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Layer 1 blockchain

Sui ticker SUI

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  • 6 reviewed developments
  • 40 cited sources

Summary

Delegated proof-of-stake layer 1. SUI holders delegate stake to validators for roughly 24-hour epochs, and decisions need validators holding more than 2/3 of voting power. Validators run Mysticeti, which builds a directed acyclic graph of blocks proposed in parallel; Sui's docs say it needs only three rounds of messages to commit, while Sui's November 2025 Mysticeti v2 post put the median for transactions at four rounds, with three as a goal. Executed transaction effects are certified by a quorum and batched into checkpoints signed by more than 2/3 of the committee. From node v1.60 (November 2025) Mysticeti v2 folds transaction validation into consensus. The documented penalty for a poorly performing validator is a cut to its rewards through peer scoring; slashing of staked principal is not described. 12359103738

Design

System
Layer 1 blockchainPermissionless proof-of-stake base layer. Consensus orders blocks that many validators propose in parallel as a directed acyclic graph (Mysticeti) rather than one chain of blocks, and the network's hash-linked history is a sequence of certified checkpoints, so block-interval metrics apply only loosely.
Settlement family
Its own design
Scarce resource
Stake (proof of stake)
State model
Other
Finality
Other
Who makes blocks
Every validator in the active committee can propose consensus blocks in parallel, and Mysticeti votes on and certifies leader blocks in parallel. A candidate needs at least 3 units of voting power to join (SIP-39); Sui's network page lists more than 100 mainnet validators plus 2 operated by Mysten Labs.
Fork choice
No longest-chain or heaviest-chain rule. A transaction is final once validators with more than 2/3 of voting power certify its effects, and a certified checkpoint is permanent history. When validators derived different consensus output in January 2026, the network halted instead of forking, and Sui reports that no certified transaction was rolled back.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Scalability and Security Contested
Gives up
Operational decentralization and liveness margin. Sui's suggested full node has 128 GB of RAM and a 4 TB NVMe drive, validators are asked for 24 physical cores and 1 Gbps, and the active set is around one hundred validators. Software bugs halted the network for about six hours in January 2026 and three more times on 28 and 29 May 2026.Security here means safety while more than 2/3 of stake is honest: Sui's incident reports say the halts kept finalized history intact. Whether about one hundred high-specification validators is adequately decentralized is disputed. The 2025 Cetus recovery, where a stake-weighted validator vote approved a protocol upgrade that moved specific frozen funds, is recorded here as a fact about governance reach, not as a verdict.
Full node at home
Demanding 678Sui suggests 8 physical cores (16 vCPUs), 128 GB RAM and a 4 TB NVMe drive for a full node and recommends starting from a snapshot rather than syncing from genesis. Its storage page, with mainnet figures as of November 2025, gives about 2.5 TB for a pruned full node and 16 TB for an unpruned node keeping full history, which grew by about 10 to 40 GB per day depending on network load. Validators are listed at 24 physical cores, 128 GB RAM, 4 TB NVMe and 1 Gbps.
Throughput claims
  • Lab benchmark: 400,000 tx/s 2Controlled benchmark; not observed network behavior.Throughput reached before consensus latency passed 1 second in a 50-node benchmark; test date not stated.Not stated on the documentation page.Measures the Mysticeti consensus engine in a benchmark, not observed Sui mainnet load or end-to-end execution. The same page gives 300,000 for a 10-node test and a sustained 200,000 at about 0.5 seconds of commit latency; hardware, transaction mix and network conditions are not stated. Ignores state growth, contention on shared objects and propagation to full nodes; not comparable with another chain's figure.
  • Lab benchmark: 100,000 tx/s 40Controlled benchmark; not observed network behavior.Throughput at about 1 second of latency in a wide-area-network test reported by Sui in April 2024.An earlier Sui figure for the same consensus design that differs from the later documentation benchmark, which shows how strongly results depend on test setup. Test hardware and transaction mix are not described in the post; this is not observed mainnet load.
Headline figures are not comparable across chains. A theoretical peak is never a like-for-like number.

Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of Sui: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; the reviewed evidence is building blocks. A programmable transaction runs up to 1,024 commands all-or-nothing, and Sui's docs publish a sample escrow contract in which two parties swap locked objects without trusting each other; no live mainnet swap tool built on it is cited. No protocol-level cross-chain hash-time-locked swap was verified. 1115
Authenticated data publicationCore-team softwareLimited scopeWalrus, a storage network coordinated through Sui, stores public blobs whose IDs are derived from their content and records on Sui an availability certificate signed by storage nodes holding 2/3 of shards, so a reader can fetch a blob from those nodes and check it against its ID. Mysten Labs publishes the implementation (the MystenLabs/walrus repository the Walrus docs link to); the storage nodes' operators were not reviewed. Limited: a blob cannot be changed without changing its ID, and no way to discover updates is described. 18
Light clientsBuilt into the protocolLimited scopeConsensus produces what a light client checks: the last checkpoint of each epoch names the next committee and its keys, so a client holding the genesis checkpoint can verify later checkpoints and, through them, transactions, events and objects. Mysten's own repository ships a command-line light client that does this. Limited: it fetches data from a full node or archive and must be synced regularly, and wallet adoption was not reviewed. 516
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel network anchored to Sui was reviewed.
Programmable spendingNative (protocol or core-team software) Earlier definitionMove contracts govern objects; one transaction can chain up to 1,024 commands; native multisig can mix Ed25519, secp256k1 and secp256r1 keys; zkLogin lets an OAuth login plus a zero-knowledge proof authorize an address, with the verifying key built into validator software. 111213
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; no way for a sender to cancel or reclaim a payment was reviewed. Native multisig (up to 10 weighted keys) can include a backup signer, which Sui's zkLogin docs recommend for recovery; that is a plain multisig threshold, which the current definition does not count as a recovery path. Issuers of regulated coins can block addresses from sending the coin, but the docs describe no seizure; the 2025 Cetus fund recovery was a one-off validator-approved upgrade, not a user feature. 12131436
RollupsUnknownNo rollup settling to Sui was found in reviewed sources; absence was not exhaustively verified.
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
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How this feature is provided
Built into the protocol, core-team software or independent software says where a feature lives and who can change it. These are implementation layers, not quality: core-team software is not closer to the protocol than independent software.
Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
The list of capabilities is incomplete. Do not read these rows as a chain leading or lagging overall.

Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for Sui
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersEstablished in the ecosystemCetus (concentrated-liquidity AMM), DeepBook (order book, not an AMM)Cetus describes itself as a concentrated-liquidity exchange built on Sui. DeepBook v3 runs order-book markets as shared-object pools and is listed for context only. Cetus was exploited in May 2025, and recovering the frozen funds needed a validator vote on a protocol upgrade. 192036 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsEstablished in the ecosystemUSDC (Circle), USDsui (issued through Bridge), AUSD (Agora), FDUSD (First Digital)Circle lists a native USDC coin type on Sui. Sui's gasless-transfer allowlist names USDC, USDsui, suiUSDe, USDY, FDUSD, AUSD and USDB. USDsui was announced in November 2025 as a Sui-branded dollar issued through Bridge's Open Issuance platform. Tether's supported-protocol list does not include Sui, so USDT on Sui would be a bridged representation. 17212324 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsUnknownNo algorithmic stablecoin with material usage was verified. suiUSDe, issued with Ethena, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets and matching short futures positions; that is hedge-backed rather than algorithmic, with different risks from reserve-backed coins. 25 As of Sep 27, 2026.
BridgesNative to the protocolSui Bridge (Ethereum), Circle CCTP, legacy version (USDC), Wormhole (wrapped token transfers)Sui Bridge is a Sui framework package operated by a committee of Sui validators; it launched on mainnet in September 2024 for ETH and WETH between Ethereum and Sui. Circle lists Sui only under the legacy first version of its burn-and-mint transfer protocol. Wormhole lists Sui for wrapped token transfers. Risk: Sui Bridge rests on the honesty of the signing validator committee and on its Move and Ethereum contracts; per-route hourly limits in US-dollar terms cap losses but do not remove them. Wormhole-wrapped tokens depend on Wormhole's own security model and on the origin chain, and Circle marks Sui's burn-and-mint route as legacy. 22262728 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Block explorersEstablished in the ecosystemSuiscan, SuiVision, Polymedia Explorer, OKLinkSui's tooling page lists these explorers; Suiscan links to Blockberry and SuiVision to BlockVision. Listing is not a quality or completeness check, and explorer data is provider-indexed. 29 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Hardware walletsEstablished in the ecosystemLedgerSee custody rows: Ledger maintains a Sui device app and Sui code in Ledger Wallet, although Ledger's Sui page still describes a third-party wallet path; Trezor states that it does not support Sui. A Sui-specific device, Suiball by Citadel, was announced for pre-order in October 2025 and was not verified as shipping. 30313435 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for Sui
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerNative supportSame as native: UnknownCan: Hold Sui keys on Ledger Nano S Plus, Nano X, Flex or Stax with Ledger's Sui device app
Can: Send and receive SUI and Sui tokens in Ledger Wallet, announced by the Sui Foundation in April 2025 and backed by a Sui module in Ledger's wallet code
Can: Sign Sui transactions from a compatible third-party Sui wallet, the path Ledger's Sui page describesLedger's own Sui page, last modified in October 2024, still tells users to connect a third-party Sui wallet, which predates the April 2025 integration announcement. Ledger's open-source wallet code contains Sui staking and unstaking logic, but staking and swaps inside Ledger Wallet were not confirmed on a Ledger page. 30313233 As of Sep 27, 2026.
TrezorNone foundSame as native: NoCannot: Manage SUI in Trezor Suite
Cannot: Use a Trezor for Sui through a path Trezor supportsTrezor's Sui page states that Trezor does not currently support Sui. 34 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Public data

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Public-data lookups for Sui
LookupStatusWhat it covers and its limits
Address or accountNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
Tokens and assetsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
NFTsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
TransactionsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.

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Sourced developments

Developments: Review overdue Reviewed Sep 27, 2026; next review was due Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 27, 2026 Next check due Oct 27, 2026.

All 40 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. Tokenomics (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  2. Consensus (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  3. Transaction Lifecycle (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  4. Security (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  5. Checkpoint Verification (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  6. Storage (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  7. Sui Full Node Configuration (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  8. Validator Deployment and Configuration (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  9. Validator Node Rewards (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  10. Network Info (external site)Sui Foundation (sui.io) · retrieved
  11. Programmable Transaction Blocks (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  12. Multisig (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  13. zkLogin (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  14. Regulated Coins (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  15. Trustless Swap (escrow example) (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  16. sui-light-client README (external site)MystenLabs/sui repository · retrieved
  17. Gasless Stablecoin Transfers (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  18. Core concepts (external site)Walrus documentation · retrieved
  19. Cetus (external site)Cetus · retrieved
  20. DeepBook v3 design (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  21. USDC contract addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  22. CCTP supported blockchains (external site)Circle · retrieved
  23. Supported protocols (external site)Tether · retrieved
  24. Sui unveils USDsui native stablecoin (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  25. suiUSDe announcement (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  26. Sui Bridge launches on mainnet (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  27. Module sui_bridge::limiter (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  28. Wrapped Token Transfers supported networks (external site)Wormhole documentation · retrieved
  29. Tooling (external site)Sui Documentation · retrieved
  30. Sui Wallet (external site)Ledger · retrieved
  31. app-sui (Ledger device app for Sui) (external site)LedgerHQ on GitHub · retrieved
  32. ledger-live coin-sui module (external site)LedgerHQ on GitHub · retrieved
  33. Ledger Live wallet self-custody for SUI (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  34. Sui wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  35. Citadel Suiball hardware wallet (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  36. Cetus incident response: onchain community vote (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  37. Mysticeti v2 (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  38. Sui mainnet network stall resolution (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  39. Sui mainnet halts resolved after major upgrade (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved
  40. Mysticeti consensus reduces latency (external site)Sui Foundation blog · retrieved

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