsequent analytical processes and mitigating potential errors in derived metrics.
The captured dataset facilitates granular analysis of user behavior within the Aave V3 protocol, encompassing transaction patterns, liquidity provision, and borrowing activities. Protocol health can be assessed through metrics derived from this data, including total value locked, utilization rates, and liquidation volumes. Furthermore, the dataset enables the identification of potential risk factors such as flash loan activity concentration, collateralization ratios, and emergent vulnerabilities. Data is available through October 1, 2025, providing a substantial historical record for ongoing monitoring and retrospective analysis of the Aave V3 ecosystem.
Fostering Collaborative Research Through Open Access
The culmination of this research is a publicly accessible dataset, now freely available on Zenodo, designed to foster collaborative investigation within the decentralized finance (DeFi) community. This open access resource removes barriers to entry for researchers, enabling detailed analysis of on-chain activity and promoting transparency in a rapidly evolving financial landscape. By providing a standardized and comprehensive collection of DeFi transactions, the dataset encourages independent verification of findings, accelerates the pace of innovation, and empowers a wider range of stakeholders to contribute to the collective understanding of this complex ecosystem. The availability of this data promises to unlock new insights into protocol performance, user strategies, and the broader systemic risks and opportunities present within DeFi.
The newly compiled dataset provides a valuable foundation for diverse investigations within decentralized finance. Researchers can now quantitatively assess protocol efficiency, examining gas costs, transaction speeds, and overall resource utilization to pinpoint areas for optimization. Beyond technical performance, the data allows for detailed analysis of user behavior, including trading patterns, liquidity provision, and risk preferences, offering insights into market dynamics. Critically, the dataset facilitates rigorous study of flash loans-transactions executed within a single block-enabling researchers to determine their impact on market manipulation, arbitrage opportunities, and overall system stability. This comprehensive resource promises to unlock a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between protocols, users, and financial instruments within the rapidly evolving DeFi ecosystem.
The current dataset represents a crucial first step, but a comprehensive understanding of decentralized finance (DeFi) necessitates a significantly broader scope. Future research endeavors will prioritize the inclusion of data from a diverse array of DeFi protocols, moving beyond the initially analyzed systems. This expansion won’t be limited to protocol variety; the project intends to incorporate data from multiple blockchain networks, acknowledging that DeFi isn’t confined to a single platform. By creating a more holistic and interconnected dataset, researchers can begin to identify systemic risks, assess the true efficiency of different DeFi architectures, and develop more robust models for predicting market behavior across the entire landscape. This broadened perspective is essential for informing both academic inquiry and practical applications within the rapidly evolving world of decentralized finance.
The pursuit of a standardized, event-driven dataset, as detailed in this work, echoes a fundamental principle of system design: clarity of structure dictates emergent behavior. The ability to comprehensively analyze the Aave protocol across multiple blockchains isn’t simply about data aggregation; it’s about revealing the underlying mechanisms that govern DeFi lending. As Ada Lovelace observed, “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.” This rings true – the infrastructure described doesn’t create insights, but unlocks them by providing a transparent, ordered view of the system’s actions, enabling more informed risk assessment and a deeper understanding of liquidity pool dynamics.
What Lies Ahead?
The construction of this cross-chain data infrastructure for Aave, while a necessary step, reveals a deeper truth: standardization is not a destination, but a perpetually receding horizon. The system, by necessity, captures a snapshot of protocol behavior; the challenge now lies in anticipating the inevitable evolution of that behavior. If the system survives on duct tape and ad-hoc integrations, it’s probably overengineered – a symptom of attempting to predict a future that remains fundamentally unpredictable.
The true limitation isn’t the data itself, but the analytical frameworks applied to it. Modularity, without a comprehensive understanding of emergent systemic risks, is an illusion of control. A granular view of liquidity pools, isolated across chains, offers little solace when cascading failures originate from unforeseen interactions. The next phase must prioritize the development of holistic, system-level simulations, capable of modeling not just intended functionality, but the unintended consequences of complex interactions.
Ultimately, the value of this work will be measured not by the volume of data collected, but by its ability to inform genuinely robust risk assessments. The field must move beyond reactive monitoring and embrace proactive modeling – a shift requiring not only technological innovation, but a fundamental rethinking of how decentralized finance protocols are designed and evaluated.
Original article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.11363.pdf
Contact the author: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avetisyan/
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