What Is Sui (SUI)?

Sui is a groundbreaking layer-1 blockchain platform designed to support the needs of global adoption by offering a secure, powerful, and scalable development platform. At its core, Sui leverages a novel object-centric data model and the secure Move programming language to address inefficiencies prevalent in existing blockchain architectures.

On top of strong technical foundations, Sui prioritizes user experience by eliminating barriers commonly associated with blockchain interactions. Through innovations like zkLogin, sponsored transactions, and programmable transaction blocks, Sui creates a higher standard for user experience within Web3 by ensuring applications are accessible and user-friendly.

Who Are the Founders of Sui?

Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui, was founded by former lead architects of Meta’s blockchain research team:

Evan Cheng, CEO of Mysten Labs, has an extensive background in platform development, with more than 24 years building developer-facing technology and leading engineering teams at companies such as Apple and Facebook.

Adeniyi Abiodun, CPO of Mysten Labs, has led engineering and product teams across Big Tech companies including Oracle, VMware and Facebook. He has led product teams within the blockchain industry for over 10 years.

Sam Blackshear, CTO of Mysten Labs, is a researcher and engineer specializing in programming language design, program verification, and developer tools. He is the creator of the Move smart contract language.

George Danezis, Chief Scientist of Mysten Labs, is a Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at University College London with over 20 years of experience working on peer-to-peer system security and privacy.

Kostas Chalkias - Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs, has over 10 years of experience in lead cryptographer roles in many big tech companies, including Meta and R3.

What Makes Sui Unique?

Sui’s innovative architecture offers low-latency transactions with stable transaction fees, high throughput through horizontal scaling and parallelized execution, and empowers developers with powerful capabilities and tools to craft the next generation of Web3 applications.

At the heart of Sui's uniqueness lies its object-oriented design, offering a new way of developing on blockchain. Offering powerful capabilities in a way that ensures deep composability with important developer and user safety measures. As everything on Sui is an object, the ability to define object types allow developers to create objects tailored to their application needs with inherent network-wide compatibility. This changes how assets and protocols can work together to create greater products with broad composability.

Dramatic improvements to crucial network processes, such as transaction processing, are enabled by the use of objects on Sui. By having explicitly defined transaction dependencies transactions on Sui are able to be executed in parallel. Along with this, Sui has unique consensus requirements that allow specific transactions to actually bypass consensus and be completed significantly faster. Many transactions are finalized and settled in less than half a second all while maintaining high throughput and stable transaction fees.

Application builders benefit from Sui’s focus to provide solutions that overcome common barriers in Web3 adoptions. This is accomplished through tools natively available for all developers such as zkLogin and sponsored transactions addressing barriers such as wallet onboarding and transaction fees, respectively.

Finally, Move on Sui has been tailored to Sui’s object-oriented data model creating a development platform that combines a new yet intuitive platform with a powerful and secure programming language. This allows both developers and users to rest easier knowing that the additional safety measures required by Move on Sui help to mitigate, if not entirely eliminate, the most common exploits in other smart contract developing languages.

With Sui Wallet and zkLogin, you can onboard Sui immediately! zkLogin allows you to create and manage Sui accounts with a simple web login like Google. Using zero-knowledge cryptography, zkLogin brings the convenience of using a familiar web account to all the benefits around security and ownership that blockchain technology provides. Download Sui Wallet and get started today.