Sui Price
Sui is a smart-contract platform that models the world as objects rather than accounts. On most chains, a token balance is a number in one shared table that everybody's transactions queue up to edit. On Sui, your coin or your NFT is a distinct object that you…
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Key market insights
A plain-language read of live indicators computed from daily closes — these describe current price behaviour, not a forecast.
Technical analysis
Moving averages, momentum and support/resistance from daily closing prices — a snapshot of current structure, not a forecast.
Historical performance
52-week high and low with trailing returns across time windows. Computed from up to 365 daily closes.
Automated observations
Generated mechanically from current market data (volatility, trend, distance from highs) — descriptive, not advice.
Strengths · tailwinds
- Live price, market cap and supply all resolve cleanly from source data.
Risks · headwinds
- Annualised volatility of 87% — large day-to-day swings.
- Price is below the 50-day average, which sits below the 200-day — a classic downtrend alignment.
- Trading 84% below its 52-week high — well off recent peaks.
Supply structure
Sui has no fixed maximum supply. Circulating supply is a curated estimate used to derive market cap.
Sui derivatives
Live perpetual-swap metrics. Funding is the periodic payment between longs and shorts; open interest is the total value of outstanding contracts. Informational — not a recommendation to trade leveraged products.
Source: Binance Futures · funding shown per 8h and annualised. Leveraged products carry high risk; informational only.
What the markets price for Sui
Implied probabilities from live Polymarket prediction markets that mention Sui. Each figure is the market-priced chance of the outcome resolving Yes — a crowd forecast, not ours.
Source: Polymarket · probabilities reflect current market prices and change continuously. Shown for context only — not a forecast, endorsement or financial advice.
Convert Sui to US Dollar
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About Sui
Sui is a smart-contract platform that models the world as objects rather than accounts. On most chains, a token balance is a number in one shared table that everybody's transactions queue up to edit. On Sui, your coin or your NFT is a distinct object that you own outright, which lets the network work out which transactions genuinely conflict with each other and which do not. SUI is the native token, used for fees, for staking and for paying the network's storage costs.
That model changes what actually needs agreement. A transaction touching only objects you own — sending a coin to a friend, say — can be confirmed by validators without going through full consensus ordering, because nobody else could be editing it. Transactions touching shared objects, such as a trading pool, take the slower consensus path instead. Contracts are written in Move, a language designed so that assets cannot be accidentally copied or destroyed.
In practice the chain aims at consumer software: games, social apps, NFT marketplaces, wallets and the usual <a href="/glossary/defi/">DeFi</a> venues. Some of the more interesting work is in onboarding — an application can sponsor a user's gas so a newcomer need not acquire the token first, and sign-in can be built on credentials people already have. Staking works by delegating SUI to a <a href="/glossary/validator/">validator</a> rather than running hardware yourself.
The caveats are the ones any younger chain carries. Move has fewer experienced developers and fewer battle-tested libraries than the Ethereum toolchain, so audit quality varies widely and <a href="/glossary/smart-contract/">smart contract</a> risk is real rather than theoretical. Validator hardware requirements are demanding. As with most newer networks, part of the supply is released on a vesting schedule, so more tokens can reach the market over time, and liquidity is thinner than on long-established chains.
Sui vs peers
| Coin | Price | 24h | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sui SUI | $0.7139 | +0.46% | $2.21B |
| BNB BNB | $569.67 | +0.91% | $79.75B |
| XRP XRP | $1.10 | +0.85% | $63.82B |
| Solana SOL | $74.41 | +0.76% | $35.34B |
| TRON TRX | $0.3315 | +0.30% | $28.71B |
| Monero XMR | $362.66 | -0.12% | $6.69B |
Sui FAQ
What does the object model change for me as a user?
Mostly speed and cost for simple actions. Because a straightforward transfer only involves objects you own, it does not have to wait its turn behind unrelated activity, so it can settle quickly even when the network is busy. Interacting with shared things — a decentralised exchange pool, an auction — still requires full ordering, so those transactions behave more like they would elsewhere.
What is Move and why does Sui use it?
Move is a programming language built specifically for handling digital assets. It treats a token as a resource that cannot be silently duplicated or thrown away, which rules out a family of bugs that have cost people money on other platforms. The trade-off is familiarity: fewer developers know it than know Solidity, and there is less existing, heavily reviewed code to build on.
What is SUI used for?
It pays transaction fees, it is staked with validators to secure the network and earn rewards, and it covers storage — part of what you pay when data is written on chain goes into a fund, with some of it refundable when that data is deleted. Governance participation is tied to staked SUI as well, so staking is how holders get a say.
Do I need to hold SUI before using an app on Sui?
Not always. The network supports sponsored transactions, meaning an application can pay the gas on your behalf, and some apps use sign-in methods that do not require setting up a wallet first. It is a genuinely friendlier on-ramp than most chains offer. You will still need the token for anything the app does not sponsor, and for staking.
How does staking SUI work?
You delegate to a validator from your wallet and keep ownership of the tokens throughout. Rewards accumulate across network epochs and the validator takes a commission. Withdrawing is not instant — stake is released at an epoch boundary rather than on demand. If the distinction between this and mining is still unclear, <a href="/learn/mining-vs-staking-explained/">mining versus staking explained</a> covers it.
What are the honest risks of using a younger network?
Contract risk is higher when fewer libraries have been stress-tested and fewer auditors specialise in the language. Ecosystems this age also see projects appear and vanish, so due diligence on individual apps matters more than the chain's own quality. On the token side, scheduled unlocks add supply over time and thinner liquidity means sharper price swings in both directions.
Last updated Jul 25, 2026