Sui (SUI)

Are $SUI and $SEI really building in Privacy?

It seems at first that this is just for the Privacy tag.

Just like every project wanted to be tagged AI or RWA in 2023.

Privacy is that tag for 2026.

But not every project chasing the tag is doing it the same way. One of them is making a promise. The other is collecting on one it made two years ago.

🔵 Sui spent years selling speed. Object-centric design, parallel execution, sub-second finality, all built to make Sui the chain that does everything faster than Solana.

In June, it dropped Confidential Transfers on Devnet. Balances and transfer amounts hidden.

> Addresses still fully visible.
> Testnet is still months away.

It is a serious piece of engineering, but right now it is a press release with a roadmap attached.

🔴 Sei never tried to be everything. It built for traders, and traders bleed money to MEV every single day the mempool stays public.

So Sei plugged into Secret Network's confidential compute back in 2024, two years before Sui even said the wo

The $SUI blockchain went down. No one lost a cent.

Kostas Chalkias (@kostascrypto), co-founder of the team behind Sui, on why that wasn't luck, it was the design:

"The ideal option is to halt, compared to just losing money if something else happens."

"Some of us come from Facebook. Back then the motto was move fast, break things. I don't believe in that here. Not with money."

"If it was another blockchain, without these brains behind it, I don't believe they'd recover in days."

The instinct everywhere else in tech is to stay live at all costs. In financial infrastructure, the braver call is knowing when to stop.

Full conversation in the post.

The $SUI blockchain went down. No one lost a cent.

Kostas Chalkias (@kostascrypto), co-founder of the team behind Sui, on why that wasn't luck, it was the design:

"The ideal option is to halt, compared to just losing money if something else happens."

"Some of us come from Facebook. Back then the motto was move fast, break things. I don't believe in that here. Not with money."

"If it was another blockchain, without these brains behind it, I don't believe they'd recover in days."

The instinct everywhere else in tech is to stay live at all costs. In financial infrastructure, the braver call is knowing when to stop.

Full conversation in the post.