Tagged: mysten labs

August 9, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Blackshear, co-founder and chief technology officer of Mysten Labs, the team behind the Sui blockchain, has announced his departure from the company to take on a new role at Anthropic focused on defensive security research. In a series of posts on social media platform… Read More

February 13, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, once positioned himself as a visionary in the crypto and tech worlds. Before his empire crumbled amid allegations of massive fraud, SBF made several shrewd early investments that have since exploded in worth. These… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mysten Labs, a Web3 infrastructure company and initial developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. Under the terms of the MOU, Alibaba Cloud will aim… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mysten Labs, a web3 infrastructure company and developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, announced the initial close of its $300 million Series B funding round. This new capital “values the company at more than $2 billion.” The company intends “to use the proceeds from… Read More