Sui (SUI)
Unlock Schedule
Sui (SUI) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The chart shows gross modeled releases of every allocation: vesting unlocks, new issuance and reserve distributions, each allocation counted once. These have different meanings; a scheduled release is not evidence that tokens entered circulation or were sold. Review the coverage, sources and assumptions below.
Each color segment in the chart corresponds to a specific allocation group described in the Allocations section below. Underlying assumptions and data models used to reconstruct this schedule are explained in detail under Assumptions, while broader utility insights and token use cases are covered in Tokenomics & Utility.
Tokenomics & Utility
What SUI does
SUI has a maximum supply of 10 billion tokens. A portion entered circulation when mainnet launched, with other tokens scheduled for release over time. The Sui Foundation’s Community Reserve was allocated more than half of the total supply for uses including grants, research, validator support, and staking subsidies. (sui.io)
The token has several jobs. Users pay network gas fees in SUI when they submit transactions or run application code. Holders can delegate tokens to validators and receive staking rewards under the network’s rules. SUI also serves as an asset that applications can transfer and use in their own transactions. Network plans describe a role for token holders in governance, while development proposals provide another route for community input. (sui.io)
Sui’s fee system accounts for both computation and data storage. Part of the cost of placing data on the network goes into a storage fund, which is designed to help cover the long-term work of maintaining that data. This matters for applications that create large numbers of objects, such as games or collectible platforms. (sui.io)
Assumptions
All 10 billion SUI were created at genesis; later supply releases make existing tokens available rather than minting more. The initial allocation covers the Community Reserve, early contributors, investors, the Mysten Labs treasury and community access, while a reserve subset funds PoS staking subsidies. The Foundation publishes an aggregate monthly circulation plan, but the sources do not reliably assign its monthly amounts to those individual budgets or fully date grants and other deployments. The dated chart can establish the genesis issuance; the remaining budgets and epoch-based subsidy rule are retained without invented calendar releases.
- Community Reserve: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Early Contributors: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Backers and Investors: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Mysten Labs Treasury: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Community Access Program and App Testers: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- PoS Validator and Staker Subsidies: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
- Liquid Staking Protocol Support: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- MovEx DeepBook Grant: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Reclaimed Market-Maker Ecosystem Funds: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- 1. https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui/blob/main/crates/sui-framework/packages/sui-framework/sources/sui.move
- 2. https://www.sui.io/token-schedule
- 3. https://www.sui.io/blog/sui-token-allocation
- 4. https://www.sui.io/networkinfo
- 5. https://www.sui.io/blog/staking-sui-circulating-supply
- 6. https://www.sui.io/blog/understanding-sui-token-supply
- 7. https://www.sui.io/blog/token-release-schedule
- 8. https://sui-circulation.suiexplorer.com/api/sui_circulation
- 9. https://docs.sui.io/paper/tokenomics.pdf
- 10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2060703/000199937126003565/sui-424b3_021726.htm
- 11. https://www.sui.io/blog/liquid-staking-token-delegation
- 12. https://www.sui.io/press-center?e8758085_page=20
Allocations
Not yet scheduled: 5,881,729,552.36 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.