سویی SUI / Sui

To learn more about Sui Network, check out our deep dive on Sui.

What Is Sui (SUI)?

Sui is a groundbreaking layer-1 blockchain platform designed to support the needs of global adoption by offering a secure, powerful, and scalable development platform. At its core, Sui leverages a novel object-centric data model and the secure Move programming language to address inefficiencies prevalent in existing blockchain architectures.

On top of strong technical foundations, Sui prioritizes user experience by eliminating barriers commonly associated with blockchain interactions. Through innovations like zkLogin, sponsored transactions, and programmable transaction blocks, Sui creates a higher standard for user experience within Web3 by ensuring applications are accessible and user-friendly.

Who Are the Founders of Sui?

Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui, was founded by former lead architects of Meta’s blockchain research team:

Evan Cheng, CEO of Mysten Labs, has an extensive background in platform development, with more than 24 years building developer-facing technology and leading engineering teams at companies such as Apple and Facebook.

Adeniyi Abiodun, CPO of Mysten Labs, has led engineering and product teams across Big Tech companies including Oracle, VMware and Facebook. He has led product teams within the blockchain industry for over 10 years.

Sam Blackshear, CTO of Mysten Labs, is a researcher and engineer specializing in programming language design, program verification, and developer tools. He is the creator of the Move smart contract language.

George Danezis, Chief Scientist of Mysten Labs, is a Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at University College London with over 20 years of experience working on peer-to-peer system security and privacy.

Kostas Chalkias - Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs, has over 10 years of experience in lead cryptographer roles in many big tech companies, including Meta and R3.

What Makes Sui Unique?

Sui’s innovative architecture offers low-latency transactions with stable transaction fees, high throughput through horizontal scaling and parallelized execution, and empowers developers with powerful capabilities and tools to craft the next generation of Web3 applications.

At the heart of Sui's uniqueness lies its object-oriented design, offering a new way of developing on blockchain. Offering powerful capabilities in a way that ensures deep composability with important developer and user safety measures. As everything on Sui is an object, the ability to define object types allow developers to create objects tailored to their application needs with inherent network-wide compatibility.