Stani Kulechov rejects cryptocurrency winter.

Kuletsov was born in Estonia, former Soviet Union, in 1991. Before that, his family moved to Finland and settled in Helsinki amid the economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He came across Ethereum and started learning about smart contracts while attending law school at the University of Helsinki in 2015. Kulechov built “ETHLend,” the predecessor of the Aave protocol, in his dormitory at the same university. Kulechov currently lives in London, where Avara is headquartered.