Sui Network Skyrockets 54% in Developer Growth – Now Solana’s Most Formidable Challenger

Sui just pulled off a stunner—developer activity on the network exploded by 54% in a single quarter, putting it neck-and-neck with Solana for blockchain mindshare.

The new dev hotspot? Sui’s attracting coders like VC money to a vaporware pitch, thanks to its parallel execution tech that actually scales (take notes, Ethereum).

Why Solana should sweat: While Sui’s TVL still trails, that developer surge suggests the 'Solana killer' narrative isn’t just hype—for once. TradFi analysts remain skeptical, of course, muttering about 'network effects' between sips of overpriced CBDC lattes.

• Sui Network sees a 54% surge in developer growth, emerging as a strong Layer-1 rival to Solana, per Electric Capital.
• Ranks among the top 5 Layer-1 blockchains by developer count, with 16.1% year-over-year growth in full-time contributors.
• The Sui ecosystem supports 140+ dApps and boasts a $10.3B market cap, placing it in the top 15 cryptocurrencies globally.

Sui Network is quickly becoming the leading challenger to solana in the Layer-1 blockchain space, with an explosive 54% developer growth over the past couple of years, as cited in the recent Electric Capital Developer Report. While the larger crypto space is laboring with falling developer interest, Sui is bucking the trend and doing this at scale.

According to the @ElectricCapital report, sui has:

🌱 16.1% YoY growth in full-time contributors
📊 54% growth over 2 years – highest among top L1s
🏆 Top 5 in total devs among L1s

And it’s just getting started.

The blockchain today, which is Move-based, is one of the top five Layer-1 networks with the most developers. At a time when even experienced players like ethereum and other EVM-based chains have seen the number of developers decline by over 20%, Sui’s year-over-year full-time contributor growth by 16.1% is an impressive anomaly.

Second only to Solana with a growth rate of 17.7%, the duo is now level with the top in the Layer-1 dominance. The Electric Capital report reveals that the token experienced a 28% GitHub contribution increase over the past 90 days. Even the developer activity increased further in recent weeks, with code commits increasing by nearly 40%, a reflection of enormous momentum in building protocols and the growth of an ever-expanding ecosystem.

A large contributor to this growth has been the network Foundation’s emphasis on funding tooling and poaching developers from other platforms. Developers are concentrating on infrastructure building at the core, optimizing the decentralized and object-centric data model unique to the platform, increasing the speed of transactions, and improving validator coordination.

Sui’s architectural advantage is its parallel execution engine, a distinguishing factor from ordinary blockchains that execute transactions one after the other. This enables the reduction of congestion and the possibility for high throughput, gaining applications in microtransactions, NFTs, and blockchain gaming.

Sui Hits $10.4 Billion Market Cap with 140+ dApps

Sui’s infrastructure today hosts over 140 decentralized applications and has facilitated hundreds of millions of transactions since its mainnet release. Sui’s market cap is over $10.3 billion, as per CoinMarketCap, a figure that puts it solidly in the top 15 cryptocurrencies. Its trading volume within the last 24 hours reached a volume higher than $1.3 billion, another testament to its increasingly significant role in the market.

Sam Blackshear, CTO at Mysten Labs and one of the designers of Sui, pointed to the strength of the network’s growth against a larger 20% decline in crypto devs worldwide. Here we see that every large EVM-compatible Layer-1 is in negative developer growth right now, illustrating how Sui and Solana are exceptions to the rule.

Sui highlights from EC mid-year dev stats refresh:

– Sui is the 2nd fastest growing L1 dev community over the last year at 16.1% — just a hair behind Solana at 17.7%.
– Sui is the fastest growing L1 dev community over the last two years at 54%
– This goes against broader growth… https://t.co/0ybThX3dOW

This increased activity is monitored more closely than ever. Electric Capital, famous for its detailed year-end reports, now publishes its data weekly, providing up-to-the-minute insights into blockchain development trends within Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and newer chains such as Sui. Since the year 2019, just over 4,000 commits by around 950 contributors have been channeled into its healthy database.

With continued contributions in a wide range of repositories, the report predicts the long-term success of the token. With continued developer activity increasingly a valuable indicator for determining blockchain health, the steady growth of token positions places it within a privileged category of platforms that are planning for the future.