This blog post provides a gentle introduction to Sui, a new Move-based blockchain. We compare Sui with Aptos and highlight some important differences for deveopers to know, especially for secure smart contract development.
Introduction
Sui is a proof-of-stake smart contract blockchain platform targeting the Move↗ language. Sui is unique in that each object has its own ledger and transactions don’t necessarily have to be in sequence. This is claimed to be a breakthrough optimization and has important implications on object handling on the Sui blockchain.
The Move language used on the Sui blockchain was originally developed at Facebook as part of the Libra blockchain (later Diem). That project was discontinued, and the team that made it split into two groups making Sui↗ and Aptos