John Nahas

John Nahas is Chief Business Officer of Ava Labs, a blockchain technology company that builds tools for the Avalanche network. He held that title when Animoca Brands announced a collaboration with Ava Labs in March 2026, and when The Block interviewed him at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in August 2026.

He joined Ava Labs in 2020. Crypto Briefing quoted him as vice president of business development in December 2021, when Fireblocks launched institutional access to Avalanche's C-Chain. In April 2024, when the Avalanche blog announced that stc Bahrain, a telecommunications operator, would launch an Avalanche Subnet as part of its Web3 Launchpad Program, it identified him as senior vice president of business development; he said the partnership would expand Avalanche's presence in the Middle East and North Africa. By April 2025 he was billed as Chief Business Officer for a keynote at Paris Blockchain Week. In the March 2026 Animoca Brands announcement, he said the collaboration supported Avalanche ecosystem expansion in Asia and the Middle East.

According to his speaker biography for the CfC St. Moritz conference, he was previously a founding team member at TokenVault, a digital assets platform, and before that worked for several years in international trade and trade finance and was a founding team member at the digital news site Mic. The same biography says he holds a master's degree in public diplomacy and dual degrees in communication and political science from the University of Southern California.

Nahas spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 as Chief Business Officer of Ava Labs, on the panel "The Tokenisation of Everything: RWAs, Institutions, and the Next Market Structure", held on the Hecto Main Stage on 3 June 2026, the summit's second day. He shared the session with Julien Clausse, Joseph Bruzzesi and Nenter Chow, and Yana Prikhodchenko moderated.

In his August 2026 interview with The Block, he contrasted what he called crypto's "narrative, short-term six-month cycles" with Avalanche's focus on real-world assets and applications, citing enterprise payments, government adoption, identity and World Cup ticketing. He credited Avalanche's ability to create jurisdiction-compliant custom Layer 1 blockchains as its edge over other public chains, and said that although token prices were down, he had "never seen more opportunities".