News with the tag "Emin Gun Sirer"

The need for the U.S to implement dollar-backed stablecoins “couldn’t be timelier” as China continues to come up with its own solutions, former House speaker Paul D. Ryan stressed.

The meme coin phenomenon, where communities produce tokens with no other support than a meme behind it, has given rise to opposing opinions. These range from the most positive ones, which regard them as value-affirming elements, to the negative ones, which state that there is no value behind them. B...

Emin Gün Sirer, the brains behind Ava Labs, recently sounded the alarm on the proliferation of subpar layer 2 solutions, aptly named “trash L2s,” aiming to swoop in and occupy the space left wide open by Sam Bankman-Fried. These new entrants are marked by their reliance on centralized sequencers dev...

Source: AdobeStock / freshidea Ava Labs, the team behind the Avalanche ( AVAX) blockchain, has confirmed a 12% reduction in its workforce citing the need to reallocate resources as the driving force behind the staff cuts. Emin Gün Sirer, founder and CEO of Ava Labs, announced the news in a recent po...

Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer however stressed the firm is well-positioned with significant runway and resources at its disposal.

Gün Sirer says the U.S. “won the first wave of the internet revolution” because it enabled responsible innovation. Now, it must do the same with blockchain.

Emin Gün Sirer, the founder and CEO of Ava Labs, has been awarded millions in damages after an influencer publicly accused him of being part of a Turkish terrorist group in 2021.