Vocal Ethereum researcher Max Resnick jumps ship to join Solana

Blockchain researcher Max Resnick has just jumped ship from Ethereum infrastructure firm Consensys to Solana research and development firm Anza after increasingly opposing key aspects of Ethereum’s roadmap in recent months.

“I’m taking my talents to Solana,” Resnick said in a Dec. 9 X post after revealing he started his first day at Anza on Dec. 9.

Resnick, who worked as head of research at Consensys subsidiary Special Mechanisms Group since February 2023, was critical of Ethereum’s scaling strategy.

For the first 100 days at Anza, Resnick said he will spend his time writing out a technical specification focused on Solana’s fee markets and consensus implementations — two areas where he believes he can have the “highest impact.”