What Sui is
Sui is a proof-of-stake Layer-1 blockchain, currently ranked 31st by market capitalization among the assets we track. As a proof-of-stake Layer-1, Sui hosts applications, settles their transactions, and lets SUI holders earn yield by helping validate. Capital at stake — not electricity — is what keeps the chain honest.
Sui (SUI) is a scalable Layer 1 blockchain designed for secure and fast transactions, facilitating new decentralized applications and opportunities in the Web3 ecosystem. Its innovative architecture aims to optimize both performance and user experience.
How consensus and the token economy connect
Validators propose and attest to blocks; honest behavior earns rewards, dishonest behavior burns the stake. That feedback loop is what lets Sui finalize transactions without miners.
Background & fundamentals
Its codebase is open-source, meaning the implementation can be audited rather than taken on trust. The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in SUI. In sector terms it is most often filed under Cryptocurrency, Platform, and Smart Contracts.
Where Sui sits in the market
At $0.6923, Sui carries a market capitalization of $2.47B. Around $208.91M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 8.46% of the float — elevated, often a sign of narrative-driven trading.
Almost the entire SUI supply is already in circulation (~100.0% of the 10B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. SUI remains -87% beneath its all-time high of $5.35, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.3630, SUI is up +91%.
What the price history shows
Recent moves read 24-hour -1.55%, 7-day +1.42%, 30-day -5.05%, 1-year -73.78%. SUI is currently trading near the bottom of its 365-day range (around the 1st percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Sui in the Moderate-volatility band — it shows the kind of price movement common in mid-cap crypto assets — meaningful but not unusual. Over the last 30 days the move totals -5.05%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate Sui
A grounded read on SUI comes down to three questions:
- Real usage — active addresses, fees paid, and total value locked — does on-chain demand justify the valuation?
- Staking economics — the share of SUI staked, the yield, and unlock/queue dynamics that govern liquid supply.
- Ecosystem depth — how many applications and how much liquidity have chosen Sui over competing Layer-1s.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
