Stani Kulechov (Aave): "DeFi will become the heart of finance".

👉 The news. The Aave protocol, a leader in decentralised savings and loans, was one of the stars of the EthCC.

👉 The context. DeFi is benefiting from recent scandals in centralised finance (Celsius, Three Arrows...).‍

👉 Why it matters. Aave wants to become one of the bridges to traditional finance.

What did you think of this edition of EthCC?

The Ethereum community keeps growing, it's quite impressive. What I like about the EthCC is that the participants are focused on applications and their development, we talk about projects and very little about markets. This conference allows us to talk about the real challenges facing the community. I took part in several very good debates over the three days, and I saw Vitalik Buterin's keynote, which gave his personal vision of things and how he sees Ethereum in the long term.

Just how do you welcome The Merge and the development of Layer 2 (second layers)? The Ethereum ecosystem looks ebullient...

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