Tagged: john wu

April 14, 2023 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Evergreen Subnet, “Spruce,” has been launched with an initial cohort of institutional partners that includes T. Rowe Price Associates, WisdomTree, Wellington Management, and Cumberland. Participating institutions will be using Spruce “as a testnet for a variety of applications and assets to measure the benefits… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities platform enabling both primary issuance as well as secondary trading, has announced a new tokenized asset that provides investors with exposure to a fund created by KKR. KKR is a fabled buy-out firm and asset management company. KKR sponsors various funds… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Emin Gün Sirer has a “major beef” with the crypto economy: “It’s not growing fast enough.” As mentioned in an update shared by Mastercard, Dr. Sirer is an early crypto innovator who co-founded the blockchain startup Ava Labs with the goal of digitizing the… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, the provider of digital asset financial services, now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) native token and assets launched natively on Avalanche’s C-Chain “across its custody and hot wallet products.” As mentioned in the update, this gives BitGo’s clients the “most secure and reliable way to… Read More

November 17, 2021 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte has entered an alliance with tech firm Ava Labs in order to support a new disaster recovery platform that leverages the Avalanche blockchain to “help state and local governments easily demonstrate their eligibility for federal emergency funding.” As mentioned in the announcement: “Developed with… Read More

August 24, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche lending protocol BENQI has reached $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) only a few days after its launch. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, has managed to attract more than $1 billion in total assets to its “decentralized” platform since its launch on… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lee A. Schneider has joined Ava Labs as the firm’s first General Counsel, according to a note from the company. Schneider is well known in the crypto/blockchain sector having previously been GC of Block.one/EOS. He is a regular suspect in Washington, DC where he is… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Emin Gün Sirer‘s Ava Labs Avalanche token sale has raised $12 million led by Initialized Capital and other well-known investors including Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, NGC Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital. Avalanche (previously AVA) has recently gone through a brand consolidation following the successful launch of its… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Deloitte claims that Fintech industry professionals no longer think that blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) is “groundbreaking and merely promising.” The professional services firm’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey polled around 1,500 senior management professionals and found that: “Initial doubts about… Read More

March 1, 2020 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AVA Labs, an efficient and modular decentralized services platform, has acquired Investery Inc., a private capital markets platform, that aims to assist investors in managing alternative investments.  Investery’s current business partnerships will be transitioning over to AVA. John Wu, CEO and founder at Investery, and… Read More