Kevin Boon Succeeds Evan Cheng as Mysten Labs CEO
The brand new AI unit may have its personal engineering, product growth and different capabilities to scale back dependencies, Cheng wrote. It would comply with the mannequin of Mysten’s onchain finance enterprise unit, established over the summer time, and give attention to agent-trust merchandise and AI-native infrastructure.
Cheng framed the handover as a solution to unencumber time for technical management whereas persevering with to help the Sui and Walrus ecosystem. “This makes my scope extra manageable,” he wrote within the letter.
AI Plans Construct on Sui and Walrus
The goal of the AI effort is to let brokers perform duties autonomously whereas staying inside limits set by their customers, Cheng wrote. He stated the services could be anchored to Sui and Walrus.
Walrus is Mysten’s decentralized storage protocol. It launched its mainnet in March 2025, as The Defiant beforehand reported.
One challenge Cheng highlighted is Verifiable Agent Arbiter, which Mysten introduced on Oct. 6 as an proof layer being co-developed with Google Cloud. It’s designed to let companies show their AI brokers acted inside the authority they have been granted.
Below the deliberate design, detailed agent information keep in customer-controlled Google Cloud Storage, whereas cryptographic proofs are saved on Walrus and coordinated on Sui. Mysten stated preliminary enterprise deployments are deliberate earlier than broader availability.
