What is Sui?
Sui is the world’s first permissionless Layer 1 blockchain completely designed from the ground up. They are a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain with horizontally scaleable throughput and storage.
Ex-members of the Meta team came together to form Mysten Labs– the company behind Sui. They are also building Move, which is an open-source smart contract programming language.
However, Sui is not a derivative or an add-on of the Diem network. Instead, it is a step-function advancement in blockchain technology that is designed to allow creators and developers to build experiences for web3 users.
Who is the team behind Sui?
Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, Sam Blackshear, George Danezis and Kostas Chalkias co-founded Sui. They are co-founders are former senior leaders of Facebook’s (Meta) advanced blockchain research and development organization. They were responsible for delivering some of the most advanced open source components such as the programming language, execution engine and cryptography of the Diem network.
What are Sui’s main features?
Sui has the following main features:
- Sui is able to scale horizontally without any upper bounds. This enables them to meet application demand whilst maintaining extremely low operating costs per transaction.
- The design of Sui is groundbreaking in that it eliminates a critical bottleneck in existing blockchains. In traditional blockchains, transactions (though independent of each other) are pushed into sequential blocks which creates wasteful computational power. Sui’s innovation is that they will organise data into independent objects, meaning that transactions can be executed in parallel.
- The network is also able to scale throughput horizontally because it enables parallel agreement on causally independent transactions. They achieve this through Byzantine consistent broadcast, which eliminates the overhead caused by global consensus yet without sacrificing safety and liveness guarantees.
Sui’s unique features mean there will be unmatched scalability and instant settlement of transactions. The platform can scale horizontally to meet the increasing demands of applications. Sui’s authorities can add workers to increase processing power in order to meet growing network capacity. The result of this would be lower gas fees even when network traffic is high, and thus better user experiences for web3 apps.
How do users participate in Sui?
There will be 3 types of participants: Users, token holders and Validators.
- Users will be responsible for submitting transactions to the platform in order to create, change and transfer digital assets or interact with more complex applications.
- Token holders have the option of delegating their tokens to validators and participating in their proof-of-work mechanism. SUI token holders also have the right to participate in Sui’s governance and decide on the future direction of the project.
- Validators manage the processing and execution of transactions on the Sui platform.
Who are Sui blockchain’s investors?
Sui has so far raised US$36 million in Series A funding. Sui’s Series A funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other participants in Sui’s funding include a16z crypto, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Samsung Next, Slow Ventures, Standard Crypto, NFX, and Scribble Ventures, among others.
What is the $SUI crypto token?
The SUI token is the native asset of the Sui platform with a total supply capped at 10,000,000 (i.e. 10 billion). A portion of SUI’s total supply will be released at the mainnet launch of the platform. The remaining tokens will be vested over the coming years or distributed as future stake reward subsidies.
The SUI token will have 4 main purposes: Staking, gas fees, as an underlying asset of the economy, and lastly for governance. Specifically:
- SUI can be staked in order to participate in the platform’s proof-of-work mechanism.
- SUI is the asset used for paying gas fees required to execute and store transactions or do various operations on the platform.
- SUI is used as an asset on the platform with all the standard features of traditional money- used as a unit of account, a medium of exchange, and a store of value. It can even have more complex functions enabled by smart contracts across the Sui platform.
- SUI token holders have the right to participate in on-chain governance voting on various issues affecting the Sui platform such as protocol upgrades.
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What is the Sui economic model?
There are five major components of the Sui economic model:
- SUI token: the platform’s native token.
- Gas fees: all network operations on the platform require gas fees. Gas fees are rewarded to participants in the proof-of-stake mechanism. It can also be used to prevent spam and denial-of-service attacks.
- Storage fund: This fund is used to redistribute past transaction fees to future validators. That is, users will pay fees upfront for both computation and storage. The storage fees which are collected are deposited into a fund used to adjust the future share of staking rewards. This is so that when there is a high demand for on-chain storage, validators will receive additional rewards to compensate for their costs. When demand is lower, rewards will also be adjusted accordingly. Users however will be able to save funds through a “deletion option” which allows them to delete previously-stored on-chain data. By exercising this option, users can receive a storage fund rebate.
- Proof-of-stake mechanism: Used to select, incentivize and reward platform operators i.e. the validators and SUI delegators.
- On-chain voting: for voting and deciding on governance and protocol upgrades.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
There is no release date for the Sui platform yet.
There is currently no information on when the SUI token will be sold.
No announcement has been made on the timing of the SUI ICO yet.
No, Sui and Aptos and completely different and unrelated projects. The only connection between the two projects is that both teams have previously worked in blockchain development at Facebook (Meta).
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