Sui Foundation Redirects 117M SUI to Nurture Network and Community Expansion

Mobilizing Resources for a Thriving Ecosystem

In a robust move aimed at fostering its already burgeoning environment, the Sui Foundation has proclaimed its strategy to divert 117 million SUI tokens from external market participants. This calculated redirection is designed to enrich various avenues that buttress the growth and advancement of the Sui Network, an innovative Layer 1 blockchain that unfurled its mainnet in May and has been hailed for its superior scalability and unmatched throughput within the industry.

Despite the tokens having previously been in circulation, this strategic movement will leave the circulating supply of SUI unimpacted. Furthermore, this comes in conjunction with an additional 25 million SUI set aside to celebrate the victors of the recent liquid staking hackathon, the results of which were divulged on October 3rd.

Channeling Support to Developers and DApps

The freshly reacquired tokens are set to spearhead the expansion of Sui’s ecosystem in several key areas. This encompasses extending grants to developers to innovate and craft the forthcoming wave of decentralized applications (DApps) on the Sui platform. Furthermore, the fund will back Sui’s avant-garde DeepBook CLOB, automated market makers, and the dynamic liquid staking and lending protocols within the network.

Following its tangible strong uptake, Sui’s DeFi ecosystem emerges as a principal recipient of these new allocations. The network recently celebrated a record total value locked (TVL) of roughly $37 million, a spectacular increase of over 100% in the preceding two months, as documented by the prominent DeFi TVL aggregator, DefiLlama. The latest initiative is a doubling down on these early gains, indicating a bullish outlook for its DeFi sphere.

Celebrating and Building Upon Noteworthy Achievements

Sui Network has not only launched but also dramatically showcased a series of accomplishments in a remarkably short timeframe post-mainnet launch. Within a mere two months, the network proudly reported an industry milestone of 65.8 million transactions executed in a single day, eclipsing the performances of all preceding blockchains. Demonstrating its robust scalability, the cost per transaction remained steadfast even amidst the influx of network traffic. A mere four months saw the network blossom to encompass over 6 million active wallets.

In one of its latest triumphs, Sui launched zkLogin, a pioneering feature intrinsic to the network, permitting users to access DApps employing their existing Web 2 social accounts—such as Google, Facebook, and Twitch—enabling a blend of familiarity, enhanced privacy, and security.

Positioning Sui for a Radiant Future

The numerous milestones achieved by Sui and its vibrant community within the initial five months are indeed commendable, yet, in the words of Greg Siourounis, Managing Director of the Sui Foundation, they merely “represent only a fraction of what this network was built to achieve.” The current reallocation emerges as a pivotal injection of resources that will invigorate Sui’s community of creators, developers, and ecosystem participants, propelling the network’s ecosystem to new heights in the forthcoming months and far beyond.