The Future of Aptos: Ecosystem Scaling, Stablecoins & DeFi

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing an interview with Ash Pampati, head of ecosystem at Aptos. 

Aptos is a layer-1 blockchain that has seen lots of growth lately in ecosystem expansion with the Movemaker initiative and Move AI Hackathon, network updates like Shardines and the recently deployed USDe via Ethena Labs. 

This episode is the fourth quarterly webinar we’ve done with Aptos - so I’m excited to have Ash in studio after we had Avery Ching, Aptos CEO and Cofounder on the show in late January.

We dive into Ash’s core principles for growth, how he looks at scaling Aptos’ ecosystem, tapping into existing web3 users versus non-web3 native users and institutions, expanding DeFi and stablecoins on the network and more. 

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Money and people moves

The biggest updates regarding startups that raised capital, moved money or did a little bit of both as well as market players who have left their web3 job or are starting something new.

1. The Ethereum Foundation adds Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-Executive Directors

2. Ish Verfuzco departs a16z, but plans to still support crypto teams and founders as a consultant

3. Danny Ryan joins Etherealize as co-founder to help expand the Ethereum ecosystem

4. Ex House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry joins Ondo Finance

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