Kostas Kryptos

Coin toss was just used to decide a mayoral election in Peru en.haberler.com/such-an-elec… Looking for something digital? SUI is the largest cryptocurrency by market cap with a native, decentralized randomness beacon built into its blockchain protocol. If you want fairness, use Sui.

Literally a year ago, I predicted that North Korean hackers leveraging AI would pose a far greater cybersecurity threat than quantum computing. coindesk.com/business/2025/1… Afaik we were the first after our BugDar (AI bug radar tool) in 2023 to officially announce the AI hack era will be unstoppable if we don’t invest in cybersecurity which until now it was overlooked by most orgs focusing on sales and growth only, risking their existence and solvency. Unfortunately, over the past month, we’ve seen that prediction becoming a reality. The new motto is simple: Hire the best cybersecurity experts, pay them generously, more than your average software engineer, or you’re 💀. The supply of highly skilled security professionals is already far below the threshold the world needs to defend against threats ahead. And with AI accelerating offensive capabilities, this talent shortage will only become more dangerous. hackers-are-redefining-crypto-crime rate and abilities. Software companies should transform, now. Deloitte, KPMG, EY, PwC and co it’s your responsibility to change that mentality, it’s becoming a liability these days, not only for software companies, but for fundamental gov infra too, these that sustain society and humanity. Everything gets digital now, food supply chain, electric cars, hospital tools, money.

Crazy thought: What if we fired all the ADD, XOR, AND gates from our CPUs and replaced them with AI calls? 😂 No traditional instructions. Just neural networks and inference doing the computing. An AI-native CPU. Sounds insane, but people are already experimenting with it. If you’re building one, CALL ME. Seriously. I don’t believe CPUs or GPUs will exist in 2 generations max, photonics and AI will conquer compute.

Personally connecting Sui with the AI community. I love it

I’m working on plug-n-play deterministic AI, and the doctors kindly allowed me to turn a hospital bathroom into a portable GPU data center. Probably the only semi-public bathroom where GPU fan noise guarantees complete privacy 🚽 😂

Ghostface masks 🎭 don’t help. There are far better ways to inspire people and move the decentralized space forward.

As far as I know, Mysten Labs is the only blockchain company that has consistently stayed one step ahead when it comes to security best practices. A few examples of what our cryptographers and security researchers have pioneered: - Native multisig without additional gas costs. We deliberately designed Sui to accommodate larger transaction sizes, making multisig a first-class security feature rather than an expensive add-on. Our cryptographers were among the first to productionize advanced multisignature techniques, even before Facebook’s Libra. - Cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness. From pioneering production-ready stateless post-quantum signatures to developing the first backward-compatible post-quantum solutions, our team has consistently pushed the boundaries. This includes enabling cryptographic upgrades and key rotation while preserving the same blockchain address (afaik the first crypto agility design in decentralized ledgers is attributed to my team). - Modern hardware wallet security. We’ve recently taken additional steps to incentivize startups to build the next generation of secure hardware wallets. With what we see in the market, this is one way. - AI-powered vulnerability detection. Sui was the first blockchain to introduce AI-driven bug detection through BugDar, back then presenting at Google’s Next conference. We knew AI would mess up security. - Recovering the seemingly unrecoverable. We created KelpMe, introducing innovative approaches to recovering assets after mnemonic loss or accidental transfers to incorrect addresses, problems traditionally considered practically impossible to solve. KelpMe also won the Bybit Hackathon, demonstrating the real-world potential of this innovation. - Zero-knowledge authentication as a first-class primitive. We went far beyond using ZK for privacy or scaling. With innovations such as zkLogin and ZEE-CAT, and for a while the most used ZK app in the planet, we demonstrated how zero-knowledge cryptography could fundamentally transform authentication. - Proofs of solvency and exchange accountability. Undeniably, we’re the leaders. Our cryptographers designed some of the most advanced proof-of-solvency protocols and identified critical weaknesses in approaches used by major exchanges and auditing firms. - World-class academic research at startup speed. Mysten Labs has systematically pushed the boundaries of academic research productivity, achieving publication records that are extraordinary for a startup. Our researchers reached an incredible milestone of 5 papers accepted at ACM CCS and 4 at Financial Cryptography (FC) in the same year, two of the world’s most prestigious venues in cybersecurity and applied cryptography. And so many best paper awards. - Binary transparency with Walrus sites and crypto guard. Reality is we should have pushed further making it the standard for any crypto website, but at the same time we indeed genuinely try to fix the internet. - Scion from our Swiss team, IMO the future of internet communication, kill DoS, native packet protection. That’s a phenomenal achievement even for established university research groups, let alone a startup simultaneously building and securing a major blockchain ecosystem. And these are just a few examples. When you consider the size of our team and the breadth of its contributions, even compared with the much larger Ethereum ecosystem, I genuinely believe Mysten Labs has been one of the most impactful organizations in blockchain cybersecurity, with innovations that are applied in the whole financial sector. What makes this particularly remarkable is that we didn’t just publish research or build theoretical solutions. We repeatedly turned cutting-edge cryptographic research into production systems, often years ahead of broader industry adoption. No other org ever came close to that. Now with the AI vision of Evan, Mysten will do more miracles 🤞

We need to change how computers and the internet work in the new AI era. I expect a completely new disruptive cycle both on infra & hardware and how we communicate. New startups, new regulations, new patterns.