The Return of Aave | Stani Kulechov
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
How are Aave and Lens Protocol bringing this inevitable future to reality sooner than expected? What is the current state of the DeFi landscape? Buckle up because Stani will unpack these questions and so much more.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
7:00 What's New With Stani
10:15 DeFi in 2021
14:13 Aave Portals
23:00 Maintaining Market Share
27:25 Forecasting the Future of Chains
32:57 Bridging & Security
37:38 Efficiency Mode
40:23 Isolation Mode
44:20 Stani's Thoughts on Rari
48:18 Future Aave Versions
54:30 Stani's PFP
57:15 Lens Protocol & Web3 Social
1:10:00 Lens Protocol All-Star Team & Roadmap
1:14:09 Rapid Fire Questions
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Resources:
Stani Kulechov:
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov
Aave:
https://aave.com/
Lens Protocol:
https://lens.dev/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Bankless Nation. Welcome to another episode of State of the Nation where we do a deep dive |
| 0:11.2 | on a hot topic. The hot topic this week is Ave V3, the return of Ave. Super excited about |
| 0:18.4 | this new Ave version just launched. We have the founder of Ave on the episode today. We're |
| 0:25.9 | going to talk with Stani all about the launch of Ave. We're going to talk about some other |
| 0:29.4 | things too, David. What's on the agenda for today? Ave has expanded its scope just beyond borrowing |
| 0:36.3 | and lending. So in addition to Ave, we're going to talk a little bit about Lens Protocol. We had |
| 0:40.5 | a Christina from Ave on our panel all about the Web 3 social world, which is something that is |
| 0:47.4 | boiling under the scenes, I think, behind the front page of Web 3. Social Web 3 is a thing, |
| 0:54.8 | and Ave, the team at Ave is leading the charge. So there's so much unpack with Ave V3, but there's |
| 1:00.4 | also so much unpack with Lens Protocol. And of course, Stani has been around since before you and I, |
| 1:06.9 | Ryan. And so I just want to pick the brain of an OG DeFi builder that's kind of seen at all. |
| 1:11.6 | What's he think about the world of crypto in 2022? We're going to get into all of these subjects. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, I've got a lot of questions for him, particularly on that last piece, right? |
| 1:20.2 | Be able to pick his brain and talk about, will DeFi ever recover relative to ETH? |
| 1:25.5 | What does he think about this new crop of DeFi 2.0 builders, this new class, these young hooligans? |
| 1:33.0 | Are they shaking things up? So a lot more to talk about. Guys, before we get into the episode, |
| 1:38.4 | want to tell you a bit more about Zirion, our friends at Zirion. They've got an announcement, |
| 1:43.6 | a special announcement, I think we've been talking about this for the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:47.7 | They are releasing a multi-chain world here. A lot more to explore on Zirion. Zirion, of course, |
| 1:54.0 | is a place where you could take your non-custodial wallet, whether that's Metamask, whether that's |
| 1:58.6 | your ledger. You keep your private keys. You plug it into this fantastic interface. And then you |
| 2:03.8 | could do things with your crypto money. Imagine that. That's what DeFi provides. And you could do |
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