Mysten Labs, the Sui Development Team, Proposes a Vision for a Unified Global Value Network
The Sui development team, Mysten Labs, stated that its long-term goal is to build underlying blockchain infrastructure that supports the flow of global value over the next decade, enabling efficient payments, financial asset transfers, and transactions between machines and AI agents on a single network. The core idea is to "let value flow as freely as information."
Technically, Sui relies on an object model, horizontal scaling architecture, and native parallel execution to achieve high throughput and low latency within a single network. Simple transfers can bypass consensus for quick confirmation, and privacy transactions, gasless transfers, and yield-bearing asset mechanisms are introduced to lower end-user costs and support stablecoins, real assets, and institutional-level financial products on-chain.
Mysten Labs claims that the future financial system will gradually migrate to public chain infrastructure, achieving comprehensive digitization from personal payments to institutional capital markets, extending to AI-driven automated trading scenarios. The unified value network being constructed aims to reconstruct the flow of funds into an instant, low-cost model similar to "messaging," allowing human users, machines, and intelligent agents to connect capital and liquidity on the same settlement layer.
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From historical behavior, the team at Mysten Labs comes from the Meta Diem and Novi wallet projects, which previously attempted to provide global payment infrastructure for underserved populations through the Diem chain and Move language. Now, they continue the technical route of "high throughput + secure asset representation" on Sui, shifting from a single stablecoin system to a more general global value layer, which aligns with Diem's vision of becoming a cross-border payment clearing network, now in a fully public chain form.
In terms of capital pathways, Sui's object model and parallel execution capabilities provide a technical foundation for high-frequency payments, DeFi, and micro-payments between machines. Mysten Labs aims to guide incremental funds from speculative DeFi yields to longer-term on-chain payment tracks and asset securitization tracks through stablecoins, real assets, and yield-bearing asset mechanisms. This suggests that in the future, some payment rates, clearing fees, and asset custody yields may gradually shift from traditional card organizations and custodial banks to public chains and their ecosystem operators that control the settlement layer and storage fee mechanisms.
In industry comparisons, Sui aims to act as a "high-speed settlement network in the value layer" and a "payment base for AI agents," resembling a combination of "crypto version of Visa + Swift + message queue," rather than a single smart contract platform. The object model supports high-concurrency low-value transactions, while privacy and gasless experiences cater to C-end payments, and institutional-level assets and RWAs correspond to capital market demands. This multi-layer coverage strategy is similar to the functional split of Ethereum's L2 ecosystem but attempts to achieve synergy on a single L1, positioning itself in direct competition with Solana's "single high-performance state machine" and Ethereum's "multi-Rollup collaboration" paths.
Structurally, this vision essentially bets on the long-term change of "pricing power shifting from financial intermediary ledgers to public settlement layer protocols": once large-scale payments, asset transfers, and settlements between AI agents migrate to a unified public chain, the fee structure, clearing speed, and credit division across entities will no longer be dominated by a single bank or card organization but will be determined by the resource pricing, congestion levels, and governance of public chain protocols. The profits of traditional intermediaries will be increasingly compressed to entry and compliance service fees, while public chains and their validators will capture greater value through gas, storage fees, and infrastructure revenue sharing.
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