Ava Labs’ John Wu talks development and the upside of a crypto winter at TC Periods: Crypto – TechCrunch

The previous few years have been a wild experience by the cryptoverse, and there’s no signal of it calming down anytime quickly. Not when you’ve gotten extremes like a multibillion-dollar collapse of the Terra ecosystem and its UST stablecoin and Andresseen Horowitz (a16z) closing a $4.5 billion crypto megafund.

Whereas some consultants say bundle up for a harsh crypto winter, others remain bullish. This dichotomy is only one purpose we’re thrilled that John Wu, president of Ava Labs, will be part of us onstage at TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami.

Ava Labs, backed by a16z, developed the comparatively new Avalanche blockchain platform with a give attention to pace and low transaction prices. Final 12 months, Avalanche raised $230 million by non-public sale of its AVAX tokens.

Suffice to say, we will’t wait to dig into what guarantees to be a meaty dialog with John Wu. We’ll focus on how the crypto downturn is affecting the expansion of rising blockchain ecosystems and the place he sees the most important alternatives for development amongst a mainstream shopper viewers.

We additionally need his tackle how startups can use a crypto winter to double down on the continued well being and viability of their merchandise, amongst different issues.

As president of Ava Labs, John Wu goals to open up monetary providers and merchandise for everybody. He brings greater than 20 years of experience as a fintech government and expertise investor to making a blockchain-enabled answer for originating, issuing and buying and selling monetary property.

Beforehand, Wu constructed and led the digital property enterprise at SharesPost, the place he served as CEO of the Digital Property Group. Previous to that, he was a expertise investor and the founding father of Sureview Capital, a world hedge fund backed by the Blackstone Group.

Wu started his funding profession at Tiger Administration, earlier than managing a world expertise portfolio at Kingdon Capital. He obtained his MBA from Harvard College and holds a BS in economics from Cornell College.

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