Aave founder Stani Kulechov said at the 2023 StarkWare conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, "Building a payment layer that includes stablecoins may drive DeFi growth. Compared with TradFi products, DeFi quantifies risks with better accuracy, which may drive further adoption in this field because it means that operations in DeFi will actually be cheaper than TradFi, and risks are easier to identify." (Cointelegraph)