{"id":1074,"date":"2026-08-06T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/?btc_ct_news=mysten-labs-tech-chief-joins-anthropic-to-work-on-ai-security"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:10:29","slug":"mysten-labs-tech-chief-joins-anthropic-to-work-on-ai-security","status":"publish","type":"btc_ct_news","link":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/?btc_ct_news=mysten-labs-tech-chief-joins-anthropic-to-work-on-ai-security","title":{"rendered":"Mysten Labs tech chief joins Anthropic to work on AI security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Blackshear, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Mysten Labs, has announced<\/a> he will be stepping down to join Anthropic to work on defensive security research.<\/p>\n

Blackshear, along with four former Meta executives, founded Mysten Labs \u2014 the creator of the Sui blockchain \u2014 in September 2021. Blackshear said Mysten Labs co-founder and CEO Evan Cheng will step in to set the \u201ctechnical vision\u201d for Mysten going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I reflect on my career, I have been happiest doing hands-on technical work while exploring new problem domains,\u201d said Blackshear. \u201cThis is an opportunity to do both, and I\u2019m motivated to work on security at a time when the balance of power between attackers and defenders is shifting.\u201d<\/p>\n

His departure comes as AI is increasingly being used to identify software vulnerabilities, automate phishing campaigns and accelerate attacks on blockchain infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AI arms race is \u201cgetting scary:\u201d Blackshear<\/h2>\n

In April, Blackshear hosted a panel with security experts about how AI coding agents are reshaping smart contract security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said for him, a turning point that led him to realize that something had fundamentally changed was when he ported a static analysis tool he built at Facebook written in OCaml-Java over to Move, the programming language used to build smart contracts on Sui.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sam said he used Claude to make the move and flag any potential vulnerabilities, and \u201cit just did it,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then when I saw the results, I was like, \u2018whoa,\u2019 this is a new world that we\u2019re in terms of like the speed and the capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe triage results was completely manual before, and the coding would have taken a long, long time,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong><\/em>Bitcoin Red Team reports 5K findings in sweeping security audit<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Crypto firms seeking frontier AI access<\/h2>\n

Many of crypto\u2019s biggest players have been seeking access<\/a> to powerful new AI models to strengthen their code from attacks, with many of these models, including those at Anthropic, restricted to only a small group of companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crypto executives speaking to Cointelegraph agreed that while restricting these frontier models initially makes sense, it no longer does once competing, publicly available AI models hit the same level of cybersecurity capability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI fully understand guardrails for advanced models, but we need to streamline the verification programs, the acceptance programs, to give these models to legitimate defenders,\u201d said Solana Foundation chief information security officer Michael Coates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make sure that the best models we can get are in the hands of defenders because attackers will have something capable enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magazine: <\/strong>The real reason DeFi projects that survived 2022 crash are shutting down now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: Cointelegraph<\/a> \/ Felix Ng<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysten Labs\u2019 co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and defenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1075,"template":"","btc_ct_section":[6],"class_list":["post-1074","btc_ct_news","type-btc_ct_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","btc_ct_section-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/btc_ct_news\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/btc_ct_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/btc_ct_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"btc_ct_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbtc_ct_section&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}