From the Sui Grant Round 5 List: Understanding Sui's Ecosystem Strategy
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From the Sui Grant Round 5 List: Understanding Sui's Ecosystem Strategy
The 17 projects receiving the Sui Grant this time are dedicated to delivering products and services in core areas such as DeFi, payments, infrastructure, and oracles.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Xiao G San
Recently, the Sui Foundation announced that 17 projects have received $1.05 million in funding to build initiatives aimed at advancing the adoption and development of Sui.
Grants3 has reviewed these funded projects, which may help identify some patterns behind securing a Sui Grant.
The 17 projects receiving Sui Grants this round are focused on delivering products and services across core areas such as DeFi, payments, infrastructure, and oracles. Based on their on-chain deployment status, they can be divided into two categories: native Sui projects already integrated with the Sui blockchain, and non-native Sui projects supporting multiple blockchains including Sui.
Type 1: Native Sui Projects
(1) SuiScan
SuiScan is a Sui blockchain explorer developed by Staketab. Staketab is a comprehensive DeFi developer that previously built Minascan, the browser for Mina, and also offers liquid staking services and developer API solutions.
Website: https://suiscan.xyz
X followers: 2k+
Grants3 Comment: Blockchain explorers are essential during the early stages of any public chain, and chains must support leading third-party explorers within their ecosystem. SuiScan’s product is mature with a distinctive UI style. Although Sui already has an official explorer like SuiExplorer, third-party explorers still have opportunities to differentiate themselves in user interface design and user acquisition. This case illustrates how infrastructure-capable developers can strategically position themselves across ecosystems by providing foundational tools for various blockchains.
(2) Bushi
Bushi is a free third-person shooter game fully built on Unreal Engine 5, launched on the Sui mainnet and currently distributed via HyperPlay. It previously won the bronze award in the Gaming & AIGC category at the Sui x Kucoin Labs Summer Hackathon.
Website: https://www.playbushi.io/
X followers: 7k+
Grants3 Comment: Judging from the game's website and its X following of under 8k, the project remains in its early stages. This highlights Sui’s strong emphasis on gaming—projects with polished products deployed on the Sui mainnet stand a good chance of receiving a Sui Grant and broader ecosystem support.
(3) Crumb Finance
Crumb Finance is building a fully on-chain solution enabling users to dollar-cost average (DCA) into SUI and other assets available on Sui.
Website: http://crumb.finance
X followers: N/A
Grants3 Comment: The project’s website is inaccessible and no information is available on X. Based on its description, it is a DeFi application without significant innovation. However, the team may possess strong technical or industry background.
(4) FlowX Finance
FlowX Finance redefines user interaction with DeFi through a DAO-managed advanced exchange, DEX aggregator, yield mining, liquidity dashboard, and launchpad.
Website: https://flowx.finance/
X followers: 65k+
Grants3 Comment: This project provides foundational tools for DAOs and community pools, facilitating DeFi activities for other projects. It sits at the intersection of developer tools and DeFi. While similar models were common during DeFi Summer, FlowX demonstrates deep integration with Sui—evident in supported wallets, homepage content, and liquidity pool asset types—all tightly aligned with the Sui ecosystem.
(5) Sui Snap Wallet
Developed by Kuna Labs, Sui Snap Wallet allows MetaMask users to access the Sui network by installing a Snap extension directly into their MetaMask wallet.
Website: https://suisnap.com
X followers: NA
Grants3 Comment: The website is currently offline, likely due to ongoing development. As a MetaMask plugin, it enables seamless access to Sui from one of the most widely used EVM-compatible wallets. Since tools like Chainlist only support EVM-compatible chains, such plugins eliminate the need for users to download separate Sui wallets. These embedded wallet solutions cater well to specific user preferences and behaviors.
(6) Mole
Mole is a DeFi protocol offering savings, leveraged yields, and fund management services, along with products across different risk profiles—from stable and secure to high-risk, high-return options.
Website: https://mole.fi
X followers: 16k+
Grants3 Comment: Mole supports both Aptos and Sui, both Move-based chains, with a current TVL exceeding $50K, indicating an early-stage project. Its product focus appears more centered on Sui. For DeFi applications, achieving a meaningful TVL on Sui increases the likelihood of receiving grant support. Given the high degree of product homogeneity in DeFi, existing projects on other chains could consider expanding to Sui and converting organic traffic into TVL.
(7) NAVI Protocol
NAVI Protocol is a native liquidity protocol built on Sui, providing lending support for various assets including $SUI, $WETH, $WBTC, and stablecoins. The platform plans to add support for yield-generating LP tokens. NAVI previously won the gold award in the DeFi category at the Sui x Kucoin Labs Summer Hackathon.
Website: https://www.naviprotocol.io/
X followers: 21k+
Grants3 Comment: This project has received investment from Mysten Labs.
(8) NFC's on Sui
Built by CryptoCoders, NFC's on Sui integrates social events with on-chain assets, allowing communities to create engaging activities for new and existing audiences. By leveraging widely adopted NFC technology, it aims to onboard users into Web3 and bring Sui into the physical world.
Grants3 Comment: This project lacks a public website and is still in early development. Based on its description, it functions as a task-based engagement platform.
(9) Kuna Labs' Smart Contract SDK Generator
sui-client-gen is a code generator that produces TypeScript SDKs from Move smart contracts. It enhances type safety and significantly reduces boilerplate code required when interacting with smart contracts and retrieving on-chain objects.
Website: N/A
GitHub Link: https://github.com/kunalabs-io/sui-client-gen
X followers: N/A
(10) Movebit's Sui Contract Source Verifier
The Sui Contract Source Verifier allows users, auditors, and developers to upload source code and audit reports of Sui smart contracts to automatically verify alignment between on-chain bytecode and original source code.
Website: https://www.movebit.xyz
X followers: N/A
Grants3 Comment: Movebit is an auditing firm specializing in Move smart contracts. This case shows that technical middleware developed by third-party service providers can also qualify for grants.
(11) SuiOwls
SuiOwls provides tools and community platforms for the Sui ecosystem, including Discord sales bots, holder verification, presale and fundraising platforms, raffles, and auctions. It currently supports projects such as Fuddies and Cosmocadia.
Website: https://agora.owls.wiki
X followers: N/A
(12) Surf Wallet
Surf is a Payment 3.0 solution aiming to create an accessible crypto payment system for everyone. Its product suite includes CPoS (Crypto Point-of-Sale) for enterprises. SurfPay supports bill payments, subscription services, and one-click event access. Privacy is ensured through features like zkKYC (zero-knowledge KYC) and stealth transactions. Surf previously won the bronze award in the Infrastructure & Tools category at the Sui x Kucoin Labs Summer Hackathon.
Website: https://surf.tech/
X followers: 21k+
Grants3 Comment: The crypto payments sector represents a key Web3 onboarding gateway that every major blockchain seeks to capture. Each chain needs natively supported payment solutions.
Type 2: Multi-chain Projects Integrating Sui
(13) CoinBrain
CoinBrain is a popular multi-chain AMM/DEX analytics platform that also offers various developer tools such as free APIs, embedded widgets, and chatbots.
Website: https://coinbrain.com/
X followers: 9k+
Grants3 Comment: Productivity tools that reduce developer costs are highly favored across many blockchain ecosystems. Early-stage chains like Sui require abundant developer tooling, making such projects more likely to receive grant support.
(14) Indexer.xyz
Indexer.xyz is building a cross-chain NFT indexing solution that enables NFT applications to be rapidly developed and brought to market. It also aggregates NFT liquidity across chains, improving liquidity accessibility.
Website: https://www.indexer.xyz/
X followers: 1k+
Grants3 Comment: Cross-chain projects are ideally positioned to receive grants from multiple blockchains. Indexer.xyz already integrates with several chains including Near and Aptos. By supporting such projects, Sui enhances liquidity availability for its own NFT ecosystem.
(15) Scallop Tools
Scallop Tools is a DeFi protocol building a user-friendly money market that allows users to create programmable transaction blocks—single operations combining multiple transactions. It previously won a bronze award at the Sui x Kucoin Labs Summer Hackathon and supports both Sui and Solana.
Website: scallop.io
X followers: 65k+
(16) Stork
Stork has developed a hybrid oracle architecture powered by a decentralized network of data publishers and compatible with Sui. Prioritizing performance, it uses ultra-fast WebSockets to ensure data availability within milliseconds—similar to traditional finance trading data. Currently supports Arbitrum, Starknet, Ethereum, and others.
Website: https://www.stork.network/
X followers: 2k+
(17) Zeus
Zeus is building simplified, non-intrusive k8s node deployments that can run on any cloud provider via Kubernetes. Its user interface enables users to manage, build, customize applications, and deploy nodes with one click.
Website: https://www.zeus.fyi
X followers: N/A
Above are all the projects that received this round of Sui Grants. Next, we categorize them by sector:
It’s clear that Sui currently places strong emphasis on the DeFi sector, with five DeFi projects funded—this makes sense, as TVL is a key metric in a blockchain’s early stages, and DeFi directly contributes to it. Developer tools and middleware follow closely, with four projects funded. Other sectors are also represented.
Additionally, at least five of the funded projects previously won awards at the Sui x Kucoin Labs Summer Hackathon in July. For developers, participating in hackathons serves as an excellent entry point to securing grants.
Overall, this round of Sui Grants appears fairly conventional, focusing primarily on filling ecosystem gaps. We look forward to seeing more innovative Web3 products and paradigms emerge on Sui.
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