#453: Kevin Boon, President of Mysten Labs, on SUI, Walrus, Programmatic Storage, and Co-Creating with Brands

Kevin was recently appointed President of Mysten Labs and formerly served as the company's Chief Legal Officer. As President, Kevin oversees key aspects of the company’s strategy and operations alongside CEO Evan Cheng, ensuring the company continues to lead the way in driving innovation and growth within the Web3 ecosystem. Kevin has a plethora of experience as a dynamic leader and product-oriented technology attorney, having previously served as general counsel at Picsart, and led the product, regulatory, commercial, and international legal teams at Block. Prior to that, he was lead counsel for multiple retail teams and subsidiaries of Amazon, and was also a transactional associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He holds a J.D. from Fordham Law and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Co-creating with other brands = Sui’s secret sauce
- Programmatic storage
- Building decentralized experiences for devs 
- Scaling support for builders across gaming, AI, and storage
- Mysten Labs' role in shaping sustainable crypto regulation 
- Robinhood tokenizing stocks 
- Sui’s object-based model  
- Current thesis on Layer 1s 
- Plans for 2025 and beyond

Mysten Labs
Website: mystenlabs.com
X: @Mysten_Labs
Discord: discord.gg/mysten

Sui Network
Website: sui.io
X: @SuiNetwork
Discord: discord.gg/sui

Kevin Boon
X: @KevinBoon_ML
LinkedIn: Kevin Boon

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