Case Study: Aave accelerates V4 development and multichain testing with Tenderly Virtual TestNets

Aave spins up 30-minute demo environments and 500+ tests with Tenderly

AAVE, a leading DeFi protocol, faced a challenge in creating a shared staging environment for its teams to collaboratively build and test its V4 upgrade. Using local nodes lacked a shared state, while public testnets introduced bottlenecks, missing mainnet data, and stale oracle prices that made realistic testing impossible, pulling engineers away from core development.

By implementing Tenderly Virtual TestNets, AAVE gained a shared staging environment synced with mainnet state. This solution enabled the team to build a suite of 500+ end-to-end tests, run a public developer preview, and spin up custom partner demos in under 30 minutes. Tenderly eliminated infrastructure overhead, allowing AAVE's engineers to focus entirely on product logic and multichain testing, which was previously impossible.

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