[mynameisvlad]

I mean, they basically said as much when they bought it. They didn't buy it for the product, they bought it for all the folks who bring a wealth of cryptography knowledge. This was also around the time that Zoom had a LOT of bad PR around privacy and spying on users, IIRC.

That said, Zoom is the reason the lights are still on, even if not a lot of work is being done on the product. Keybase never really had a solid marketable product to begin with, so I honestly don't see it going down another way. They seemed to be entirely set up to get acquired at some point, regardless who or what their plans were.