Layer1 blockchain community Sui is ending the month as one of many best-performing digital belongings, in response to CryptoSlate’s high gainers checklist.
Based on the checklist, SUI gained round 75% throughout the previous 30 days to submit a brand new all-time excessive of $1.64 on Jan. 30, surpassing its earlier excessive of $1.43. Nonetheless, its worth has declined 3.5% to $1.58 as of press time.
This value efficiency displays the general enhancements the community has loved for the reason that starting of the yr, permitting it to outperform main cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum throughout the reporting interval.
Sui DeFi metrics enhance.
The improved value follows Sui’s temporary entrance into the highest 10 decentralized finance (DeFi) initiatives when it comes to the entire worth of belongings locked (TVL).
Based on a Jan. 30 assertion shared with CryptoSlate, SUI’s TVL surged previous the $430 million milestone lower than a yr after its mainnet launch. The speedy enhance in Sui’s TVL is attributed to varied protocols and functions leveraging its energy, together with liquid staking platforms, decentralized exchanges, and lending protocols like Scallop Lend, Navi Protocol, and Cetus.
Greg Siourounis, Managing Director of the Sui Basis, mentioned:
“What we’re seeing in these numbers is builders on Sui [are] constructing merchandise that persons are utilizing to deal with real-world challenges. That dynamic will kind the premise of a sustainable decentralized community that lasts effectively into the long run.”

The TVL has now risen to $444m as of press time, but it surely now sits because the eleventh largest DeFi blockchain community, per DeFiLlama knowledge.
Along with the TVL progress, the community’s on-chain actions have exploded, with weekly DeFi quantity rising 1,200% since October 2023.
Regardless of these achievements, the protocol is poised for additional growth with co-founder Adeniyi Abiodun revealing that the community goals to introduce internet-less transactions earlier than the tip of the yr.
Notably, Abiodun’s disclosure aligns with an identical prediction made by Mysten Lab’s co-founder, Kostas Chalkias, who said:
“I predict that Sui will help internet-less transactions within the subsequent 12 months.”