Sui · SUI
A fast layer-1 chain built for consumer apps and payments
A fast Move-based layer-1 where you must hold SUI for gas and roughly three-quarters of supply is staked — but it carries the generic-L1 narrative VCs expect to underperform, and monthly unlocks push supply up about 4% a quarter.
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SUI · a steady monthly unlock, and nothing to absorb it.
SUI is the native token of Sui Network, a layer-1 chain — ~4.05B circulating out of a hard cap of 10B, so roughly 59% of supply is still locked and unlocking on a published schedule into 2030.
Sell pressure. Supply grows in steady monthly steps of about 22M SUI. Three land in the next 90 days — Aug 1, Sep 1 and Oct 1 — for roughly 59M in vesting, plus a small ~7M staking subsidy that is mostly re-staked.
Buy pressure. Effectively none — there is no buyback and no quantified burn to absorb the new supply.
Net. About +1.6% to market over the next 90 days — supply heading up at a slow, steady pace set by the monthly unlock.
- August unlock step~22MAug 1 2026 · added to market
- September unlock step~22MSep 1 2026 · added to market
- October unlock step~22MOct 1 2026 · added to market
Sui pays a temporary staking subsidy each epoch that shrinks over time. Only about 7M reaches the tradable float over the next 90 days, and most of it is paid to stakers who re-stake rather than sell — so the open-market impact is small.
Locked SUI unlocks in steady monthly steps of about 22M. Three land in this window — Aug 1, Sep 1 and Oct 1 — for roughly 59M of vesting in total. The mix now leans to the community reserve and contributor allocations. This is the dominant sell-side force.
No off-calendar treasury release is dated in the window beyond the scheduled monthly steps above. The Foundation-controlled overhang — a community reserve of roughly 1.07B and the Mysten Labs treasury — releases only on the published calendar, so it is tracked but carried at zero here.
No bankruptcy estate or court distribution applies to SUI. The largest long-dated lock is a reserve of roughly 5.2B SUI — over half the 10B cap — that stays locked until after 2030 and does not touch the market in this window.
Sui runs no token buyback — there is no protocol or treasury program buying SUI back off the market.
Gas fees are paid to validators and storage fees flow into a perpetual storage fund rather than being burned. No fixed quantum of SUI is destroyed, so this is carried at zero — monitored.
No discretionary open-market buying by the foundation or treasury — monitored.
No new multi-year lock or escrow announced in the window beyond the existing vesting calendar. Most SUI is staked, but staking does not remove supply.
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