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Backstage Pass: Stani Kulechov with jingle bells on

Aave drama // Pump.thief // Caroline the Scrivener // Regulatory Wonder Twins // Kain's home town

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Brady Dale
Dec 25, 2025
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Hi everyone. Not really sure why I’m doing a send today other than the fact I said I would. Maybe you could use a couple of pithy metaphors about the crypto world?

Maybe your mom asked you to help with the ham! What do people do with hams? I don’t know, but now you can say: ‘Oh sorry, mom, I gotta read this email’

I’m here to help!

So here it is because I said I would do it, and I stick to my commitments. But I also kept it short

11 years ago, the price of bitcoin was $321
The 11th largest cryptocurrency was counterparty
The 111th was nanite

Nice flex, bro

Aave turned from the calm king of decentralized finance to a Godzilla versus King Kong movie for Crypto Twitter.

On one side, Stani Kulechov, CEO of Avara, founder of Aave, one of the best-known founders in crypto. On the other side, the whole DAO that grew up around Aave, the gigantic money market.

Not really sure which to call Godzilla and which to call King Kong, but I know this: the landscape is low on threats for crypto right now. There’…

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