Revolutionizing Social Media: Avara Founder Stani Kulechov on Aave and the Lens Protocol
In this episode of Overnight Success, Chris sits down with Stani Kulechov, the visionary founder of Aave, as they delve into Stani's captivating journey from an early interest in technology and gaming to pioneering decentralized finance (DeFi) with Aave. Stani shares insights into the evolution of blockchain technology, his fascination with Ethereum's programmable money capabilities, and the inception of Aave as a groundbreaking lending and borrowing platform. The conversation unfolds into a fascinating exploration of the Lens Protocol, Stani's latest venture, redefining social media on Web3 by introducing decentralized on-chain profiles and dynamic NFTs. As they discuss the potential shift of major platforms like Twitter into the Web3 space, Stani reflects on the importance of community-driven verification and the role of Lens in providing censorship-resistant relationships. The episode concludes with Stani's optimistic outlook on the future of decentralized finance and the transformative impact of blockchain technology on both finance and social media.
EIP-7732: Enshrined PBS
Ethereum developers introduce EIP-7732. Obol introduces the Obol Collective. Hyperdrive goes live on mainnet. And Uniswap supports ZKsync Era. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/e500
Ep.34: 34: Reflecting on SC07 Demo Day, Karan from Wildcard, The Rise of TON, time.fun
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 1PM EST live.seedclub.xyz 00:18 Intro - Welcome to Episode 34 and a thank you to everyone who joined us for Demo Day 01:16 Diving right in with Karan from Wildcard to talk about what he’s working on 08:18 Where do you see crypto community growth coming from? What’s working, what’s not? 16:36 Reflecting on SC07 Demo Day, the projects that presented, and how much its grown 25:18 Peace talks about his visual mix from Demo Day that you can mint now on Zora 31:50 How time.fun, the latest emerging social fi app, is remixing a lot of what we’ve seen 38:47 Talking blue chip defi projects and Ryan Watkins tweet on how they’re primed for growth 43:48 The rise of TON as of late and the rush for projects to figure out their Telegram strategy 50:07 Lightning Round - HBD Dopamine Machine, 0xDEAFBEEF, Chris Martz, a pump.fun slot 57:18 A riveting debate on desserts, don’t forget to mint Peace’s piece, we’ll see ya next week Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
Ep.28: Zora acquires Mint.Fun, $FRIEND, Blast szn, Farcaster Incentives
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 1PM EST live.seedclub.xyz 00:23 Intro - Welcome back, it’s episode 28 of Internet Explorers, thanks for those who joined us IRL last week 03:23 Let’s bring Worm Emoji up to the stage to talk about Mint.Fun, Rug.Fun, Context and more 04:40 Worm gives an overview of his journey into crypto and creating Context - the first Web3 social feed 07:51 What did you learn from growing these products and ultimately selling them to bigger companies 14:43 Rug.Fun is all over the timeline, make sure to go claim your airdrop if you haven’t already 17:23 Experimenting with how you can change the way people think about memecoins 21:39 Productizing memecoin consensus building and the big opportunity with becoming the shilling point 25:22 Building chat features into the products your building as a growth mechanism 30:10 Another edition of WTFIPDOC - WTF is Peace doing on-chain - a follow up on Runemilio 37:51 Some new Farcaster incentives coming out of FarCon and the call for more clients 43:21 The inevitability of this being a consumer cycle in crypto and 3 new products that broke into the top 15 49:16 A segue into another consumer product - Friend.Tech and an update on their token launch 54:14 It’s obvious Blast is putting a lot into promoting projects and tokens and NFTs on their network 57:39 Tremp token and the political attention thesis playing out in real time, plus Trump’s take on NFTs 59:01 That’s it for this week, thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you next week at 10am PST / 1pm EST. Enjoy! Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
