Sui
- Ticker
- SUI
- Category
- Smart-contract platform
- Risk profile
- Volatile
What it is
A smart-contract network that models state as individually owned objects rather than one global account table, which lets transactions that touch nothing in common be processed at the same time.
Why this risk level
- A transfer involving only objects one address owns does not need the network to agree on an ordering against everyone else's transactions, so it can take a faster settlement path than one touching shared state
- Contracts are written in Move, a language designed so that assets are types the compiler tracks — a resource cannot be silently copied or dropped, which removes a family of bugs at the language level rather than the audit level
- SUI pays gas and is staked to validators; storage is paid for up front with a portion refunded when data is deleted, so the cost model differs from chains that charge only per transaction
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