The UC Berkeley professor and blockchain pioneer leaves a trail of questions for ROSE token holders as she pivots to AI safety at Meta
Dawn Song, the UC Berkeley professor who founded privacy-focused blockchain Oasis, has taken a new job as Vice President of AI Research at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. Song announced the move on June 25, shifting her focus from decentralized privacy infrastructure to making sure Meta’s AI models don’t go sideways. Her mandate at MSL centers on AI safety and security for systems that serve billions of users globally.
From blockchain to big tech #
Song’s career reads like a tour through every major tech anxiety of the last decade. She ran the UC Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, launched Oasis Labs to build privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure, and co-founded Virtue AI in 2024 to tackle responsible AI development.
Several core team members from Virtue AI have reportedly followed Song to Meta MSL, suggesting this wasn’t a casual recruitment but a deliberate talent acquisition.
What this means for Oasis and ROSE #
The ROSE token that once peaked at $0.596 now trades at roughly $0.006. That’s a 99% decline from its all-time high.
Oasis Labs raised $45 million back in 2018 from heavyweight investors including a16z Crypto and Binance Labs. No significant price movement in ROSE followed the announcement of Song’s departure.
Why investors should pay attention #
The more interesting story here isn’t about one token. It’s about the gravitational pull that AI labs are now exerting on crypto’s best technical minds. The skills overlap is real: cryptographic verification, secure computation, adversarial robustness, and privacy-preserving architectures are all relevant to the challenge of building AI systems you can actually trust.
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