Sui Research | Whitepapers and Journal Articles

Research Papers

Sui is a decentralized permissionless smart contract platform biased towards low-latency management of assets. It uses the Move programming language to define assets as objects that may be owned by an address.

Tokenomics Whitepaper

The Sui Smart Contracts Platform: Economics and Incentives

The Sui economy has been designed at the frontier of blockchain economic and incentives research. The overarching goal has been to implement an economic system aligning incentives across the various entities participating in the Sui ecosystem.

Additional Research

Cryptography

Security

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement

FastPay allows a set of distributed validators, some of which are Byzantine, to maintain a high-integrity and availability settlement system for pre-funded payments. This is not the protocol Sui uses, yet it proposes the basic safety mechanism that Sui extends.

Submitted on 25 Mar 2020

Cryptography

Security

Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus

Narwhal is a mempool protocol specializing in high-throughput reliable dissemination and storage of causal histories of transactions. Tusk is a zero-message overhead asynchronous consensus protocol that works with Narwhal.

Submitted on 25 Mar 2020

Distributed

Parallel

Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version

Bullshark is the consensus engine that agrees on the specific order of data. Sui uses the partially synchronous version described in this paper.

Submitted on 25 Mar 2020

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Research Papers

Additional Research

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement

Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus

Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version