Sui Project Overview

Sui Network was launched by Mysten Labs in 2021 as a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain platform, initially developed by members of the Meta team. The word “Sui” comes from the water element in Japanese philosophy, symbolizing the fluidity of Sui’s power, enabling it to adapt and change in any environment. Similarly, the Sui platform seeks to provide a flexible network and utilize it to shape a new landscape for the Web3 world.

Sui’s native token Sui Coin, as the core asset of the network, is mainly used for paying transaction fees, participating in staking, empowering governance voting, and other key functions. Technically, Sui adopts an object-centered data model and supports parallel transaction processing, greatly improving the system’s throughput and execution efficiency. Its ecosystem covers a wide range of areas including decentralized exchanges, lending platforms, games, NFT projects, etc.

With innovative architecture design and optimized trading processing mechanism, Sui is committed to providing developers and users with high-performance, low-cost blockchain infrastructure, promoting the diversified development of decentralized applications, and further promoting the prosperity of decentralized network ecology.

Sui Network project logo (Image Source:https://pixelplex.io/blog/what-is-sui-blockchain/)

Project link:

Official Website Entrance:https://sui.io/

White Paper:https://docs.sui.io/

X (Twitter):https://x.com/SuiNetwork

Discord:https://discord.com/invite/sui

Github:https://github.com/MystenLabs

Medium:https://medium.com/sui-network-cn

Suiscan:https://suiscan.xyz/mainnet

Trading Entrance:https://www.gate.io/en/trade/SUI_USDT

Sui main features

1. Parallel trading execution

Sui adopts the Byzantine Broadcast mechanism, which allows it to bypass the traditional blockchain’s dependence on global consensus and support the parallel execution of a large number of unrelated transactions. Compared to the traditional on-chain batch transaction processing, Sui independently verifies each transaction, generates a final deterministic certificate after successful execution, ensures the irreversibility of transactions, improves network throughput, and significantly reduces transaction latency.

2. Efficient Move Language

Sui uses the Move programming language designed specifically for blockchain to reduce code redundancy for developers and lower the error rate of smart contracts, making DApp development more intuitive and secure. In addition, Sui’s architecture supports composable objects and dynamic NFTs, allowing developers to create upgradeable, groupable on-chain assets, providing greater flexibility for complex chain gaming economies and decentralized applications.

3. Unique Security Mechanism

Unlike many blockchains that rely on strong synchronous assumptions, Sui has a stronger ability to resist risks. Even in adverse conditions such as network splitting or distributed denial-of-service attacks, it can still maintain network security, ensure the stability and finality of transactions, and provide users with a more reliable blockchain environment.

Evolution of Sui Move language model (Image source: https://sui.io/move)

$SUI Token Economics

The total supply cap of SUI tokens is 10 billion, ensuring long-term inflation controllability. At the launch of the mainnet, some SUI tokens have been unlocked and put into circulation, while the remaining tokens will gradually enter the market according to the preset release plan to prevent severe inflation or short-term supply shocks. In addition, each SUI token can be further subdivided into smaller units to meet different trading needs, thereby increasing liquidity.

Sui adopts a community-oriented token distribution mechanism to ensure the decentralization of network governance. The specific distribution plan is as follows:

1. Community Reserve (50%): The community reserve fund accounts for the largest share, mainly used for delegation staking, ecological incentives, research and development, validator subsidies, etc.
2. Early contributors (20%): Allocated to Sui’s early builders to reward their contributions to the network infrastructure.
3. Investors (14%): Used for early financing to support the development of the Sui project and establish long-term cooperation with strategic investors.
4. Mysten Labs (10%): Mysten Labs holds a portion of SUI in the form of a national treasury to support the continued innovation of the protocol.
5. Community Access Plan (6%): Encouraging broader community participation to drive user growth in the Sui ecosystem through incentive programs.

Sui token distribution model (Image source: https://martianwallet.xyz/blog/understanding-sui)

$SUI Market Performance

From February 22 to March 22, the $SUI price showed an overall trend of fluctuating downward, falling from a high of $3.37 to $2.29, a 32% decrease within the month, indicating significant selling pressure in the market and limited support from the bulls.

Since March, the price of $SUI has fluctuated between $2.7 and $2.96, but has not been able to stay above the $3 mark. After March 6th, the price of $SUI continued to decline, dropping to $2.18 on March 12th, marking the lowest point of the month. From March 16th to 20th, the price of $SUI experienced a moderate rebound, but on March 21st, the price fell again to $2.29. The market lacks a clear direction, and buying pressure remains weak.

As of 0:00 on March 25 (UTC+0) when this article was written, the latest price of $SUI is $2.3921, with a total circulation market value of $239.1 billion. In the short term, $SUI has support in the $2.2 - $2.4 range. If market sentiment improves, it may build a short-term bottom here; in the medium to long term, it is necessary to observe the flow of market funds and ecological progress. If Sui can introduce more innovative applications, it may provide new momentum for the price.

02/24 - 03/24 period $SUI trend (Source:Sui Explorer - Suiscan)

$SUI Risk Warning

Currently, over 84% of the staking supply is controlled by the founding team, leading to a high degree of centralization in the governance and supply of SUI. The decentralization is questionable, and some staked SUI tokens do not have a strict lock-up period, meaning the founding team can release or sell the tokens at any time. If the team or institutional investors choose to sell off in a concentrated manner, it may cause a significant short-term liquidity downturn in the market, resulting in drastic price fluctuations. It is recommended that investors, when evaluating $SUI assets, should fully consider this factor to avoid being influenced by market manipulation and to implement proper fund management and risk hedging strategies.

Conclusion

As an innovative Layer 1 blockchain, Sui demonstrates strong competitiveness in the Web3 track with parallel transaction execution, efficient smart contract language, and a rich ecological layout. On the other hand, the high centralization of the $SUI token and the lack of clear lock-up rules are also risk points that need to be closely monitored. Investors should rationally evaluate Sui’s technical potential and economic model, and make cautious decisions combined with market trends. In the future, if Sui can continuously optimize the token governance mechanism and introduce more practical applications, its ecological growth space is still worth paying attention to.