Mysten Labs names Kevin Boon CEO as Sui developer pivots toward AI
- —Boon joined Mysten Labs as chief legal officer in 2022 and became president in January 2025
- —Cheng remains CTO and will head a dedicated AI business unit
- —The unit will build AI-agent trust products around Sui and Walrus
- —In October Mysten and Google Cloud announced the Verifiable Agent Arbiter system
Why it matters: The leadership change and AI unit signal Sui is pushing beyond DeFi into infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, a potential new demand driver for the network.
Source: CoinGape
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