On today's Talking Tokens, we're sharing Jacquelyn’s Proof of Talk chat with Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave Labs, to break down why Aave V4 moved away from a single monolithic protocol toward a hub and spoke model that works more like a central bank. Stani gets into why a lot of centralized lenders didn't hold up through both the FTX collapse and last October's market unwind.

Then Stani explains why he thinks the next real growth phase for DeFi comes from financing things like AI infrastructure, tokenized equity, and credit for businesses that have never had access to capital this efficient before.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction to Aave and Stani Kulechov

03:09 Evolution from Aave V3 to Aave V4

06:03 Risk Management in DeFi

08:45 Building Network Resilience

11:58 Aave V4 and Corporate Treasury Management

14:48 Tokenized Assets and Aave Horizon

18:11 Institutional Interest in Tokenization

20:52 Mainstream Adoption of DeFi

24:02 Future Vision for Aave

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