Sui blockchain (SUI)

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SUI is currently ranked #56 in coinmarketcap.com's list with a market cap just shy of $2 billion. I don't know much about SUI, but I saw this news this morning and it could be significant:

March 20: Mysten Labs, the company behind the Sui blockchain, claimed a "landmark achievement in scaling blockchain capacity" known as "linear scaling," according to the team: "During testing and development in a Sui blockchain environment, Pilotfish, a prototype Sui extension, increased throughput by 8x when backed by 8 machines, successfully illustrating the possibility of linear scaling. The latency per transaction decreased as more machines were added, proving the viability of linear horizontal scaling for low latency blockchain transactions for the first time ever on any blockchain." (SUI)


CMC says this about SUI:
What Is Sui (SUI)?

Sui is a groundbreaking layer-1 blockchain platform designed to support the needs of global adoption by offering a secure, powerful, and scalable development platform. At its core, Sui leverages a novel object-centric data model and the secure Move programming language to address inefficiencies prevalent in existing blockchain architectures.

On top of strong technical foundations, Sui prioritizes user experience by eliminating barriers commonly associated with blockchain interactions. Through innovations like zkLogin, sponsored transactions, and programmable transaction blocks, Sui creates a higher standard for user experience within Web3 by ensuring applications are accessible and user-friendly.

 
Seems to be a good bit of development happenig on SUI:
Sui Basecamp, the inaugural global conference for the Sui ecosystem opened its doors today in Paris, welcoming developers and entrepreneurs from around the world as they celebrate Paris Blockchain Week. A two-day event across two venues, Sui Basecamp features speakers across web2 and web3, spanning industry verticals from payments to gaming to ecommerce to major league sports. A celebration and exploration of the latest developments in web3, attendees are invited to presentations on cryptography from some of the world’s leading technologists, fireside chats on increasing market liquidity, and panels on real-world technological use cases.

Highlight announcements from the conference included:

  • Introducing the SuiPlay0x1 – a lightweight handheld gaming device designed in collaboration with Playtron. SuiPlay0x1 runs Playtron’s device-agnostic gaming operating system, which is building up compatibility with various hardware configurations, gaming storefronts and direct-download game partners. The SuiPlay is the first handheld gaming device with native web3 capabilities, and will be available in stores worldwide in 2025.
  • First Digital Labs is launching FDUSD, the fastest-growing stablecoin in crypto, on Sui, becoming the ecosystem’s first native stablecoin. Originally deployed on Ethereum and BNB, with plans to expand to other blockchains, Sui becomes the first blockchain FDUSD has expanded to since its inception. FDUSD launched in August 2023 and has already amassed a market cap of over $3.5 billion. Over the last week, FDUSD has seen the fifth-highest trading volume across the entire industry, including over $8 billion of volume in a single day.
  • Enoki – Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui, has announced the launch of the Enoki platform, the gateway to next-gen customer experiences. Inside the Enoki portal, enterprises can access, leverage and embed public ledger solutions inside their applications, products and services, thanks to SDKs powered by Sui’s native feature, zkLogin. Partners integrating Enoki at launch include:
  • Bluefin, a perpetual DEX with blazing-fast settlement and a seamless trading experience.
  • Drife, a decentralized ride-hailing platform powered by blockchain with the intent of empowering both, the drivers and commuters.
  • Quantum Temple, the digital platform for immersive cultural travel.

 
In early May last year, Sui's Mainnet made its public debut, actualizing the promise and proof points made by this next generation technology on Devnet and Testnet. As we reach Sui Mainnet's first anniversary, we look back on a year of growth and new, innovative features.

With its scalable architecture and performant consensus engine, Sui is built to handle massive traffic. And although we've seen peaks hitting over 5,000 transactions-per-second in its first year, the network has not yet reached its limit. By December of 2023 Sui hosted over nine million active accounts, and is well over 10 million now.

DeFi growth was absolutely extraordinary, with Total Value Locked rising from $100 million in early November last year to over $500 million in February.

Beyond metrics, Sui continues to see impressive development, with new features making it accessible and even more performant. zkLogin is an incredibly powerful tool builders leverage to onboard more users, while Pilotfish and Mysticeti promise to maintain Sui's performance edge.
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More (incl timeline of milestones):

 
Controversy percolating?
The Sui Network has clarified misunderstandings about its token supply. In a post on X, the layer-1 blockchain refuted criticism of the tokenomics around distribution and control of its S SUI token.

In the statement, Sui maintains that its tokenomics are sound and that it uses reputable third parties to handle token storage. It claims tokens are released according to a predetermined schedule, they are publicly accessible, and its founders cannot control the treasury or tokens allocated to investors, including the community reserve.

Sui said the Sui Foundation manages the primary wallet holding locked tokens, which are released under specific conditions. The token releases support various projects, including Move programming language development, network security enhancements, hackathons and developer grants.

Sui explained that staking rewards comprise stake derivatives and network commissions, all of which are returned to the community.

However, Justin Bons from Cyber Capital expressed concerns about the Sui team’s token holdings. Bons suggested that the founders may control a substantial portion of staked tokens, posing a centralization risk, and he called for greater transparency and accountability from Sui.

On the other hand, Sui disputes Bons’ claims, and it said it has disclosed that all tokens, whether distributed or not, are managed in compliance with legal and regulatory standards overseen by reputable custodial service providers like BitGo, Anchorage and Coinbase Prime.
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Twitter/X rabbit hole:
 
Sui, a blockchain network that targets scalability and low fees, overcame Solana in registered activity. According to Artemis, a blockchain statistics tool, Sui registered over 41 million transactions on April 3, leaving Solana behind with 27.7 million transactions completed during the same period.

The overheating in Sui’s usage is related to spam, a token used to stress test the capabilities and limits of the blockchain. 1 billion spam tokens are issued daily and will be distributed among the users sending transactions using Sui’s network. Spam rewards will be equivalent to the participation of each user in the test, with participants with more transactions issued getting more spam.
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Even after experiencing this rise in activity, the network operates normally, coping with the increase in transactions. In a controlled load test in July, the network managed to handle a load of over 60 million daily transactions, a number the upcoming spam token activity might surpass. Solana, managing a lower transaction number, has experienced limited operativity and has engineers expediting software patches to fix these issues.


Aside from the cheeky humor of running a test with "spam" tokens, it's a testament to SUI's tech that it can handle the much higher transaction volume than what caused Solana to choke (more than once).
 
This looks like it might be an interesting project:



Website:

I'm not sure what it's all about yet. I need to spend a bit more time reading about it.
 


SUI building up the infrastructure to compete against Solana...
 
I don't know if other blockchains like ETH or SOL have something similar or not, but this is actually a very important building block for programming lots of different applications:

 


How long until crypto powers 3D virtual porn?
 
SUI seems to have a lot of projects developing right now. This looks like a web3 competitor to youtube:

 
SUI is up ~120% since my last post here (a month ago). I think it will continue to run. There seems to be a lot of development activity happening in the SUI ecosystem.
 
Dreaming big:
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Dubai - The Sui blockchain has launched a hub in Dubai which will act as an incubator for blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, one of its founding developers told CoinDesk in an interview.

Kostas Chalkias, co-founder and chief cryptographer at Mysten Labs, which developed the Sui network, is originally from Greece and has moved to Dubai from California. He said his vision is to bring an army of solution engineers to Dubai.

"Like Leonidas, the Greek war hero, we are bringing an army of developers and if it is super successful in the very first month we will probably make it like Leonidas' 300," said Chalkias. ""Initially, we are bringing a small army but with big brains."

Chalkias painted a scenario where a government entity would want a blockchain based solution to a problem and instead of spending days to create the solution, this hub would have the capacity to build the solution as a smart contract more or less on the spot.

"When you're preaching an idea we will be able to sit down for two hours and build the proof of concept there. No other blockchain can do a POC on the spot. This hasn't happened before," Chalkias said.

The hub is in collaboration with Ghaf Group, a blockchain firm in the region.

The Dubai hub will be first in a global series of hubs, the entity announced. Dubai has been attracting the Web3 community with reasonably clear regulations and licensing processes which has seen crypto exchanges like Binance, Crypto.com and OKX win approvals this year.
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I missed this news last month, but just got a note from Coinbase that USDC is now available on the SUI blockchain (on Coinbase). That's big news for SUI as it impacts liquidity on the chain.

 


SUI looking good lately. While BTC gets headlines for all time highs, SUI has actually outperformed it lately...
 
SUI up 15% over the last 24 hours.
 
Ouchies:



SUI has been making big gains towards challenging Solana (SOL) and eventually Ethereum (ETH). One of the big knocks on SOL has been network stability. The SOL network has crashed several times during periods of heavy activity. This crash on the SUI network doesn't appear to be a stability issue (or related tot he volume of transactions), but it's definitely not a good look for a network that is selling itself as having superior stability.
 
Seems like the SUI network is running smoothly again...

 
SUI post mortem for the network outage:
On the morning of November 21, 2024, between approximately 1:15 and 3:45 am PT, Sui Mainnet suffered a complete network halt. All validators were stuck in a crash loop, preventing all transaction processing.
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The Sui network’s object-based architecture allows us to process many different user transactions massively in parallel, in a way that’s not possible on most other networks. However, if multiple transactions are all writing to the same shared object, they must execute in sequential order, and there is a limit to how many transactions we can process that touch that specific object.

Congestion control, the system that limits the rate of transactions writing to a single shared object, prevents the network from becoming overloaded with checkpoints that take too long to execute.

We recently upgraded our congestion control system to improve shared object utilization by more accurately estimating the complexity of a transaction. The code for the new mode, TotalGasBudgetWithCap, had a bug that caused this issue.

Once we identified the issue, the fix to the code was straightforward (PR #20365). This code fix was shipped to Mainnet in v1.37.4 and Testnet in v1.38.1. Thanks to an overwhelming response from our validators, it took only 15 minutes from the time the fix was released until the Sui network was back up and running.
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More:

It's actually pretty impressive speed on the deployment of the fix IMO.

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The Sui Foundation, the independent organization dedicated to the advancement and adoption of Sui, the innovative Layer 1 and smart contract platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton Digital Assets. Franklin Templeton Digital Assets has been investing in the Sui ecosystem, and believes this strategic partnership will provide further benefit toward that effort by seeking value creation opportunities to allow builders of Sui blockchain-based solutions to deploy novel technologies leveraging the Sui blockchain protocol.
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Phantom Wallet has expanded support to the Sui network as part of its move toward becoming a multichain wallet.

Phantom Wallet, initially known as a Solana-exclusive wallet, has now evolved into a multichain platform, expanding beyond Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon to now include Sui.
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SUI is up ~14% over the last 24 hours.

Edit: Looking back at the OP - SUI is now ranked 17th on CoinMarketCap's list with a market cap of $12.2 billion.
 
SUI has been dropping announcements on X almost daily now about partnerships and developments for their ecosystem:

https://x.com/SuiNetwork

Seems to be a lot of activity happening. The price (and market cap) for SUI has also been pretty resilient through the recent smash in the crypto sector. SUI is up 23% in the last 24 hours and is threatening to overtake Polkadot (DOT) for 15th place in CoinMarketCap's crypto list sorted by market cap.
 
SUI is on a tear over the last 24 hours or so - up ~20% to $5.20 and now at #12 on CoinMarketCap's list just behind Avalanche (AVAX).
 
SUI just passed Avalanche (AVAX) to claim 11th place in the market cap list. It's showing some strength while most of the crypto space is down moderately.
 
"2025: The Year Sui Goes Mainstream - Here’s All the Alpha You Need"

 
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