Just saw that Plume Network lost their co-founder and CTO Eugene Shen this week. The team posted about it today and honestly it's pretty heavy. Eugene Shen had worked at Robinhood and dydx before joining Plume last year, and apparently his direct supervisor at Robinhood had nothing but great things to say about him—called him one of the core members of their crypto engineering team.

The Plume team's statement talks about how Eugene was really passionate about what he was building, how he poured himself into the project and the community. They're saying they'll continue the work he started with the platform. A bunch of projects that worked with Plume left condolences in the comments.

Eugene Shen graduated from UBC with a degree in Engineering Physics, so the dude clearly had serious technical chops. It's wild how someone can make such an impact in such a short time—he only joined Plume in January 2024. RIP to him and thoughts to his family and the whole team right now.