Developer Publicly Criticizes SUI Foundation's Arrogance Leading to Ecological Loss
0xarthur stated that Cyn, the head of the SUI Foundation for the Asia-Pacific region, refused to communicate with ecological builders and directly vetoed the IDO platform transformation plan before the Slush event in Hong Kong, saying "the Sui chain does not welcome or support memes."
He pointed out that the SUI Foundation recently took down the JSON RPC underlying protocol without prior notice or assistance for developers to migrate, and a foundation employee responded in the community, "You shouldn't be so surprised," reflecting a disconnection with the community.
In contrast to the SOL Foundation chairman's global outreach and communication with developers, SUI is criticized for being "out of touch": despite advanced technology, trust has collapsed, developers are gradually leaving, TVL continues to decline, and community governance is chaotic.
Source: Public Information
ABAB AI Insight
After the SUI Foundation's mainnet launch in 2023, it attracted developers with the narrative of "Move language + high TPS." The 2024 Cetus DEX hack compensation incident had established a reputation for a "responsible ecosystem," but repeated communication breakdowns and arrogant decision-making in 2025-2026 led to a loss of trust among developers.
Similar cases can be compared to the Solana Foundation chairman personally communicating after multiple outages in 2021, and the Terra collapse in 2022 where community warnings were ignored—reflecting the "trust vulnerability" of Layer 1 public chains: technical advantages cannot compensate for governance flaws, and once the community feels "abandoned," funds and talent will migrate quickly.
On the capital path, SUI chose a "technology-first + marketing-driven" model: in 2025, it invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising, but the conversion rate was extremely low ("110 fans"), while neglecting the maintenance of developer toolchains (JSON RPC taken down, missing documentation), forming a structural contradiction of "burning money externally while bleeding internally."
Essentially, this belongs to the "loss of ecological niche" in the reconstruction of the industrial chain: public chains are shifting from "technical competition" to "governance competition," with the mechanism-level reason being that the decision-making weight for developers choosing chains has shifted from "TPS/fees" to "response speed/communication efficiency," and the SUI Foundation has failed to adapt to this paradigm shift.
ABAB News · Laws of Cognition
- No matter how advanced the technology, arrogance can kill an ecosystem.
- The endgame of public chains is not TPS, but whether developers are willing to stay.
- When you abandon the community, the community is already ready to abandon you.