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Aave, a decentralized lending protocol, is considering deploying a minimum viable version (MVP) of Aave version 3 on Polygon’s upcoming zkEVM Layer 2 network.

The proposal from Aave’s integrations lead Marc Zeller is aimed at establishing a strategic Aave presence on the new network early on, after the mainnet beta goes live on March 27. It’s currently in the “temperature-check” phase.

To reduce risk, the proposal suggests limiting the onboarding of assets and setting conservative risk parameters. It recommends onboarding only three collateral types: wrapped ETH (WETH) and wrapped MATIC (WMATIC) tokens, as well as USDC stablecoin. It also recommends including only one borrowable asset, the USDC stablecoin.

The proposal says it also aims to lay the groundwork for possibly issuing Aave’s GHO stablecoin on the zkEVM, if the governance were to consider this option in the future.

Polygon’s zkEVM will be a zero-knowledge or ZK-rollup that performs off-chain computations on a secondary layer for faster and cheaper transactions while prioritizing security. The aim is to further expand the Ethereum network’s scaling capabilities.

Polygon says its zkEVM will be equivalent to Ethereum’s Virtual Machine, which means that the network is expected to support the same code as Ethereum. This will allow developers to onboard apps from Ethereum and use them on the zkEVM network without making significant changes.

Aave has a track record of working closely with core teams to implement its lending protocol, particularly in 2021 on the Polygon and Avalanche blockchains. Aave’s expansion onto the Polygon sidechain network (distinct from zkEVM) in 2021 was a significant driver of increased activity on the network.

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