Sam Blackshear is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Mysten Labs, where he serves as CTO, and created the Move programming language for digital assets. Sam Blackshear's Twitter Score is 178 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,825 (top 1%) among 493,263 tracked accounts.
Sam Blackshear co-founded Mysten Labs and leads its technical direction as CTO, with his work centered on Sui and Walrus. He previously worked at Meta, where he focused on developer tooling. His research output spans the foundations of Move and the Sui protocol: he authored the paper "Resources: A Safe Language Abstraction for Money," which presents resource abstractions in Move for digital currency and smart contracts, and "The Move Borrow Checker," which describes Move as a language for programming digital assets. He also co-authored "Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus," which describes the protocol underpinning the Sui smart-contract platform.
Sam Blackshear has published 2,122 posts on the platform and has 23,618 followers as of October 2026. He has been mentioned by 129 accounts, with 344 total mentions.
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