Usman Asim

@luigidemeo @AvaLabs one of the best operators in the space - learned a lot from you. wishing you all the best.

Some personal news* - After nearly 5 years, I’ve made the decision to step down from my role as Chief Strategy Officer of @AvaLabs. This comes after a lengthy period of conversations and reflection. Officially, and for the past several months, I’ve been transitioning out of my responsibilities and preparing for a new chapter. Since joining in early 2021, just months after Avalanche's mainnet launch, when our team was a lean group of ~20 people, @avax has been my home, my passion, and a defining part of my career. We've delivered countless upgrades, scaled a network attracting billions in capital across more than 80 chains, brought major banks, asset managers, and enterprises onchain, powered gaming ecosystems, and fostered a vibrant community. I'm proud of what we've built together and the role I was able to play in it. I will forever be grateful to all the people at Ava Labs and the broader Avalanche ecosystem but in particular @el33th4xor, @John1wu, @kevinsekniqi and @JohnNahas84 for the opportunities to grow both personally and professionally. It's a rare privilege to contribute to such a talented team driven by an ambitious mission. As for Avalanche, I remain a believer in the technology, the opportunity, and many of my colleagues. I’ll continue observing, building, advising where valuable, and supporting from the sidelines. I plan to complete my non-operating term as one of the Board Directors for the Avalanche Foundation, which concludes in a few months. As for what’s next, for now I'm pausing to recharge. I’ll be catching up on precious family time (including with our third child, now six months old) and investing in myself a bit. I have and will continue having conversations about where I’m best positioned to contribute to this industry, perhaps as a founder or in another role. I remain as optimistic as ever that blockchains will transform the internet and I intend to contribute my energy towards that future. Stay tuned! -Luigi

Why are major banks racing into crypto? Our CEO @nikil went on @CNBC to break down the regulatory shift that changed everything with @TaliaKaplan and what it means for institutions.

Universal Accounts eliminate the old flow of gathering assets across chains just to fund a trade or action. It all happens in one step. From our livestream with @Alchemy and @asimfiles.

💡 Building onchain? You need indexed blockchain data, not raw blocks. Indexers transform messy chain data into queryable info your app can actually use. Think: token balances, NFT metadata, transaction history. Here's how they work: go.alchemy.com/4aoZmH4

Chain Abstraction Deep Dive: How to Build Multichain Applications with Universal Accounts x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

✨ @solflare powers 4M+ users with instant portfolio analytics and sub-200ms historical queries on @solana. The key? RPC infrastructure 20x faster than alternatives. See how they shipped Token Balance History, Swap History, & PnL without breaking a sweat 👇

The next evolution beyond bridges: chain abstraction ⛓️ Make every asset on every chain feel like one seamless experience. @asimfiles and @web3Dav3 break down universal accounts and how to build with them. 🔴 LIVE Tue Nov 25 @ 10AM PST with @ParticleNtwrk

What's happening on Discord this week? 11/25: Quiz @ 11AM ET 11/26: Community Call @ 12PM ET 11/27: Quiz @ 11AM ET On this week's community call, @asimfiles will join us for a breakdown of agentic payments with x402 & EIP 8004. Join us: go.alchemy.com/4pxc3nD

Institutional Finance: Solana, trends, and infrastructure x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@megabyte0x @Alchemy 🫡

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks @asimfiles 🫡

Institutions are moving to @solana. Fast. Tomorrow: We chat with @SolanaFndn and @PanteraCapital to unpack what's driving the shift. Live on X @ 7AM PT/10AM ET. Don't miss it.

⛽️ Gas fees eating into your users' wallets? We tested 12 Solidity optimization techniques that can cut gas costs 20-50%. From simple compiler tweaks to advanced assembly patterns, here's what actually works 👉 go.alchemy.com/4r9IlXx

We wanted to break down these differences in this guide because Solana devs kept asking: "How do I actually build this?" Full technical walkthrough with working code examples for both wallet types below: alchemy.com/blog/how-to-ma…

Solana also has something called PDAs (Program Derived Addresses) which means programs can generate wallet addresses deterministically & those addresses are controlled by program logic, not private keys This allows programs to sign transactions on behalf of users without ever touching a private key. For example, if you are building a gaming program you can automatically sign a transaction to move your in-game items without you clicking "approve" each time because the program itself controls that specific account On Ethereum, you need external infrastructure (like ERC-4337 bundlers and paymasters) to approximate this On Solana, it's native to how the blockchain works. No workarounds needed.

In case you missed it, this month we launched fully fledged Solana infra Since then, we have seen many devs asking for more content regarding Solana So we listened: here is a complete guide to Solana wallets and why they're fundamentally different from Ethereum 🧵

Building on @solana? Your first wallet is the gateway to everything 🙌 This guide covers: ✅ Solana's account model (different than ETH) ✅ Regular wallets for testing ✅ Smart wallets with social login + gasless txs 60M+ daily txns are happening. → go.alchemy.com/3LMFyDh