Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the bottom up to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. Its object-centric model, based on the Move programming language, enables parallel execution, sub-second finality, and rich on-chain assets. With horizontally scalable processing and storage, Sui supports a wide range of applications with unrivaled speed at low cost. Sui is a step-function advancement in blockchain and a platform on which creators and developers can build amazing, user-friendly experiences.

Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui, was founded by by former executives/lead architects of Meta’s Novi Research (the team responsible for Diem blockchain and Move programming language): Evan Cheng; Adeniyi Abiodun; Sam Blackshear; George Danezis; Kostas Chalkias.

Through features such as horizontal scaling, composability, sparse replay, and on-chain storage, Sui’s architecture solves pain points common to first generation blockchains.

Horizontal Scaling

On the Sui network, each group of transactions process in parallel, as opposed to the bottlenecking that occurs in some earlier blockchains due to any lack of distinction between the various objects, resources, accounts, and other components.

Composability

In Sui, unlike most other blockchains, one can directly pass an asset (such as an NFT), directly into a function argument. Sui’s object-centric approach also allows for more esoteric data structures, and the ability to store assets inside such data structures, or in an asset itself.

Sparse Replay

Naturally, a blockchain provides a ledger of every single transaction. For a Sui-specific example, game builders don’t need to track transactions interacting with unrelated dApps. Because querying on-chain data can be expensive, products on Sui will be able to follow the evolution of the objects in this game, without digging out the data from the Merkle tree.

On-Chain Storage

Because assets are directly stored as objects on the Sui blockchain, they are never subject to Merkle tree indexing. Storing assets directly on-chain is used in tandem with conventional means, such as IPFS, to scale the problem of on-chain storage, as it is much cheaper to directly update assets on-chain.

Sui is yet to release details about its native SUI token, which is to go live upon the mainnetlaunch. It will be used for gas fees and to pay for the storage fund. This fund compensates future validators for the costs of previously stored on-chain data. With this upfront-payment model, higher rewards are paid out to validators when the demand for storage is high.

At launch, Tusk and Narwhal were the default consensus algorithms used by Sui, although Bullshark replaced Tusk as the primary option in August 2022. The move was made to reduce latency issues, and to ensure that validators with lower processing speeds would still be able to contribute to the project. Tusk can still be used via updating the source, however. In short, Narwhal is used as a mempool to ensure that the data submitted to the consensus is available, and Bullshark (or Tusk) then sets the standard for arranging that data so the consensus engine can read it. This is part of the directed acyclic graph (DAG) mempool, which is yet another innovation Sui offers. Coupled with its innovative scaling solution, it will presumably allow the blockchain to reach transaction speeds of over 297,000 transactions per second.

Sui Mainnet will launch on May 3, 2023.

The all-time high of SUI was 1.72 USD on 2023-05-03, from which the coin is now down 5.232558139534889%. The all-time high price of Sui (SUI) is 1.72. The current price of SUI is down 5.232558139534889% from its all-time high.

As of , there is currently 3.74Bn SUI in circulation. SUI has a maximum supply of 10.00Bn.

The current market cap of SUI is 6.11Bn. It is calculated by multiplying the current supply of SUI by its real-time market price of 1.63.

The all-time low of SUI was 0.55799785 , from which the coin is now up 192.11582087637075%. The all-time low price of Sui (SUI) is 0.55799785. The current price of SUI is up 192.11582087637075% from its all-time low.

Sui (SUI) has a market capitalization of $6.11Bn and is ranked #30 on CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency market can be highly volatile, so be sure to do your own research (DYOR) and assess your risk tolerance. Additionally, analyze Sui (SUI) price trends and patterns to find the best time to purchase SUI.