Today I suddenly thought of a question, why are Aptos and Sui both Move language public chains, but their popularity and activity can differ so much?

Both are from the team behind Meta, formerly Facebook's Diem project, but today I see that the daily active addresses and TX differ by several times, Gas Fee and protocol revenue differ by hundreds of times, let's take a shallow look.

🤔 Sui chose a more popular track that can attract traffic.

To some extent, Aptos's technology may be more stable, closer to the modularity and ultimate security of native Move, leaning more towards financial infrastructure, aiming for "high net worth, serious applications".

Sui significantly modified Move to enhance concurrency efficiency and scalability, emphasizing extremely low Gas, high speed, and high concurrency, suitable for large-scale applications like gaming, social, and payments.

Aptos feels more like a cold tech giant's experimental field, while Sui is a bustling playground in the streets.

🤔 Sui understands the survival rule in crypto that "where there is sugar, there is traffic".

The Sui operating team has unofficially allowed + platform subsidy funds, with a series of token airdrops, ecological incentives, developer subsidies, and node rewards.

So you can see that the growth on Sui can quickly ignite TVL and active wallet numbers, @DeepBookonSui @WalrusProtocol are basically all significant players.

Aptos is relatively conservative, with stingy airdrops, and good projects like @ThalaLabs @PontemNetwork can't garner widespread user attention, with slow ecological expansion, and many projects have left.

In simple terms, Aptos is a tech nerd, while Sui is an operations expert.

Although Aptos has a16z and FTX behind it, after the FTX collapse, Aptos's capital halo has been significantly diminished.

Sui's capital is also quite luxurious with a16z, Jump, Circle, etc., but Sui quickly followed up in the Asian market, especially Southeast Asia and Korea, moving very quickly.

Come on, do you still not understand where these guys who are just trading coins are?

Aptos hasn't completely lost; it's just that Sui is currently in the lead, both waiting for an impressive grand narrative～

In the crypto world, being lively comes first, slow work follows, and winning in popularity is the first mover advantage.