Aave led the market with a 15.89% surge to $81.49 on $689.6M volume, driven by Standard Chartered's bullish initiation. The bank predicted Aave could reach $3,500 by end-2030 and framed the token as a DeFi recovery play tied to post-KelpDAO momentum and resumed buybacks. The move stood out sharply against a weak broad market. Bitcoin fell 1.54% to $61,719, and Ethereum slipped 1.27% to $1,653.96. That divergence signals traders rotating into higher-beta DeFi exposure even as macro pressure kept major assets under pressure.