Stani (@StaniKulechov) — Twitter Score 966 out of 1000

Stani is Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave, ETHLend, and Avara. He works at Aave Labs as CEO and at Avara as chief executive, with Avara serving as the parent technology company whose portfolio includes Aave Labs, Family wallet, Lens Protocol, and the GHO stablecoin. Stani's Twitter Score is 966 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, placing him at rank #22 (top 0.1%) out of 493,607 accounts, with 306,025 followers as of October 2026. His score puts him among the 35 accounts on this platform scoring above 900.

Stani founded ETHLend in 2017 and relaunched it as Aave in January 2020 with a liquidity-pool lending model. Aave pioneered flash loans, and in 2023 he announced GHO, a decentralized stablecoin backed by Aave protocol collateral. The protocol reached a peak of $75 billion in deposits in 2025, ending the year at $55 billion, a 57% increase from the start of the year. Avara is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Dublin and had 90 employees as of May 2025. Stani has published 7,119 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 1,398 accounts a total of 3,707 times.

Stani has pursued several developments at Aave Labs. An Aave Labs subsidiary, Push Virtual Assets Ireland Limited, secured MiCAR Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland for zero-fee stablecoin on- and off-ramping. In July 2025, Aave partnered with MetaMask and Mastercard to let users spend yield-bearing assets via the MetaMask debit card in Europe. Aave Labs also acquired San Francisco-based Stable Finance to expand consumer-focused DeFi products. In September 2025, Stani spoke at the Reform UK party conference at crypto-focused sessions sponsored by Aave Labs. He is additionally affiliated with MaskDAO and is listed as the actual beneficiary of Estonian company Quantum Swan OÜ, formerly named Block Research OÜ. Stani's activity also spans BarnBridge, Vega Protocol, ZKsync, Zapper, Zerion, Common, NEAR Protocol and Sonic.

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Stani draws a following from across the crypto and technology investment space. The accounts that follow Stani include 4,003 founders, 1,033 angel investors, 1,536 influencers and 109 VCs, among them Balaji, Chris Dixon, Solana, Toly, ZachXBT and Cobie.