01 / THE PURPOSE
What is Sui for?
Sui treats assets as first-class objects with explicit ownership. This changes how developers represent coins, collectibles and application state compared with contract-maintained account mappings.
02 / THE ARCHITECTURE
Three questions about the machinery.
How does it agree?
Consensus & securityDelegated proof-of-stake validators agree on the ledger. Stake, validator operation and the protocol’s consensus assumptions protect execution; object ownership does not replace consensus.
Where do instructions run?
Execution modelMove packages define behavior, while objects hold data. Owned and shared objects have different access patterns, and programmable transaction blocks combine multiple operations.
What is the token for?
SUI in the systemSUI pays computation and storage fees and can be delegated for staking. A storage fund helps compensate future validators for data that earlier users created.
03 / THE DESIGN CHOICES
What comes with the design?
Each architecture makes choices about security, performance, coordination, and who can participate.
Move and ownership checks reduce some error classes but do not prove an application economically safe.
Popular shared objects, validator concentration and package upgrade powers remain relevant.
04 / IN PRACTICE
Follow one use.
Illustrative: an owned game item can move to a new owner, while a shared marketplace object governs the sale. Holding the item does not necessarily grant the marketplace’s admin capability.
05 / CHECK THE EXPLANATION
Sources & snapshot.
Network descriptions use the references below. The CoinMarketCap snapshot determines which assets are in scope and their captured rank; it does not assess the quality of a network.
- Sui · Ethereum to Sui Sui
- Sui · Tokenomics Sui
- CoinMarketCap top 100 snapshot Captured 14 Nov 2026 · See the complete scope audit
- Sui (SUI) on CoinMarketCap Captured asset rank #25
Profile checked 14 Nov 2026. Network designs and ranked positions can change.