Aave App Now Supports Deposits Directly From Ethereum Mainnet

The significance is less the deposit route itself than the direction of travel: a lending protocol's consumer app is now pulling liquidity straight from mainnet rather than routing users through a wrapped or bridged environment. That matters for Aave's positioning against apps that abstract chains away entirely, and for mainnet holders who value staying put. The Ghost Pass framing suggests access is still gated, so this reads as a controlled experiment rather than a full launch. Whether supported assets and rollout timing follow, and how quickly gating lifts, is the open question.