Author: DWF Ventures, Translation: Golden Finance xiaozou

Public chains Aptos and Sui are rapidly gaining attention, and the upcoming Movement is also showing significant growth on the testnet.

These three public chains all use the Move language, but what are the real differences between them?

Let’s take a closer look below.

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1. Architecture

Both Aptos and Movement are linear blockchains, meaning blocks are arranged sequentially and state is updated incrementally through batched transactions.

The DAG structure on Sui is like an interconnected network of nodes, where transactions can reach consensus independently, ensuring high throughput.

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2. Consensus and TTF

All chains use some form of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocol.

AptosBFT improves efficiency by having nodes communicate only with ldader (leader rotation is done by voting).

Sui’s Mysticeti allows a single validator to sign a block and appoint multiple leaders, allowing more transactions to be submitted to each block.

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These mechanisms affect the chain’s TTF (the time it takes for a transaction signal to reach the final state from the beginning of broadcasting), among which Sui’s average TTF is around 0.5 seconds, which is the fastest.

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3. Transaction Processing and TPS (Transactions Per Second)

All chains use parallel execution, allowing conflict-free transactions to be processed simultaneously.

Aptos and Movement use the Block-STM optimistic parallel execution engine, which assumes that all transactions are executable in parallel and re-executes in the event of an erroneous transaction.

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Sui uses a state access method that sorts transactions according to their transaction objects, ensuring that transactions can run without conflicts after being successfully verified by the verifier.

As a result, Sui is able to process transactions more efficiently without the need for re-execution, thereby reducing hardware load to increase TPS.

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Aptos has been running for a long time and has more ecosystem projects than Sui and Movement.

All chains have done a lot of solid work on builder support and funding programs that may lead to significant growth in the coming months.

In conclusion, DWF Investment believes that the Move ecosystem will continue to grow rapidly, and we are excited to see more further developments. Projects building within the Move ecosystem are welcome to contact us at any time.