The Future of AI & Blockchain? Aptos CEO Reveals the Plan! | Avery Ching
June 23, 2026
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5 min readAptos CEO on Trading, AI, and the Coming On-Chain Economy
Avery Ching, CEO of Aptos Labs, spent years inside Facebook building the Libra/Diem project that regulators ultimately killed. Now he sees the pendulum swinging the other way. "We underestimated the impact of regulatory clarity," he says, pointing to the Clarity Act's progress through Congress. "We're here where industry is moving forward and the government is supportive of crypto being big in America. Things are completely reversed."
Trading as Blockchain's Core Use Case
Ching is unusually direct about what blockchains are actually good for. "Blockchains are not better than cloud infrastructure for storage because they're hundreds of times more expensive," he says. "But what they're tremendously good at is providing a database in which assets can be owned and traded without a central authority."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (04:03) **Podcast intro** - Host welcomes listeners and introduces Aptos CEO Avery Ching
- 2 (04:26) **Regulation outlook** - Discussion of the Clarity Act and Senate progress
- 3 (06:13) **Impact if bill passes** - What on-chain finance and Aptos gain from regulatory approval
- 4 (08:11) **Current blockers** - Remaining hurdles beyond regulation
- 5 (11:10) **Technical milestone** - Aptos achieves first L1 formal verification of dynamic dispatch
- 6 (12:47) **$50M investment** - Commitment to trading and AI tech stack
- 7 (15:01) **Core use case** - Why trading and asset movement are blockchain’s strongest fit
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Show Notes
Topics:
- Aptos the first L1 where dynamic dispatch can be formally verified
- Aptos commits $50M to expand its tech stack for trading and AI workloads
- AI and Blockchain synergy
- Privacy on the Aptos blockchain
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⏰ Time Stamps ⏰
00:00 Intro
03:12 Avery's top priority
04:59 Clarity Act passing impact on Crypto
06:25 Assets staying onchain
09:50 First L1 Dynamic Dispatch
16:29 Utilizing AI
21:51 Social Networks utilize blockchain
23:17 Privacy strategy
29:02 Quantum resistance strategy
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