Sui is a unique public chain. The uniqueness lies in some details.

For example, Sui gives grants to many project parties in U.S. dollars rather than its own tokens; Sui will strictly require brand isolation between the project parties that receive the grants and Sui officials; Sui has clearly stated its direction of vigorously entering the gaming track, and is ready to work closely with multiple major gaming companies... Sui has three very obvious characteristics.

1. The first characteristic of Sui is its focus on the gaming track.

Adeniyi, one of the co-founders, said in an interview with Grayscale this month: "We chose the gaming industry because it is usually the earliest adopter of technology and drives the development of AI and high-performance computing. Therefore, Sui focuses on solving the ownership issues in games and has successfully attracted a large number of game developers to join, including South Korea's three major listed companies Nhan Net, Marble, FNC and NCSoft. Currently, there are about 75 publishers developing applications on Sui." At this time a year ago, Sui had only signed 30 development studios.

The same is true for CEO Evan Cheng. He has mentioned SuiPlay, a gaming device launched by Sui, more than once in tweets and video conversations. In recent weeks, both SuiPlay and the top meme FUD on Sui have promised rewards and airdrops to SuiPlay holders.

2. Sui’s second characteristic is that he attaches great importance to compliance, even to the point of being a little abnormal.

Web3 itself advocates a decentralized and permissionless culture, and most Web3 organizations do not pay attention to compliance. But Sui is an exception.

A practitioner close to Mysten Labs said that the internal compliance process of Mysten Labs is very strict, and even feels a bit like a Web2 giant.

Another entrepreneur in the Sui ecosystem said: “I was very surprised that Sui granted the project party U.S. dollars instead of Sui tokens.” “In addition, Sui officials require cumbersome and complicated documents, KYC, accounts, etc., and it often takes a long time to get the grant.”

Almost every person in the Sui ecosystem I meet will tell me about this distinctive feature of Sui: its emphasis on compliance.

After chatting with many Sui practitioners, I learned that this may be closely related to Sui's strategic direction. One practitioner said that he believes that for those projects officially approved by Sui, such as Cetus, Scallop, etc., you don't have to worry about running away, Sui will cover the bottom.

This is completely different from the strategies of many public chains. For example, Blast explicitly told users that it would not be responsible for any problems with any project in the ecosystem. Sui and Blast are two extremes in two directions. Blast is completely irresponsible, and Sui's strict requirements for compliance have also left some developers with an impression: as long as it is a project officially recognized by Sui, users should not worry too much about rug.

Behind this lies a major strategic issue.

3. This strategic issue is also the third characteristic of Sui. Sui’s goal is to focus on cooperating with large Web2 institutions to achieve Mass Adoption.

Many traditional large organizations are not allowed to cooperate with tainted organizations. This is something that must be done in many large organizations in the traditional world.

This also explains some phenomena, such as Sui and his three founders have almost no habit of CX Meme, which seems out of place. Because both Base founder Jesse and Solana founder Toly have been guiding and supporting Meme culture. Sui will not or rarely does so. Sui does not want his behavior to appear in a way that may be a stain on traditional institutions, thereby affecting his chances of working with large institutions.

Sui is a very special public chain with a very clear goal, which is very different from many public chains that are all over the place or have no clear differentiated development direction at all.

Sui is about cooperating with major Web2 institutions; Sui is about concentrating its efforts on developing games; Sui is about being the most compliant public chain.

Sui, a unique public chain, a public chain with a clear direction.