Sui Chinese Developers Criticize Foundation for Communication Breakdown

Sui Chinese builders have recently concentrated their public criticism on the foundation for a breakdown in communication with the Asia-Pacific executive team: when JSON-RPC was taken offline, popular wallets in the Asia-Pacific region such as OKX Wallet, OneKey, and Binance Wallet had not all been adapted, rendering some applications unusable; when developers questioned this in the group, they were told "the notification has been out for a long time, so it shouldn't be surprising."

Community builders stated that they have invested at least 200,000 RMB and significant time costs into education, co-learning, translation, incubation, and activities since launching independently online, but their efforts have not materialized into a stable organization. They attribute the issues to global strategies and regional resource asymmetries, regulatory restrictions on organizational methods in mainland China, inconsistencies in the core team's and regional team's judgments on Meme culture, and long-term low visibility and low returns for builders. Official flagship events are concentrated in Paris, Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, and Hong Kong; events in Shenzhen and Chengdu are often funded locally, with attendance ranging from dozens to hundreds, and rarely involve global releases or capital connections.

The Meme project PandaSui claimed to have contacted the foundation multiple times without a response, and was directly told at an event in Hong Kong that "Sui does not welcome Meme," before announcing a chain migration and snapshot. At the same time, some developers pointed out that the Asia-Pacific head had expressed non-support for Meme without fully reviewing the materials. In the venture capital circle, it is rumored that other institutions are more cautious in following up on projects that Mysten has invested in; the community has pointed out that the download numbers and promotional user counts are severely inconsistent, and projects that treat on-chain repeated recharges as income are said to have sold SUI after receiving funding, creating selling pressure, while honest developers lack exposure and must also deal with market conditions.

Third-party GitHub data indicates about 600 independent developers and over 180 full-time developers, a year-on-year decrease of approximately 55%. Mainnet records include over two hours of interruption in November 2024, about six to seven hours of consensus stagnation in January 2026, and several short-term failures in May. The Chinese-speaking community is questioning who is responsible for the feedback channels and comparing it to the relatively autonomous contributors and bounty systems in the Solana Chinese-speaking community, demanding a community-led organization rather than a completely top-down approach. The foundation subsequently arranged a Chinese dialogue, stating that they have heard the concerns.

In terms of market mechanisms, what is bought are institutional narratives, stablecoins, and headquarters technology routes such as anti-quantum, while what is sold is grassroots liquidity and local organizational costs in the Chinese-speaking community. Funding and activity budgets flow towards the Singapore-Hong Kong axis and the foundation's investment portfolio, while the mainland side is more about controllable risks. The beneficiaries are headquarters that require brand safety and Wall Street narratives; the pressured side consists of builders who self-fund activities and rely on Meme and small to medium DApps to survive. Once trust is priced based on "attitude," grants and RPC upgrades will be interpreted as expulsion signals.

Supplement: Mysten Labs, Sui Foundation, Asia-Pacific team, DevRel, and outsourcing are not the same decision-making entities, which is a structure acknowledged by multiple parties and the source of the "no one can be held accountable" system.

Source: Public Information