John Nahas on Why One-Size-Fits-All Blockchains are Failing Global Institutions
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think where we're going and where we've been is to a more distributed approach, |
| 0:04.3 | kind of like what the internet looks like now. |
| 0:05.9 | And you could kind of think of us maybe as WordPress. |
| 0:08.3 | Like if you asked me 20 years ago, if I wanted a website, I think you're crazy. |
| 0:12.6 | Right. |
| 0:12.9 | But now we take for granted that anybody, any business, smaller, large can spin up a website |
| 0:17.3 | and become a business. |
| 0:19.1 | Well, why can't we do that with blockchains? |
| 0:21.3 | Like, why are we focused on this one large, ever-expanding pipe that's supposed to fit everything in it |
| 0:29.3 | when the world doesn't work that way? |
| 0:36.9 | All right, things are wild in the crypto space these days. |
| 0:39.7 | And I thought it would be interesting to talk to someone who's been in the space for a good |
| 0:43.9 | number of years, is helping to build and promote and do business with one of the largest |
| 0:49.9 | blockchains out there that's doing some really interesting work. |
| 0:53.1 | So we decided to have John Nehas, |
| 0:54.8 | who's the chief business officer of Avalanche with us today. John is very outspoken in his |
| 1:02.1 | opinions on where things are right now, where they're going. I think that Avalanche has really |
| 1:06.5 | taken a unique approach in the idea that what used to be subnets now is just tons and tons of |
| 1:13.5 | layer ones that they're building as a custom tool for any business. |
| 1:17.7 | And the layer one is really focused on that blockchain solving a business need. |
| 1:22.6 | And I really appreciate that approach. |
| 1:24.0 | We've spent a lot of time with Avalanche over the last couple of years. |
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