Hey Celo, community. I’m Evan, CEO of Mysten Labs. We are excited to be working with the awesome Celo team to push the boundary of blockchain technology forward. More specifically, here are the three directions we are pursuing:
Augment Celo’s PoS BFT consensus with an advanced mempool to boost throughput. This will lower transaction fees and enable new use cases for the Celo blockchain.
Enhance Celo’s mobile-first wallet with technology for recovering the wallet’s private keys, even if the phone is lost or stolen. This removes a major barrier to safe self-custody.
Provide support for the Move virtual machine alongside Celo’s existing EVM-based execution. This will allow Celo developers to benefit from the safety of Move while interacting seamlessly with existing Celo smart contracts.
Now the fun part. I heard it’s customary for new members of the community to introduce themselves with share some facts about themselves. Here are three facts about me. Can you guess which is a lie?
I never finished high school
I was the only member of Novi Research who didn’t have a PhD
I am an extreme introvert according to Myers & Briggs test
Welcome Evan! Super excited to be working with you and the entire Mysten team! Let’s make Celo an even better platform for mobile DeFi than it is today!
Since I dropped out to start a startup in my final year of my PhD at MIT, I can relate to #2 and will guess that this is the lie
Hello Evan and Mysten team! I’m excited to see such an ambitious roadmap for things your team will bring to Celo! Can’t wait to share this with our community of developers around the world!
Welcome Evan!! So happy to have you and the team as part of the community, and really excited about all three initiatives. And I vote that #1 is a lie!
BIG welcome, Evan! I’m going with #1, seems highly probably that you just graduated early from high schools and then headed onto your bachelor’s degree.
Welcome, Evan!! Thanks for helping Celo run even faster! My name is Mengfan and I am leading Celo’s APAC Marcom. Representing our APAC community to welcome you to the ecosystem!
And, same. I’m going with #3. As an “extrovert” who doesn’t score as such on any meyers briggs survey, i’m here to say that sometimes you can’t judge a book by its cover;-)
A huge welcome @evan, it’s super exciting to have you on board! Heavily free riding on the logical analysis of folks above me, I am going with #2 as the lie.