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What Is Sui? 🤔
Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on accessibility, offering high-speed, low-cost transactions through parallel processing. It uses the Move programming language to manage user assets (Sui objects). 💨💎
With a focus on accessibility and parallel transaction technology, Sui is emerging as a major player in the growing Bitcoin DeFi (BTCFi) ecosystem. Since its May 2023 launch, it has become one of the largest Layer 1 blockchains, with a token price of $5.35 and a market cap of $15.9 billion in January 2025. Its growth has surpassed its Move competitor, Aptos, with nearly $2 billion in TVL versus Aptos’s $1.6 billion. 📈
Introduction to Sui 👋
Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for near-instant and low-cost transactions. This makes Sui suitable for applications ranging from decentralized finance to gaming, both of which require near-instant transaction finality. Sui is also designed for mass adoption by allowing users to create wallets with web credentials, instead of requiring them to manage private keys and seed phrases. 🔑➡️😊
Sui utilizes the Move programming language (originally developed for Meta’s Diem blockchain), which offers safer and more efficient programming. Sui’s enhancements to Move include moving from an account-based data model to an object-based one, which allows independent transactions to run in parallel, and subsequently enabling Sui to scale horizontally. ⚙️
The native token of Sui is SUI, which is used for gas fees and staking with validators. Sui operates on the DPOS (Delegated Proof of Stake) consensus mechanism, where SUI token holders stake their tokens with validators. Validators earn rewards, which are then shared with stakers as staking rewards. Tokens delegated to validators reflect their voting power. 🗳️
Sui has been audited by firms including Halborn and Zellic to identify any potential security issues and threats to user safety. 🛡️
Who Created Sui? 🤔
Sui is developed by Mysten Labs, which was founded by former Meta engineers who worked on the Diem blockchain and Move programming language including co-founder Sam Blackshear, who created Move. Other notable members of the team include Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, George Danezis, and Kostas Chalkias, all of whom previously worked at Facebook/Meta as well. 🧠
In September 2022, Mysten Labs raised $300 million from VCs including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase Ventures, and Circle. 💰
How the Sui Blockchain Works: Object Model, Parallelization and Mysticeti Consensus ⚙️
Now, let’s take a look at key components of Sui and how they contribute to the blockchain’s efficiency.
Sui’s Object Model 📦
Blockchains like Ethereum organize their data around accounts (addresses), where the network operates as a giant spreadsheet. However, Sui treats digital assets as real-world “objects,” where everything on Sui is an “object.” Crypto assets in your personal wallet are objects, each of which has their own unique ID so the network can tell them apart. 🆔
Object ownership on Sui include:
• 👤 Individual users: Tokens and NFTs owned by individuals can only be transacted by their respective owners.
• 🤝 Shared: Shared objects don’t have a single owner, and can be used and modified by multiple people according to specific rules programmed into the object.
• 🔒 Immutable: Immutable objects are created and permanently locked. These objects cannot be changed by anyone, like smart contracts or foundational rules.
• 🔗 Owned by another object: Objects can also be owned by other objects, like accessories attached to a game character object.
Sui’s efficiency stems from how transactions on Sui state which specific objects are involved. If your transaction only uses objects owned by you, Sui can process it extremely quickly. If multiple transactions use completely different objects, Sui can process them all at the same time (in parallel). Only transactions involving shared objects always need the full network consensus process. 🚦
How Sui Enables Parallel Transaction Execution ⚡
Sui identifies dependencies upfront through ownership, and can immediately recognize and execute the majority of simple, independent transactions in parallel. Simple transactions involve owned and immutable objects because they don’t conflict with others’ simple transactions. This allows them to be validated quickly and executed in parallel by the network validators. 🏎️
Mysticeti Consensus Protocol 🤝➡️⚡
Mysticeti is Sui’s consensus mechanism, created with the goal to significantly reduce the latency of transaction finalization on the Sui network. It aims for sub-second finality, while maintaining high throughput and efficiency. 🎯
Previously, Sui operated on the Narwhal and Bullshark consensus mechanism. Mysticeti changes this by removing the need for a leader. It checks the DAG to see if a block has a strong majority of validators that have previously linked back to that block. This single streamlined process improves:
• Speed: Transactions are confirmed faster; often in less than a second on Sui. 💨
• Efficiency: By eliminating extra communication rounds around consensus coordination. 👍
• No more leader bottleneck: Performance is more consistent. 💪
Sui Use Cases: Gaming, DeFi, and BTCFi 🎮💰🤝
Here are some primary use cases of Sui.
Gaming and GameFi 🕹️
Sui’s architecture works well for games due to its high throughput, low latency, and its ability to handle many operations in parallel. Its object model also works for in-game assets. ⚔️🛡️
Sui also supports in-game currencies and tokens, soulbound assets, dynamic assets, and Kiosk, which manages asset trading on Sui marketplaces. 🏪
Improving Accessibility for Web2 Gamers 🌐➡️🎮
• zkLogin: Sui’s zkLogin capability also allows users to sign in with social platforms. 😊
• Sponsored Transactions: Sui also allows applications to sponsor gas fees for users’ transactions. 🙌
DeFi: Efficiency, Speed, and Low Cost 🏦
Sui’s speed and low transaction costs are crucial for DeFi applications. Sui’s parallel execution also avoids bottlenecks during periods of high activity. 🚀
The Move programming language also helps prevent common vulnerabilities due to its resource-oriented nature and strong ownership rules. 🔒
DeepBook Native Liquidity Layer 🌊
DeepBook is a decentralized central limit order book (CLOB) built on Sui, which DeFi protocols can use as a liquidity source. According to Sui, DeFi activities leveraging DeepBook can achieve settlement in about 500 milliseconds with sub-second finality, while gas fees remain consistent and low. Users can also set limit orders. 🎯
BTCFi: Bringing Bitcoin to Sui ₿🤝💰
Less than 2% of BTC is active on DeFi. Sui is changing that with its focus on Bitcoin DeFi. Users can bridge wBTC to Sui and deploy their BTC across Sui’s DeFi protocols. According to Sui, 10% of Sui’s TVL consists of BTC assets. 📈
Sui is also becoming a Bitcoin Secured Network (BSN) through the Babylon protocol, inheriting Bitcoin security and liquidity. BTC holders can secure the Sui network without giving up custody of their bitcoin. 🚀₿
What Is the SUI Token and Its Tokenomics 🪙
SUI has a total supply of 10 billion tokens. As the native currency of the Sui network, SUI is used to pay for gas fees. SUI can also be staked with validators to earn staking rewards and for governance. 🗳️
A unique aspect of SUI’s tokenomics is its storage fund. Each on-chain transaction that adds data to the chain includes a fee for storage. The protocol then regularly distributes these storage fund rewards to Sui validators to pay for storage. 💾
Originally, upon the launch of the Sui Mainnet, there was a one-year cliff period for vested SUI tokens. However, this period ended in May 2024. 🔓
Key Takeaways:
• 🚀 High-Speed & Low-Cost: Sui offers its users high-speed, low-cost, and near-instant finality using parallel processing.
• 🎮 Ideal for Demanding Applications: Its performance is ideal for DeFi and gaming, with a growing focus on BTCFi. 💰
• 🛠️ Layer 1 Developed by Mysten Labs: A team with experience working on Meta’s Diem and Move language projects.
• 🤝 Focused on Accessibility: Features like zkLogin (using social IDs for wallets) and sponsored transactions lower the barrier for user adoption.
• 🪙 Sui’s Native Token is SUI: Used for gas fees, staking, and governance.
