US Banks: Reminder: BofA Expert Insights: Ava Labs & Banks — Scaling On-Chain Finance

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US Banks: Reminder: BofA Expert Insights: Ava Labs & Banks — Scaling On-Chain Finance

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US Banks

Reminder: BofA Expert Insights: Ava Labs

& Banks — Scaling On-Chain Finance

Invitation

Topic 14 May 2026

Join Ebrahim Poonawala, Head of North American Banks Research, for a virtual fireside Equity

conversation with John Wu, President of Ava Labs. The discussion will focus on how United States

banks are using blockchain technology in practice, where compelling use cases are Banks

emerging across payments, tokenization, and settlement, and what remains experimental

Related Researchversus scalable. Drawing on Ava Labs’ experience partnering with financial institutions,

the fireside will explore what these efforts could signal for bank strategy, US Banks: On-Chain: Canton and Tokenization:

competitiveness, and long‑term shareholder value. The Structural Shift On‑Chain

John Wu is President of Ava Labs, a blockchain technology company, where he leads US Banks: On-Chain: The Final Push for Crypto

commercial and product teams building blockchain infrastructure for financial Clarity: Policy Insights from Capitol Hill

institutions and enterprise use cases on the Avalanche platform. He brings over 20 years

US Banks: On-Chain: Stablecoins &

of experience as a fintech executive and technology investor, having previously run Tokenization: The Genie is Out of the Bottle

Sureview Capital, a global hedge fund backed by Blackstone, managed a global

technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital, and began his career at Tiger Management. John

holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard, serves as an executive

fellow at Harvard Business School, and sits on multiple Cornell University boards.

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Ebrahim H.