Q1 2025 Report Unveils Shocking Unlock Data

Key Takeaways:

Sui’s market cap plunged 40.3% QoQ in Q1 2025, underperforming broader crypto markets.
$549.9M in tokens had been unlocked, placing inflationary stress on worth and staking returns.
Prime protocols like Suilend and NAVI retained dominance, regardless of a decline in TVL.

The primary quarter of 2025 marked a difficult interval for the Sui community, with its circulating market capitalization falling by 40.3% to $7.2 billion. This stark drop outpaced the broader crypto market’s decline of 18.2% throughout the identical interval, as highlighted within the latest Messari report.

Nevertheless, Sui nonetheless managed to climb two ranks, securing the thirteenth spot in market capitalization rankings, hinting at resilience within the face of a downturn.

Payment era on the community mirrored the worth trajectory, with whole charges falling to $3.6 million, a 33.3% quarter-on-quarter lower. The drop in SUI’s worth, together with lowered person exercise, led to a 44.4% fall in charges denominated in SUI.

Regardless of the setback, the community maintained its low-cost transaction mannequin, with common charges of $0.0087 per transaction. Sponsored transactions accounted for over 23% of the community’s whole, persevering with to drive usability and developer engagement.

Token inflation was pushed by provide unlocks totaling 242.5 million tokens throughout January, February, and March. These included distributions to early contributors, traders, and neighborhood reserves. Whereas solely 2.42% of the whole provide was unlocked, its $549.9 million valuation created tangible market stress.

At quarter-end, 77.3% of its eligible provide remained staked. Nevertheless, with liquid staking enabled for locked tokens, its annualized actual yield edged into the purple at -0.14%, reflecting inflation and restricted returns.

Sui’s DeFi Ecosystem Holds Floor Regardless of Worth Erosion

The community’s DeFi panorama continued to evolve, although whole worth locked (TVL) metrics confronted notable contractions. Lending protocol Suilend closed the quarter with $362.1 million in TVL, a 25.6% decline, but it retained its main place with a 29.3% market share.

Notably, Suilend launched STEAMM, a superfluid AMM that enhances capital effectivity by concurrently deploying LP property throughout lending and swaps.

NAVI adopted carefully with $304.5 million in TVL, reflecting a 24.7% market share. Throughout Q1, it rebranded its NAVI.ag aggregator to Astros and expanded swap capabilities by way of Mayan Finance. In the meantime, Scallop reached $147.6 million in TVL and pushed its swap quantity previous $300 million, including multicurrency help and securing listings for its SCA token on main exchanges like BTSE and Coinstore.

DEX Quantity Breaks Information, Suilend and Cetus Lead Surge

Decentralized change exercise on the community hit a brand new milestone, with day by day common DEX volumes climbing 14.6% quarter-over-quarter to $304.3 million. Cetus and Bluefin took the lead, producing $171 million and $68.5 million in day by day quantity, respectively. Different lively DEXs included Kriya, DeepBook, and Turbos, reflecting Sui’s robust throughput and increasing buying and selling infrastructure.