Source: LD Capital
In June 2019, Facebook (now Meta) announced plans to build a permissioned blockchain and a digital wallet , used to support the global payment network, and for this purpose the Libra Association (later renamed Diem) was established to be responsible for building the blockchain, and the subsidiary Calibra (later renamed Novi Finance) was responsible for developing digital wallets. However, neither project was fully realized in the end, and Diem and Novi were terminated in 2022. Later, two independent blockchains were born based on the research of Diem and Novi: Aptos and Sui. Aptos inherited the legacy of Diem and iterated on the technology developed by the project, while Mysten Labs created a new Sui.
Sui is a new public chain, the first Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the bottom up, aiming to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone . The name Sui is inspired by the water element in Japanese philosophy. The power of water comes from its fluidity - its ability to easily adapt and change any environment.
(1) Strong scalability, fast speed, and the possibility of large-scale Web3 implementation:
Sui Move programming language: Under the design of today's mainstream Solidity language, an asset is a numerical value, and asset transfer is completed by adding or subtracting from the wallet, rather than the actual movement of the asset. Move treats assets as a resource and stores it in a module. This module is similar to a smart contract, in which resources cannot be copied or deleted, but can only be moved and stored. The resources are transparent in the contract, but cannot be called outside the contract. is opaque. Simply put, Move separates assets and changes ownership by moving them, which is where the name Move comes from.
Sui has made new improvements on the basis of Move to form the Sui Move language. The main differences lie in the object-centered global storage, the address representing the object ID, and the object having a globally unique ID, etc., forming the Sui Move language. The underlying foundation for other technological innovations.
(2) Object-centric data model:
On Sui, assets are type objects, and all objects have the characteristics of stable, globally unique IDs. Each Objects can all be transferred to other objects without interacting with the smart contract, or even interact with different smart contracts running on your asset. In Sui, all transactions take objects as input and generate new or modified objects as output. By observing all active objects, the global state can be determined.
Objects are mutable assets, objects can own other objects, and developers can change, combine, and create hierarchies, which makes Sui highly composable. Asset composability is crucial to scalability. For example, in the game you have assets such as stone, wood, cement, etc., and the contract allows these assets to be combined into houses. Most blockchain data models poorly model asset ownership. They are restrictive, making it difficult for stateful (e.g. games, social) applications to use them. Sui's object-centric data model solves these usability and programmability issues.
(3) Dual consensus mechanism:
Sui’s system design breakthrough eliminates a key bottleneck in many blockchains: the need to reach global consensus on a total ordered transaction list. Given that many transactions do not compete for the same resources as other transactions, this calculation is wasteful. Sui achieves a breakthrough in scalability by enabling parallel protocols on causally independent transactions and dividing transactions into two types: complex transactions and simple transactions.
Complex transactions: Complex transactions involving shared objects are ordered and agreed upon via Sui’s Narwhal and Bullshark protocols. The Narwhal memory pool maintains the availability of submitted transaction data and provides a structured path in the form of a directed acyclic graph to traverse (select in order) this data. Bullshark consensus chooses a specific order for this structured data by agreeing on a specific directed acyclic graph traversal (based on the ordering of the DAG structure).
Complex transactions need to go through five steps before reaching final confirmation.
1. Transactions are broadcast to nodes from respective users/clients.
2. After receiving the message, the validator node votes on the validity of the message according to their equity scale.
3. After the user/client collects the Byzantine-resistant majority vote, it generates a record certificate and broadcasts the certificate back to the verifier.
4. Transaction certificates are sorted through Narwhal and Bullshark so that a Byzantine-resistant majority of validators can agree on the ordering of transaction data.
5. The validator makes a final response, and the user collects an "impact" certificate, which is proof of the state change and ensures the finality of the transaction.
Simple transactions: Simple transactions involving only non-shared objects do not need to be sorted through Narwhal and Bullshark. In other words, simple transactions can skip step 4 in the above transaction processing flow. Simple transactions are only subject to the lightweight algorithm of Byzantine Consensus Broadcast, which is less intensive and more scalable than Byzantine Consensus. Broadcasting ensures that all nodes receive the same message from the user/client; it does not require nodes to agree on the network state. Therefore, if multiple transactions are not related to each other (do not involve the same object), then these transactions can be processed in parallel in any order, and all simple transactions bypass the complex consensus.
Sui’s team has rich industry experience and strong technical strength. Evan Cheng is the co-founder and CEO of Sui/Mysten Labs and was a former Novi Financial R&D Director. He has 10 years of development experience at Apple, and then worked at Facebook and Novi Financial for 2-3 years respectively. He founded Mysten Labs in September 2021.
Sam Blackshear is the co-founder and CTO of Sui/Mysten Labs. He was the chief engineer of Novi Financial. He has 6 years of working experience in Meta’s Libra/Diem and was deeply involved in the creation of the MOVE language.
Sui has an excellent investment background. In 2021-12-06, it raised US$36 million in Series A financing from star investment institutions including A16Z, Coinbase Ventures, etc. On 2022-09-08, US$300 million was raised in Series B financing, with investment institutions including Jump Crypto, Binance Labs, Circle Ventures, etc.
Sui's is one of the fastest growing public chains in TVL. TVL has almost doubled in the past month. According to data on DefiLlama, it exceeded US$175 million on December 7 and reached US$175 million on December 26. It exceeded US$200 million every day, exceeded US$300 million on January 14, and is currently close to US$350 million.
Sui Ecosystem from It was mediocre at first and has now developed vigorously, with popular tracks and hot projects constantly emerging, with good potential for ecological development:
(1) Karrier one (Depin): January 11, 2024, Sui Foundation establishes strategic partnerships and invests in Karrier One. Karrier One is a Depin project aiming to build a decentralized mobile network and telecommunications services, with the goal of creating a community-owned carrier-grade 5G network that provides greater accessibility, speed, cost-effectiveness and security. NFT Mint is currently underway.
(2) E4C (GameFi): On January 4, 2024, E4C announced that it would be launching on Sui to provide mobile native MOBA games, sustainable in-game asset ownership, and a seamless asset trading experience. The founder of E4C is Johnson Yeh, known as the godfather of Asian e-sports. Since 2015, he has served as the head of e-sports business for Riot Games China, building LOL into the largest sports project in China. He later became General Manager of Riot Games (China, Japan and Southeast Asia). He also incubated "League of Legends Mobile Game", "League of Legends Team Battle Tactics Mobile Game", "LPL E-Sports Manager", etc. Later, he brought MOBA games to Web3 and E4C: Final Salvation was born.
(3) MRC20-MOVE (Smart Inscription): When the inscription market is hot, MRC20-MOVE will be released on January 1, 2024. The concept of smart inscriptions that are easy to expand, easy to combine and can be burned and refunded suddenly It went viral, and all 10 billion $MOVE was sold within three days. The locked amount exceeded 1 million SUI, and the minting address was nearly 50,000.
(4) Solend Protocol-Suilend Protocol (Lending): A few weeks ago Sui announced that Solend Protocol, the largest lending protocol on Solana, will be launched on Sui (supporting both Solana and Sui), called Suilend Protocol. The founder of Solend Protocol believes that Sui’s technical foundation is very developer-friendly, and the developer experience around Move is 10 times better than Solan.
The total supply of Sui is 10 billion, 48% is ecosystem reserve, 20% Private investors, 20% teams, 9% foundations, and Binance Launchpool account for 3%. The current circulation is mainly in the ecosystem, foundation and Launchpool, with a circulation rate of 11%.
Current The market capitalization is US$1.515 billion, FDV is US$13.759 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is US$745 million. The main trading venues are Binance (25.72%), Upbit (20.68%), and OKX (12.41%). In "Sei's Accelerated Development: Parallel EVM New Narrative Overlay Active Operation" released by LD Capital Research on January 12, data between new public chains were compared. Sui's market value is lower than Aptos and Sei, and the TVL of Defi applications Above, Sui is higher than Aptos and much higher than Sei.
SUI has recently unlocked 66 million tokens (92.17 million U.S. dollars) every month. The first large-scale investor unlock will be on May 3, 2024. There will be a large number of unlocks of more than 800 million tokens. 6 Starting from January, about 100 million tokens will be unlocked every month.
SUI Token There are five main categories of use cases:
(1) Native assets of the Sui platform
(2) Gas fees: Gas fees are charged for all network operations to reward participation in the proof of equity mechanism and prevent spam and denial-of-service attacks
(3) Storage Fund: The Sui Storage Fund is used to transfer equity rewards across time and compensate future validators for the storage cost of previously stored on-chain data.
(4) Proof of Stake: The delegated proof of stake mechanism is used to select, incentivize and reward the honest behavior of Sui validators and SUI owners related to their interests.
(5) Voting on the voting chain is used for governance and protocol upgrades.
The price of SUI has been declining since its listing on May 1, 2023 (closing price 1.2431) to October. The price began to rise slowly, and began to accelerate on January 8, 2024, rising from 0.8 to 1.2506, returning to the listing price in 2023. From the recent 15min line, it is observed that the price is consolidating in the range of 1.35–1.45, with the 30-day EMA as support. All technical indicators are good, or may rise further after consolidation.
In the case of one-hour spot orders, around 1.35 There are relatively many buy orders, and there is certain short-term support. The intensive sell orders above are at 1.42, around 1.5.
Futures In terms of data, the 30-minute contract positions have declined to a certain extent since the high point. The ratio of long and short positions is 1.06, and the ratio of long and short positions of large households is 1.33. The number of active transactions has increased, but the difference in transaction amount has not changed much, which is generally consistent with the situation. The disk accumulates strength status.
1. The MOVE language used by Sui has the advantages of high scalability, good programmability, fast speed and low cost. The ecosystem is booming and hot projects are emerging. The team has solid technical capabilities, good investment background, and a good fundamental foundation.
2. The token has not been unlocked in large amounts in the past three months. The first investor unlocked it in May. The new public chain data has advantages in comparison.
3. The token price has just returned to the price level of 2023, and the spot trading volume is active, and it is currently in a trend of consolidation or further upward breakthrough.
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