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Avery Ching

Avery Ching

Co-Founder & CEO of Aptos Labs, Aptos Labs

Aptos Labs website

Bio

Avery Ching is a Co-Founder and the current CEO of Aptos Labs, the primary company building infrastructure for the Aptos Layer-1 blockchain. He leads the organization following Mo Shaikh's departure from the CEO role in December 2024.

Ching came to Aptos Labs from Meta, where he worked as a principal engineer on distributed systems and the Diem/Libra blockchain project. At Meta he was involved in platform engineering for large-scale systems and contributed to the blockchain engineering work that later informed Aptos's technical design. He is credited among the engineers who worked on core Aptos primitives including the Move programming model, Block-STM parallel execution engine, and components of the Narwhal/Bullshark consensus lineage.

In 2021 he co-founded Aptos Labs alongside Mo Shaikh. Aptos mainnet launched in October 2022. After Shaikh stepped down in December 2024, Ching became CEO and has since led Aptos Labs' technical and institutional strategy, including its 2026 focus on financial-market infrastructure, payments and enterprise blockchain adoption.

Information last checked: August 2026

Profile at a glance

Status
Active

Work & Project Background

  • Aptos Labs

    Co-founder

Key Contributions

Co-Founded Aptos Labs

Co-founded Aptos Labs in 2021, bringing large-scale distributed-systems expertise from Meta to build a high-performance Move-based Layer-1.

Block-STM Parallel Execution

Aptos Labs credits the founding team, including Ching, with contributions to Block-STM, the optimistic parallel transaction-execution engine that is central to Aptos's throughput design.

Move Language Ecosystem

Supported the development and adoption of Move as Aptos's smart-contract language, working alongside Sam Blackshear's foundational language work.

Aptos Mainnet & Growth

Was part of the core leadership team that launched Aptos mainnet in October 2022 and grew the ecosystem to hundreds of applications and protocols.

CEO & 2026 Institutional Direction

As CEO from December 2024, has directed Aptos Labs toward institutional financial infrastructure, payments, tokenization and enterprise adoption.

Timeline

Pre-2021
Principal engineer at Meta (Facebook), working on distributed systems and blockchain/crypto-platform engineering, including work related to the Diem project.
2021
Co-founded Aptos Labs with Mo Shaikh. Initial technical focus included Move language, Block-STM execution and consensus design.
October 2022
Aptos mainnet went live. Ching served in technical leadership, overseeing core protocol engineering.
December 2024
Assumed CEO role at Aptos Labs after co-founder Mo Shaikh stepped down.
2025–2026
Leading Aptos Labs as CEO, directing institutional financial-infrastructure strategy, ecosystem growth and the Move-based developer platform.
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