Stani Kulechov is the Founder of Aave and Lens protocols.

In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview this legendary DeFi founder. Having built Aave into one of the world's largest DeFi protocols with an all-time high of $30B TVL, Stani made the bold move in 2021 to jumpstart another wildly challenging Web3 startup that would deliver a self-sovereign alternative to social media–called Lens.

Lens is a decentralized composable social layer. You can think of it as "not your keys, not your follower graph" and it has proven to be the most foundational lego in the decentralized social stack jumpstarting a Web3 alternative to apps like Twitter and YouTube. Stani joins us to talk about their recently announced scaling solution for decentralized social called Momoka.

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Topics Covered

00:00 - Intro
06:23 - What is Lens
11:48 - First year of Lens
15:48 - Lens as an alternative to Web2
22:48 - Why Lens opted for on-chain
27:16 - Introducing Momoka
34:36 - Dumbing down Momoka
38:04 - Defining an L3
42:03 - Why open source
43:34 - Opening Lens to the public
45:46 - Future decentralization roadmap
49:58 - Closing

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Guest Links

Stani on Lens
https://lenster.xyz/u/stani

Learn about Lens
http://lens.xyz/

Try Lenstube
https://lenstube.xyz/

Learn about Momoka
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/3Hcl0dGE8AOYmnFolzqO6hJuueDHdsaCs3ols2ruc9E

Learn about Lens SDK 1.0
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/LtJBLD6zX_P9EYdsJ2DrT9RaCbiE2vvtajF4Md6wHr0

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