Avery Ching

Avery Ching is the CEO and co-founder of Aptos Labs, the core development team behind the Aptos layer 1 blockchain, which uses the Move programming language. He co-founded the company in 2021 with Mo Shaikh after both worked on Meta's Diem blockchain project, where Ching served as tech lead of the crypto platform, and he took over as CEO in December 2024. Before Meta, he spent years leading large-scale distributed systems and batch processing infrastructure teams at Facebook and Yahoo, following earlier work at national research labs including Los Alamos and Sandia. Born and raised in Honolulu, he holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, specializing in supercomputing and parallel computing frameworks.

9 talks by Avery Ching

• The Perp DEX Space Is Crowded. Can Aptos' Upcoming Decibel Compete?
• Why Trump's World Liberty Fi Chose Aptos (and What It Means for Crypto’s Future)
• The Race to Scale: Who Will Power the Next 100M Users?
• Crypto's Ultimate End State With Avery Ching
• Endstate of High Throughput Blockchains with CTOs
• Modular vs. Monolithic Short Debate with Aptos Co-Founder Avery Ching
• Building Modular Move Networks on Ethereum | Nick White, Rushi Manche & Avery Ching
• The Chopping Block: Why Are We Still Building Layer 1s? - Ep. 487
• Episode 272 - The Move into Web3 with Aptos’ Avery Ching