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Sam Blackshear

Sam Blackshear

Co-Founder and former CTO of Mysten Labs; researcher at Anthropic, Anthropic

Anthropic website

Bio

Sam Blackshear is a Co-Founder and former CTO of Mysten Labs, and the principal creator of the Move programming language. As of August 2026 he publicly announced he was leaving Mysten Labs to join Anthropic for defensive-security research.

Blackshear developed Move while working on Meta's Libra/Diem blockchain project, designing it as a resource-oriented, formally verifiable smart-contract language. He co-founded Mysten Labs in 2021 with Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, Kostas Chalkias and George Danezis. At Mysten Labs he served as CTO and was central to Sui's programming model, Move implementation and security architecture, contributing to the Move Prover and other formal-verification tooling.

His departure to Anthropic marks a significant transition for Mysten Labs. His co-founder status at Mysten Labs remains part of his professional record, and the Move language continues to be maintained by a broader community of engineers. Any ongoing advisory, board or code-contributor relationship between Blackshear and Mysten/Sui has not been independently confirmed as of August 2026 and is therefore omitted here.

Information last checked: August 2026

Profile at a glance

Status
Former

Work & Project Background

  • Mysten Labs

    Co-founder

Key Contributions

Created the Move Language

Designed Move at Meta's Libra/Diem project as a resource-oriented, formally verifiable smart-contract language. Move later became the foundation for both the Diem-lineage and Sui/Aptos ecosystems.

Co-Founded Mysten Labs

Co-founded Mysten Labs in 2021, bringing Move and distributed-systems expertise to build the Sui blockchain and associated infrastructure.

Sui Programming Model & Security

Was central to Sui's object-centric programming model, Move implementation and security architecture, including work on the Move Prover for formal verification.

Move Prover & Formal Verification

Contributed to the Move Prover, a formal-verification tool that allows developers to mathematically prove the correctness of smart-contract code — a significant advance in on-chain security tooling.

Transition to Defensive-Security Research

In August 2026 joined Anthropic to apply security expertise to AI defensive-security research, broadening the application of his cryptography and systems-security background.

Timeline

Pre-2021
Engineer at Meta working on the Libra/Diem blockchain project. Created the Move programming language as a safe, resource-oriented smart-contract language for the Diem ecosystem.
2021
Co-founded Mysten Labs with Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, Kostas Chalkias and George Danezis. Assumed CTO role.
2022–2023
Led technical architecture for Sui's programming model, Move implementation on Sui, and security tooling. Sui mainnet launched May 2023.
2024–2025
Continued as Mysten Labs CTO overseeing core protocol engineering and Move ecosystem development, including Walrus storage and Mysticeti consensus work.
August 2026
Publicly announced departure from Mysten Labs CTO role to join Anthropic for defensive-security research.

Recent Project Coverage

Bitnxt news coverage mentioning Anthropic.

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Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Slips to November. The Revenue Line Doesn't.

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Anthropic Researcher Resigns Over Super-Intelligence Race

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