Less than 24 hours after the Senate voted 49-50 against advancing the Clarity Act, Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov said decentralized finance may need to take an "Uber path" to regulation — growing adoption until lawmakers can no longer ignore it. Kulechov made the comments in an interview with The Block at Avalanche Summit in New York and said he remains "very hopeful" Clarity can still happen this year, noting many lawmakers want clearer definitions, safeguards and market structure. Aave is pushing beyond crypto-native assets, unveiling a real-world asset hub on Avalanche for institutional lending and borrowing that allows certain tokenized assets as collateral to borrow stablecoins. Kulechov said "Tokenization and DeFi are not a technological challenge anymore" and called it "a go-to-market challenge," and previewed a consumer app to abstract wallets, networks and stablecoins to let users move money between bank accounts and Aave. [The Block]