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State of Sui Q4 2024

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Key Insights

  • Sui built-in Circle’s USDC and Cross-Chain Switch Protocol, VanEck launched a Sui ETN, and Phantom introduced plans to combine Sui. These developments contributed to a 153.6% QoQ enhance in Sui’s market cap to $12.1 billion, rating it fifteenth.
  • The quantity of each day transactions peaked at 58.4 million on Oct. 5, 2024, partially because of elevated memecoin exercise.
  • Sui’s DeFi TVL elevated by 67.9% to $1.7 billion in Q4 2024, a 698.5% YoY development. This development was pushed by the launch of native tokens from DeFi protocols corresponding to DeepBook, Suilend, and Bluefin, together with a 131.5% enhance in SUI’s value from Q3 to Q4.
  • Sui’s common each day DEX quantity elevated 444.8% QoQ to $265.5 million, marking a 1,591.1% YoY enhance, with Cetus accounting for 75.6% of all quantity.
  • Sui initiatives Scallop, Arttoo, Wave, and Ambrus Studio raised $10 million in Q4.

Primer

Sui (SUI) is a delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) Layer-1 blockchain designed for prime scalability and low-latency transactions optimized for mass adoption. Sui’s core developer, Mysten Labs, was created in 2021 by Evan Cheng, Sam Blackshear, Adeniyi Abiodun, Kostas Chalkias, and George Danezis. These founders beforehand led Meta’s Diem and Novi blockchain initiatives and have expertise at Apple, the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft, R3, and Oracle. Mysten Labs raised $336 million in 2021 Collection A and 2022 Collection B rounds. Sui’s mainnet launched in Could 2023.

Sui’s technological stack options many novel elements, together with its object-centric data model, Mysticeti consensus mechanism, Sui Storage Fund, and Sui Move programming language. Sui Transfer builds on the unique Move language, which was created by Mysten Labs co-founder Sam Blackshear. It provides enhanced flexibility and security in comparison with different Web3 programming languages. In contrast to Solidity’s reliance on sequential transaction processing, which may result in inefficiencies and better gasoline charges, Sui Transfer’s object-centric information mannequin allows parallel transaction processing, enhancing effectivity. Moreover, 5 of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities are not possible in Move, and three others are partially mitigated.

A number of different protocols and merchandise to enhance consumer onboarding and expertise have been launched on Sui. These embody:

  • Sponsored transactions: permits gasoline charges to be abstracted away from finish customers
  • zkLogin: allows Sui customers to transact utilizing OAuth credentials
  • Sui Bridge: a local bridge for cross-chain interoperability
  • Sui Kiosk: a decentralized system for commerce functions

Progress of the Sui ecosystem is led by the Sui Foundation, with Mysten Labs being the preliminary contributor to the event of the Sui blockchain protocol. For an entire primer on Sui, confer with our Initiation of Protection report.

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Key Metrics

Monetary Evaluation

In Q4 2024, SUI’s circulating market cap elevated by 153.6% to $12.22 billion QoQ, outperforming the broader crypto market (52.8% enhance) by almost threefold. This surge will be partly attributed to the introduction of native USDC on Sui, the launch of the VanEck Sui ETN, Sui’s strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, and Phantom’s integration of Sui. By the tip of Q4, Sui climbed six spots from Q3 to rank because the fifteenth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, reaching an all-time excessive of $4.93 on Dec. 16, 2024. Over the previous 12 months, SUI’s value rose 428.2%, and its circulating market cap elevated by 1,410.1%.

Sui’s charges embody all gasoline charges generated from transactions on the community, which consist of computation prices and non-refundable storage charges. These charges are subsequently distributed to community validators. In Q4 2024, whole quarterly charges reached an all-time excessive of $5.4 million (equal to 1.8 million SUI), marking a 613.6% QoQ enhance and a 1,063.8% YoY enhance.

This rise in charges will be attributed to a number of elements:

  • The introduction of native USDC on Sui
  • The launch of the VanEck Sui ETN.
  • Elevated adoption of Sui’s DeFi protocols.
  • The rising value of SUI.

Whereas the worth of SUI elevated by 131.5% QoQ, contributing to the expansion in charges when measured in USD, charges denominated in SUI additionally grew by 127.9% QoQ. This means that whereas value appreciation performed a task, different elements drove the rise in community exercise and price technology.

SUI has a hard and fast whole provide of 10 billion, with 1 billion tokens put aside for staking rewards. Relative to the remaining 9 billion tokens, SUI’s annualized inflation price from staking reward issuance was 0.34% on the finish of Q4 2024. This price is about to proceed reducing by 10% each three months till all 1 billion tokens are distributed.

Different inflationary pressures got here from token provide unlocks. By the tip of Q4 2024, 29.30% of SUI’s whole provide was distributed, a 9.30% QoQ enhance from Q3 2024.
This enhance in provide got here from unlocks that occurred on the next dates. All values are primarily based on SUI’s value on Dec. 31, 2024.

  • Oct. 1, 2024:
    • Ecosystem: 12.6 million SUI ($51.9 million) unlocked for the Neighborhood Reserve
    • Workforce: 12.5 million SUI ($51.5 million) unlocked for the Early Contributors and Mysten Labs Treasury
    • Personal Buyers: 39.2 million SUI ($161.5 million) unlocked for the Collection A and Collection B buyers
    • Staking Rewards: 19.7 million SUI ($81.2 million) unlocked for the Staking Subsidies
    • Complete: 83.93 million SUI ($345.8 million) unlocked – 0.93% of whole tokens vesting and 0.84% of whole token provide
  • Nov. 1, 2024:
    • Ecosystem: 12.6 million SUI ($51.9 million) unlocked for the Neighborhood Reserve
    • Workforce: 12.5 million SUI ($51.5 million) unlocked for the Early Contributors and Mysten Labs Treasury
    • Personal Buyers: 39.2 million SUI ($161.5 million) unlocked for the Collection A and Collection B buyers
    • Staking Rewards: 17.8 million SUI ($73.3 million) unlocked for the Staking Subsidies
    • Complete: 82.03 million SUI ($338 million) unlocked – 0.91% of whole tokens vesting and 0.82% of whole token provide
  • Dec. 1, 2024:
    • Ecosystem: 12.6 million SUI ($51.9 million) unlocked for the Neighborhood Reserve
    • Workforce: 12.5 million SUI ($51.5 million) unlocked for the Early Contributors and Mysten Labs Treasury
    • Personal Buyers: 39.2 million SUI ($161.5 million) unlocked for the Collection A and Collection B buyers
    • Staking Rewards: 17.8 million SUI ($73.3 million) unlocked for the Staking Subsidies
    • Complete: 82.03 million SUI ($338 million) unlocked – 0.91% of whole tokens vesting and 0.82% of whole token provide

In whole, 248 million SUI tokens ($1.02 billion) have been unlocked in Q4 2024, which is 2.48% of the overall provide. On the finish of Q4 2024, 78.6% of the eligible provide was staked, a 0.30% QoQ lower. Word that locked tokens can nonetheless be staked and earn liquid staking rewards. Thus, the provision eligible to be staked is SUI’s whole provide slightly than its circulating provide. With such a excessive stake price, SUI’s annualized real yield is barely under zero, at -0.24%.

Community Evaluation

Utilization

Community exercise, measured by each day transactions and each day lively addresses, continued to develop following the numerous SUI token unlocks in Could 2024. In Q4 2024, common each day transactions elevated by 153.3% QoQ to eight.4 million, a 263.5% YoY enhance. Common each day lively addresses elevated by 35.6% QoQ to 875,000, a 1,248.4% YoY enhance. The quantity of each day transactions hit an all-time excessive of 58.4 million on Oct. 5, 2024, partly because of increased memecoin exercise.

Regardless of the numerous enhance in transactions, Sui’s common transaction price decreased by 7.7% in Q4. The common transaction price was 0.0024 SUI ($0.0069), making tens of millions of each day transactions viable. Along with offering gasoline charges at a fraction of a penny, Sui allows dApps and different entities to summary away gasoline charges from finish customers through sponsored transactions. Throughout Q4, on common, ~6.3% of all transactions on Sui were sponsored.

In earlier quarters, Sui noticed a rise within the quantity of transactions and lively addresses following Mysten Labs’ Quests (Quest 1, Quest 2, and Quest 3), vital token unlocks, and have launches corresponding to DeepBook and zkLogin.

Safety and Decentralization

Complete SUI staked steadily decreased from Q1 highs of 8.3 billion (83% of whole eligible provide) to 7.9 billion (79% of whole eligible provide) by Q4. With SUI’s value appreciation, development in whole staked denominated in USD tells a unique story, up 131.3% QoQ to $32.4 billion. Consequently, Sui is the third-highest network in phrases of staked market cap.

Lively validators on Sui have remained comparatively regular since launch, with slight development from 104 to 108. The Sui Basis holds a good portion of the overall SUI provide on behalf of the Ecosystem allocation and helps distribute stakes equally amongst validators. Consequently, Sui ended Q4 2024 with a Nakamoto coefficient of 17, which is above the median for a curated selection of Proof-of-Stake Networks.