Stephen 🔺

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

BIG DAY KETTOOORS! eKET is finally here! Follow the step below if you're an orb holder to register for the upcoming eKET airdrop. If you aren't an orb holder do not worry you can test all of this out regardless. 1) Encrypted $ket is here, you can access it at ketorbs.xyz/eerc ! $eKET uses the new EERC standard by @AvaCloud. Your current balance and the amount you transfer are kept private using Zero Knowledge Proofs. Learn more at avacloud.gitbook.io/encrypted-erc/… 2) Before getting started, you'll need to take a few steps. First, generate an off-chain decryption key (can be done many times, is saved to your browser, no need to save this key) Next, do a one-time registration for $eKET (you need to submit a transaction for this). 3) Once you've done that, you will be able to deposit $ket to $eKET or withdraw from $eKET to $ket 4) If you have a balance if $eKET, either by depositing or receiving it from someone else, you can transfer it to another user. But note that the user MUST be registered in order to send to them! 5) If you're a Ket Orb holder, you'll be receiving an airdrop of $eKET as long as you complete the following steps! * Register your wallet address holding the orbs (requirement for $eKET!) * Send any amount of $eKET to any other address! It can even be your own, just help us test out the protocol. The airdrop will happen in 1 week! Make sure to register before then. 6) We're currently reviewing the EERC bounty submissions and will announce a winner soon!

Stealth mode deactivated❗️ 📢 Calling all devs for our next community call on 5/16 to discuss ACP-194: Streaming Asynchronous Execution ⚡️ github.com/avalanche-foun…