{"id":"avery-ching","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Avery Ching","hidden":false,"content":"**Avery Ching** is the Co-Founder & CTO of [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos) — a layer-1 [proof-of-stake](https://iq.wiki/wiki/proof-of-stake) [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) infrastructure. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-os7g5d091g)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-fmmsqpp564)[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-wyir5rgcc2f)[\\[4\\]](#cite-id-bpe1q51ee2g)  \n$$widget0 [YOUTUBE@VID](NRI8NJ1yPN0)$$  \n  \n# Early Life & Education  \n  \nAvery Ching was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a youngster, he attended Central Union Preschool and spent less than a year at Nuuanu Elementary School. He transferred to Punahou School in the middle of kindergarten and continued there throughout high school. [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-bpe1q51ee2g)  \n  \nHe studied computer engineering at Northwestern University where he also received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering specializing in the area of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-os7g5d091g)[\\[5\\]](#cite-id-rbuxznuesps)  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nAvery Ching started his career in October 2007 as a Principal Software Engineer at **Yahoo!** until September 2011. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-os7g5d091g)  \n  \nAvery Ching was the Tech Lead of **Meta's** [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) platform for over a decade, overseeing projects related to [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) development, wallet infrastructure, strategy, and the Diem blockchain. Additionally, Avery served as the overall Tech Lead of all Meta's batch processing teams, including Spark, Graph processing, Facebook Hive/Hadoop, distributed scheduling, and the unified programming model for pipelines, which power analytics for all Meta's products across hundreds of thousands of machines. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-os7g5d091g)  \n  \n## Aptos  \n  \nIn December 2021, Avery Ching co-founded [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos) alongside [Mo Shaikh](https://iq.wiki/wiki/mo-shaikh) and he serves as the CTO of the company. [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos) is a layer-1 [proof-of-stake](https://iq.wiki/wiki/proof-of-stake) [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) (PoS) infrastructure developed on a combination of system securities, [smart contract](https://iq.wiki/wiki/smart-contract) design, decentralization, consensus & performance technologies. [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos) uses a parallel execution engine (Block-STM)  — a Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) [PoS](https://iq.wiki/wiki/proof-of-stake) consensus mechanism that provides a greater speed of processing transactions. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-os7g5d091g)[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-wyir5rgcc2f)  \n  \n> \"At Aptos, we think that our approach of of being focused on upgradeability actually is the most important thing. The fact that you can start on a journey and that journey can end up in a very different place because of the fact that you can continue to move the network forward with respect to technology and use cases and the primitives that people need to do to enable their use cases that we don't even know about yet\" - Avery Ching on what makes [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos) unique. [\\[6\\]](#cite-id-n926nqmz9ec)  \n  \nAptos has partnered with several organizations like the Korean Triple-A gaming studio - **NPIXEL**, **Google Cloud**, **Pontem Network**, and **MoonPay** to improve gamer experience and to facilitate the running of Aptos nodes and decentralized applications (dApps) on different platforms. [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-hc7p7hxxog)  \n  \nOn how [AI](https://iq.wiki/wiki/artificial-intelligence-ai) fits into the picture with [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) technology, Avery Ching said:  \n  \n> \"Blockchain is an amazing platform as input data for AI. As a source of data, it can be indexed, used in search engines and also support things like ChatGPT going forward. ChatGPT itself can be used to develop smart contracts & also be an assistant in terms of how you program. We believe there's an amazing potential with AI\" - Avery Ching on a podcast episode with The Metaverse[\\[7\\]](#cite-id-phha7rubs1)   \n  \nAvery Ching also talks about expectations in 2023 for [Aptos](https://iq.wiki/wiki/aptos):  \n  \n> \"There's definitely a lot of projects that are coming onboard and that we're excited about, there's very exciting partnerships in the space that we've been focusing on. The 4 areas that we've been focusing on is the Gaming space, Social media space, the Finance space as well as the Media & Entertainment space\"[\\[7\\]](#cite-id-phha7rubs1)","summary":"Avery Ching is the Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Aptos, a layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain infrastructure.","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"promoted":0,"tags":[{"id":"Founders"}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"os7g5d091g\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyching/\",\"description\":\"linkedin\",\"timestamp\":1680259309103},{\"id\":\"fmmsqpp564\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/averyching\",\"description\":\"twitter\",\"timestamp\":1680259971117},{\"id\":\"wyir5rgcc2f\",\"url\":\"https://aptoslabs.com/\",\"description\":\"aptos website\",\"timestamp\":1680260427101},{\"id\":\"bpe1q51ee2g\",\"url\":\"http://users.ece.northwestern.edu/~aching/research_webpage/\",\"description\":\"research web page\",\"timestamp\":1680260455913},{\"id\":\"rbuxznuesps\",\"url\":\"https://consensus.coindesk.com/agenda/speaker/-avery-ching\",\"description\":\"consensus bio\",\"timestamp\":1680261546683},{\"id\":\"n926nqmz9ec\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRI8NJ1yPN0\",\"description\":\"youtube interview \",\"timestamp\":1680265348763},{\"id\":\"phha7rubs1\",\"url\":\"https://open.spotify.com/episode/5k2sdj95GC1bEiPlCKp55W\",\"description\":\"spotify podcast - the metaverse\",\"timestamp\":1681294626500},{\"id\":\"hc7p7hxxog\",\"url\":\"https://aptoslabs.medium.com/\",\"description\":\"medium - aptos\",\"timestamp\":1681297434279}]"},{"id":"website","value":"https://aptoslabs.com/"},{"id":"twitter_profile","value":"https://twitter.com/averyching"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyching/"},{"id":"github_profile","value":"https://github.com/aching"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"added interview quotes"},{"id":"previous_cid","value":"QmdsLkeuXCA3xkKpYQLBFQX5zSFCHsRUABRfhGJHWEiUbF"}],"user":{"id":"0x212Cb3F4aE6611054637f9f78F18fB628AD258bb"},"author":{"id":"0x212Cb3F4aE6611054637f9f78F18fB628AD258bb","profile":{"username":"zainab","avatar":"QmPabyQDLVgKZJN8NQF9EixdgWo3JvLn7gnAWdVkETgMyu"}},"media":[{"name":"NRI8NJ1yPN0","id":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRI8NJ1yPN0","size":"0","type":null,"source":"YOUTUBE"}],"views":15,"events":[{"title":"Co-founded Aptos","description":"Avery Ching co-founded Aptos and serves as the CTO","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2021-12","link":"https://aptoslabs.com/"}],"ipfs":"QmdsLkeuXCA3xkKpYQLBFQX5zSFCHsRUABRfhGJHWEiUbF","transactionHash":"0xdbc753517db09aa83da79fedb527faaf7c7cab17f735f73d9c03c0871533797c","created":"2023-03-31T12:33:13.755Z","updated":"2023-03-31T12:33:13.755Z","images":[{"id":"Qmdsp3yyoAfLvvBVFomLKUUa9p6P8DWoaGcQGxQfqF2FT9","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"linkedWikis":{"blockchains":["aptos"]}}