Exclusive: Aave Companies rebrands to Avara and acquires crypto wallet (w/ Stani Kulechov)

Chain Reaction - A podcast by TechCrunch, Yashad Kulkarni, Maggie Stamets, Kell Keller, Jacquelyn Melinek

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Stani Kulechov, the founder of Avara, formerly known as Aave Companies. The company is probably best known for Aave protocol, its platform-focused stablecoin GHO and its social network protocol Lens. The web3-focused software technology company announced exclusively on our podcast their rebranding as well as a strategic acquisition of an Ethereum-based crypto wallet. The name Aave will still exist, but through Aave Protocol and Aave Labs, two organizations’ under Avara’s umbrella brand.