Ava Labs (Avalanche)

And I would just say, watch the...

both the Avalanche Foundation, Ava Labs, and AVAX One, among the three of us, there's a lot of investments early stage that the foundations and the labs will make, supporting companies, building in the ecosystem.

We meet a lot of companies that way.

And we have the Avalanche Summit coming up in New York next week, where there's going to be a lot of momentum and a great opportunity to get together with other builders and hear what's the latest.

And today we're taking a deep dive into the I guess just being a fan, fan engagement, sports tech, where it's going, technology, relationships, data, engagement, all that in a bag of chips.

And we have the expert in this space, Jake, joining us today from Ava Labs.

So, Jake, why don't you go ahead and give us a quick elevator pitch, a short story on who you are, what you're doing, and what we're going to talk about today.

Yeah, man.

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Today, we're sitting down with Charley Cooper, the new president of Ava Labs.

Charlie has worked at the intersection of Wall Street and blockchain for more than a decade, going back to the early days of R3.

Now, he's helping lead the company behind one of crypto's biggest layer one blockchains.

I know Ellie mentioned in the intro R3.

Yeah.

But before we get into, you know, Avalanche, some of the things that are going on right now on the regulatory front, tokenized assets, all these things, can you kinda give us a quick version of, like, your journey, and then what ultimately led you to Ava Labs?

You want a quick version.