Aave MANA: Interest-Bearing MANA Deposit Certificate in the Aave Protocol
The Aave MANA whitepaper was written and published by the Metaverse DeFi Initiative at the end of 2025, aiming to address the growing demand for financial infrastructure in the metaverse economy and to establish a new bridge between decentralized finance (DeFi) and virtual world assets.
The theme of the Aave MANA whitepaper is “Aave MANA: A Liquidity Protocol Connecting Decentralized Finance and the Metaverse Economy.” What makes Aave MANA unique is its deep integration of Aave’s liquidity pool model with Decentraland’s MANA token and virtual asset ecosystem, introducing metaverse-native assets as collateral and providing broader DeFi application scenarios for MANA. The significance of Aave MANA lies in laying a solid financial infrastructure for the metaverse economy, significantly enhancing the liquidity and utility of virtual assets.
The original intention of Aave MANA is to solve the problems of insufficient liquidity and limited financial tools for virtual assets in the metaverse. The core viewpoint presented in the Aave MANA whitepaper is: by combining Aave’s mature decentralized lending framework with MANA-driven metaverse assets, seamless financialization of assets in the virtual world can be achieved, thereby promoting a more dynamic and autonomous digital economy.