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Aave Book
  • Introduction
  • TradFi vs DeFi: Lending
  • Market forces x Interest Rate Models
  • On Indexes
    • Why use indexes?
  • Scaling and ATokens
  • Deposit & Borrow Interest
  • Stable borrowing
    • 🚧Under construction
  • Liquidation
    • 🚧TODO: Full example
    • 🚧Under construction: oracles
  • Primer
    • Bitmap & Masks
      • 🚧padding and bytes
    • WadRayLibrary
      • Math Operations
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    • General Execution flow
    • Architecture & Design choices
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    • Common Functions
      • getReserveFactor, getDecimals
      • .cache
      • .updateState
      • .updateInterestRates
      • SupplyCap, BorrowCap
      • getFlags
        • 🚧more on flags
      • calculateUserAccountData
    • supply
      • validateSupply
      • transfer & mint
      • isFirstSupply
        • isUsingAsCollateralOne, isUsingAsCollateralAny
      • On check-effects-interactions pattern
    • withdraw
      • get user balance & withdraw amount
      • validateWithdraw
      • collateral check
      • burn ATokens
      • Ensure existing loans are collateralized
    • borrow
      • getIsolationModeState
      • .validateBorrow
      • Mint debt token
      • setBorrowing
      • update IsolationMode debt
      • transfer underlying to user
    • repay
      • get current debt
      • validateRepay, paybackAmount
      • burn debt tokens
      • Cleanup + Collect repay
    • liquidate
      • _calculateDebt
      • validateLiquidationCall
      • getConfigurationData
      • calculateAvailableCollateralToLiquidate
      • 🚧_burnDebtTokens
      • liquidate/burn collateral
      • liquidation Fee
      • Wrap-up
    • 🚧swapBorrowRateMode
    • 🚧setUserUseReserveAsCollateral
  • Contracts
    • AToken
      • Simple example: mint & balanceOf
    • StableDebtToken
      • Implementation explained
    • VariableDebtToken
    • DefaultReserveInterestRateStrategy
    • L2
      • 🚧PriceOracleSentinel
  • Audit findings
    • 🚧Under construction
  • Appendix
    • Simple, Compound, APR, APY
  • Aave Features
    • Risk Management
      • Supply & Borrow Caps
      • Isolation Mode
      • Siloed Borrowing
    • Other features
      • Repay with ATokens
      • eMode: High efficiency Mode
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  1. Functions

borrow

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Overview

This function is called when the user wishes to take out a loan. Since Aave is an overcollateralized borrowing protocol, users can borrow up to a fraction of their deposited collateral.

Before being able to call borrow, users must have deposited collateral via supply.

  • executeBorrow contains the core logics of the borrow function

executeBorrow

Execution flow

Visual Aid

We will breakdown and examine the unique sections of logics within executeBorrow. Code delineated in orange are common functions and can be explored in that .

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