SEC Drops Aave Probe Like a Hot Potato 🥔 | DeFi Wins (Again)!

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In a turn of events that surprised precisely no one who’s been paying attention-or even those who haven’t-the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has wrapped up its investigation into Aave, that curious little DeFi contraption, with all the grace of a walrus attempting ballet. Stani Kulechov, Aave’s top banana and chief cheerleader, took to social media to trumpet this news, presumably while sipping a well-earned cocktail.

“The SEC has concluded its investigation,” Kulechov announced, in what must have been the understatement of the century, given that the investigation had dragged on longer than a British winter. He added, with the optimism of a man who’s just found a fiver in an old pair of trousers, “DeFi will win.” One can almost hear the champagne corks popping in the background.

The Long Arm of the Law Gets a Bit Tired

Under the previous SEC regime, led by the ever-enthusiastic Gary Gensler, crypto firms were pursued with the vigor of a terrier chasing a particularly juicy sausage. Nineteen enforcement actions in nine months! One imagines Gensler waking up each morning, rubbing his hands together, and muttering, “Right, which blockchain upstart shall we ruin today?”

But lo! The winds of change blew in with the return of a certain orange-hued former president, and suddenly the SEC’s appetite for crypto carnage dwindled faster than a New Year’s resolution. Enforcement actions dropped by over 60%, as if someone had whispered, “Perhaps we could, you know, not?”

A New Dawn (Or Just a Snooze Button?)

Paul S. Atkins, the new SEC chair-a man whose name sounds like he should be selling insurance-declared this shift a “new day” for crypto. One assumes he means “new day” in the sense of “fewer lawsuits before lunchtime.”

Meanwhile, AAVE, the protocol’s token, responded to this earth-shattering news with all the enthusiasm of a sloth on sedatives, rising a whopping 1%. It remains, alas, a shadow of its former self, down a tragic 72% from its glory days in 2021. One might say it’s been through the regulatory wringer-and come out looking like a dishcloth.

A graph that probably tells a sad story

And so, dear reader, we close this chapter with a sigh, a shrug, and the faint hope that DeFi might yet escape the clutches of bureaucracy-or at least outrun it for a little while longer. 🏃‍♂️💨

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2025-12-17 09:06