Author: David, Shenchao TechFlow

On August 5, Sam Blackshear posted on X that he is leaving Mysten Labs to join Anthropic, where he will work on defensive security research related to AI.

His name may not be familiar to many, but you’ve likely heard of what he created. He developed Move, the underlying programming language for the Sui blockchain.

Around 2018, while he was at Meta, when Zuckerberg was developing the Libra stablecoin project, Blackshear was a core member of the team and designed a new programming language specifically for this project, called Move.

Libra was later renamed Diem, and subsequently, the entire stablecoin project was halted by regulators. However, the Move language survived.

In September 2021, Blackshear left…