"Aave is an open source and non-custodial liquidity protocol for earning interest on deposits and borrowing assets."
The charts below shows the total value locked in Aave ecosystem.
On the 26th of April Aave launched a liquidity incentive program to reward lending and borrowing with the staked Aave token. As you can see from the charts above the TVL jumps at this date as users take advantage of the new incentive rewards.