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Sui Network has completed three years since its May 2023 mainnet launch, marking the milestone with a series of institutional and infrastructure developments spanning regulated derivatives, exchange-traded products, and protocol upgrades.
CME Group listed SUI futures contracts, making Sui only the fourth Layer-1 blockchain to enter CME’s regulated derivatives market. The others were Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
In the US, three staking ETFs have listed, and cumulative active addresses on the network have passed 228 million. DeFi total value locked peaked at $2.6 billion.
Sui’s original architecture emphasized parallel execution as a core design principle rather than an add-on. Within two months of launch, the network processed 65.8 million transactions in a single day—described as the highest recorded across all blockchains at the time—with gas fees remaining nearly flat throughout.
Several infrastructure additions in 2023 shaped the chain’s longer-term trajectory. In July 2023, the Sui Foundation launched DeepBook, a native central limit order book embedded directly into the protocol. The network’s design also centralizes liquidity: every DeFi application on Sui draws liquidity from a shared pool, a structure noted as uncommon among Layer-1 networks.
In September 2023, zkLogin went live, enabling users to authenticate Web3 applications using Google or Facebook credentials. The use of zero-knowledge proofs for identity on-chain reduced reliance on seed phrases or separate wallet setup, lowering the entry barrier for mainstream users.
By 2024, the focus shifted toward consensus performance. In August, Mysticeti launched as a DAG-based consensus engine, cutting latency by 80% and bringing finality to 640 milliseconds.
As the network moved into 2025 and 2026, the infrastructure stack continued to fill in. Walrus Protocol added decentralized storage in March 2025, completing the native stack from execution to data storage. Mysticeti V2 followed in November, delivering sub-second finality and horizontal validator scaling.
On the product side, 21Shares listed the first SUI ETF on Nasdaq in December 2025—a 2x leveraged product. By February 2026, three staking ETFs from Grayscale, Canary Capital, and 21Shares had listed in the US.
During the same period, USDsui launched through Stripe’s subsidiary Bridge. Cumulative stablecoin transfers on Sui then crossed $1 trillion in March 2026.
One of the most consequential developments highlighted was Hashi, developed by Mysten Labs. Hashi is described as a native Bitcoin collateralization primitive that allows BTC to be used directly as on-chain collateral without wrapping or centralized custody. The system is secured through MPC and Move’s ownership model, and the article notes that over 20 institutions committed on day one.
Zero-fee stablecoin transfers were also announced at Sui Live Miami as coming soon, extending the network’s payments utility.
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