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Within a span of weeks in early 2026, a cluster of senior crypto operators announced they were stepping back or switching domains.
Akshay BD, who spent five years building Solana’s ecosystem, posted a “life update” saying he was “grateful to pass the torch.”
Anthony Rose, a zkSync executive, announced he was “moving on” after four years at Matter Labs.
Nader Dabit left Eigen Labs to join Cognition, working on “end-to-end software agents that ship production code.”
from the playing field,…
