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DeFi IS LEARNING AN IMPORTANT LESSON: LIQUIDATION ISN'T THE REAL RISK CONCENTRATION IS The recent stress around Aave is a good reminder that DeFi doesn't need a market crash to experience serious liquidation pressure. ETH only moved within a relatively narrow range, yet liquidation activity accelerated sharply as leveraged positions built around long-tail collateral began reaching their thresholds. That's the part many traders underestimate. The danger isn't simply leverage. It's leverage becoming concentrated in the same direction, against assets with limited liquidity. Once prices begin moving against those positions, liquidations can trigger a chain reaction: Collateral gets sold. Liquidation bots compete for execution. Discounted collateral increases selling pressure. Prices weaken further. More positions approach liquidation. And the cycle repeats. This creates a feedback loop where a relatively small market move can produce a disproportionately large amount of forced selling. Aave's response, including adjustments to collateral parameters and tighter risk treatment for less-liquid assets, highlights an important evolution in DeFi risk management. The goal shouldn't be to eliminate liquidation. Liquidation is part of how overcollateralized lending works. The bigger objective is preventing too much risk from accumulating in places where market depth cannot absorb it. This is why metrics such as collateral liquidity, utilization, liquidation thresholds, oracle sensitivity and position concentration deserve just as much attention as APY. A protocol can have strong smart contracts and still face significant market-structure risk. That's the bigger takeaway. Smart-contract security protects the protocol from one class of failure. Risk management protects it from another. As DeFi grows, dynamic risk parameters, position limits and better monitoring of collateral concentration will become increasingly important. The direction of DeFi adoption may remain intact. But the pace of growth needs better risk controls.