
Before Sui, Adeniyi Abiodun wrote software for oil wells, banks and Bitcoin miners. The Mysten Labs co-founder has spent the years since Meta’s abandoned Libra project trying to make moving value online feel ordinary.

He helped make software run on billions of devices, then left Meta at 50 to build another foundation. The Mysten Labs CEO is still chasing a stubborn question: who gets to control what people create online?

He built Move to give digital assets the rules that physical objects already have. After taking that idea from Meta to Sui, the engineer has turned back toward the problem that started his career: finding flaws before anyone can use them.

A circuit-design class sent a Honolulu student toward supercomputing. Two decades later, the systems engineer behind Facebook data infrastructure and Diem is running Aptos Labs - and arguing that the next useful blockchain will look less like a coin and more like a market.