Scaling Decentralized Social with Stani Kulechov | The Edge Podcast
Stani Kulechov is the Founder of Aave and Lens protocols.
In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview the legendary DeFi founder Stani Kulechov. 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 or 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
06:05 - What is Lens
11:30 - First year of Lens
15:30 - Lens as an alternative to Web2
22:30 - Why Lens opted for on-chain
26:58 - Introducing Momoka
34:18 - Dumbing down Momoka
37:48 - Defining an L3
41:45 - Why open source
43:16 - Opening Lens to public
45:28 - Future decentralization roadamp
49:40 - Closing
Guest Links
Stani on Lens
lenster.xyz/u/stani
Learn about Lens
lens.xyz/
Try Lenstube
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Learn about Momoka
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Learn about Lens SDK 1.0
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