Chris Li
Chris Li (LinkedIn) is the founder of Ava Protocol. Prior to establishing Ava Protocol, Chris gained valuable experience as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is also a long-term EVM smart contract developer, Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and lecturer of Blockchain Xcelerator at Berkeley.
Ava runs on four layers. The model is only one of them.
When we started building Ava, we thought the hardest part would be teaching a model to reason about crypto. That turned out to be only one part of the problem.
Tokens aren’t the new dollars. Stripe is buying something more important.
Martin Casado published a great piece on Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter, arguing that LLM tokens have become a new, universal medium of value exchange.
2025 Year in Review: AI Powering Web3 Workflow
Ava Protocol’s 2025: Studio + EigenCloud brought AI on-chain workflows to more users, plus a look ahead to 2026: x402 payments and a chat-based GPT experience.
Secure Your Spot: Ava Protocol Legacy Token Conversion Now Open Ahead of TGE
Convert your TUR tokens and OAK crowdloans to AP and join Ava Protocol’s next phase.
Ava Protocol on EigenLayer: A Technical Review for Web3 Developers
A Q&A guide to Ava Protocol’s decentralized automation framework for building secure, event-driven blockchain workflows.
Streamline Smart Contracts: How Ava Protocol Transforms Web3 Wallet Automation
Ava Protocol simplifies the automation of super-transactions and smart contract functions, enabling seamless web3 user experiences.
The History of Ava Protocol: A Journey in Progress
A founder's account of Ava Protocol's evolution into an advanced web3 automation service for Ethereum and beyond.
Ava Protocol Launches an Event-Driven EigenLayer AVS on Ethereum
Ava Protocol empowers web3 automation with seamless, private, and composable transactions for Ethereum and beyond.
Super-Transactions: Empowering Web3 Automation with Ava Protocol
Ava Protocol’s seamless, private, and composable automation unlocks new possibilities for decentralized applications.
OAK Network Is Now Ava Protocol: From Polkadot to Ethereum and Beyond
Expanding our autonomous transaction capabilities to multiple blockchain ecosystems while maintaining seamless continuity.
OAK Network wins grant from Web3 to build quadratic funding module
OAK Network, a blockchain startup from San Francisco, has been awarded a grant from the Web3 Foundation to build an innovative crowdfunding module
