
The privacy researcher helped design anonymous networks, then followed the problem of trust into blockchains. At Mysten Labs, his question is still practical: what happens when real people use the system?

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.

An Amstrad in a Greek village led Kostas Chalkias toward the mathematics of trust. Now the Mysten Labs co-founder is asking what cryptography must protect when software starts acting on our behalf.

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.