Aave leads DeFi higher as crypto shrugs off surging bond market
Aave (AAVE)
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Eugene Serbin
1millionbacklinks.com reports that Bitcoin recovered Monday's losses to trade at $84,170, up 0.82% since midnight UTC, while the CoinDesk 100 added 0.89% to 1,904.49. DeFi led the market higher, with the DeFi Select Index up 5.0% driven by Aave's 11% rise. This movement followed Stani Kulechov's statement that a token burn may form part of the c…
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for AAVE, measured when this story was written up on 30 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Aave is currently trading at $165.28 with a 24-hour spot volume of $74,898,659 across 728,560 trades. The 1-hour buy ratio stands at 56.2%, which is higher than the 4-hour ratio of 53.9% and the 24-hour ratio of 53.1%, indicating that buying pressure is building in the short term. The volume delta measures the difference between buy and sell volume; the 1-hour delta is +$78,403 and the 4-hour delta is +$187,745, showing net buying activity. Over the last 24 hours, the cumulative volume delta (CVD) closed at +$1,067,590, with net buying occurring in 13 of the 24 hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.8% sits at the 52nd percentile of the last 324 days, against a median of 49.8% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for AAVE, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 49.4%, making today's 24-hour ratio of 53.1% an increase of 3.7 points above the average. This suggests the current day is unusual compared to the weekly norm, further evidenced by spot volume being 3.23 times the average. The coin has seen a price change of +11.6% over the last 8 days, with a total volume delta of +$1,293,680. Net buying was recorded on 4 of the 7 days in this period.