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April 29, 2026 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK is in the midst of a consultation on digital assets and regulation. Beginning in October 2027, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will add crypto to its remit. The consultation covers topics like issuing a qualifying stablecoin, operating trading platforms, dealing and arranging… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 2:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Blockchain Association and Ava Labs recently visited with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force to discuss the topic of two types of “protocol tokens,” as the Commission works toward creating a regulatory approach toward tokenization. Regulation PT These digital assets break down… Read More

July 28, 2025 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Everything’s in place for Web3 minds to deliver value to every area of finance, beginning with home ownership and extending to areas like instant payments and budgeting. For John Nahas, Ava Labs’ chief business officer, it’s about time. 3 keys to the impending boom Nahas… Read More

September 13, 2024 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ParaFi Capital, an alternative asset management and technology firm with over $1 billion in assets under management, has tapped Securitize, a firm focused on tokenizing real-world assets, to tokenize an interest in one of its venture funds on the Avalanche blockchain. Since inception in 2018,… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses with a fiat-to-crypto onramp, now supports the Avalanche C-Chain. Retail users can purchase AVAX directly “through Stripe, removing the need to go through an exchange.” Available to U.S. Stripe’s fiat-to-crypto onramp is “a customizable widget embedded into Avalanche… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tenzro is launching its AI content platform on Avalanche, aiming to serve as an open, composable platform for any developer to be able to easily launch AI-powered creative content capabilities. By enabling dApp builders with robust AI capabilities, Tenzro believes that “all content creators, such… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 7:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs is accelerating its push in India with key strategic hires: Devika Mittal and Kamakshi Arjun, who will focus on the firm’s growth in the Indian market. Before joining Ava Labs, Devika was “the Head of Token Listings for Okcoin (in the OKX umbrella),… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs announced it has entered into a partnership with Tencent Cloud to support projects and developers across the Avalanche ecosystem. In addition to providing developers with rapid node deployment, both parties will also “explore Avalanche Subnets for enterprises to help accelerate adoption of Web3… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 4:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ava Labs has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to boost the adoption of the Avalanche blockchain. Avalanche, created by Ava Labs, is a high-performance distributed ledger technology that aims to be “the fastest, most reliable smart contracts platform in the world.” AWS is the… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 11:52 pm By Lee Schneider  |  

SOL, the native token of the Solana public blockchain, is the latest victim of a scurrilous attack by plaintiffs’ lawyers claiming that yet another blockchain token is an investment contract under the test famously set forth in S.E.C. v. W.J. Howey.  The claims perpetuate the… Read More

May 10, 2022 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

There has been a certain amount of panic and a large amount of discussion regarding UST (TerraUSD), an algorithmic stablecoin ostensibly pegged to the US dollar, losing its one-to-one valuation. Currently, UST is recovering trading around $0.9273 but in the past 24 hours, UST traded… 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

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

December 14, 2020 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic has revealed its next funding vertical today in a unique venture with Avalanche and Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, LLP. Initial Litigation Offerings or “ILO” will soon bring the multi-billion dollar asset class to retail investors, according to a blog post. In fact, the first ILO… Read More

October 18, 2020 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” notes that Avalanche has integrated with Magic to bring passwordless authentication to the blockchain based platform. The Ava Labs team… Read More

October 13, 2020 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” notes that ecosystem growth on Avalanche is “imperative.” Ava Labs confirms that while working towards Avalanche’s mainnet launch, they had… Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” has introduced the newest class of grant recipients for Avalanche-X, which is an accelerator program for blockchain developers focused on… Read More

October 3, 2020 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” has noted that leading up to the official launch of the Avalanche mainnet, it… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John Wu, the president at Ava Labs, a company that aims to create the next generation of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, notes that his organization is working with a large European digital asset manager. Wu, who was joined by Dr. Emin Gün Sirer, who is… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Avalanche team, which develops blockchain-powered apps including those involving decentralized finance or DeFi, says it’s been working to ensure Avalanche has “a successful, decentralized launch” while offering a great user experience. The developers at Avalanche, which is led by Cornell computer science professor Emin… Read More