On April 18th at 9:30am Pacific time, Office Hours will host Evan Cheng, founder & CEO of Mysten Labs, creator of SUI.

Evan & the Mysten team were instrumental in the creation of Meta’s high-performance blockchain techology before leaving to start Mysten.

There are few key ideas Mysten espouses about blockchains that have led to dramatic improvements in performance & usability.

First, the Move language & virtual machine form the basis of the smart contract layer.

Second, the use of DAGs (directed-acyclic graphs - a concept very common in the core data world) creates tremendous efficiencies with parallelization of work.

Mysten’s token, SUI is worth $16b as of this writing & users have locked more than $600m of value within the ecosystem so far, up 3x this year alone.

During this Office Hours, Evan & I will talk about :

• the insights from Meta that led to the creation of Mysten Labs
• the use of DAGs in blockchains & how they drive increased performance
• the importance of performance to developers within web3 & how that ties to attracting web2 developers

If you’re interested to attend, please register here. As always, submit questions through the registration form & I’ll weave them into the conversation.

I look forward to welcoming Evan to Office Hours!