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The Sui Smart Contracts Platform
Sui is a decentralized permissionless smart contract platform biased towards low-latency management of assets. It uses the Sui Move programming language to define assets as objects that may be owned by an address.
The Sui Smart Contracts Platform: Economics and Incentives
The Sui economy has been designed at the frontier of blockchain economic and incentives research. The overarching goal has been to implement an economic system aligning incentives across the various entities participating in the Sui ecosystem.
Additional research
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement
FastPay allows a set of distributed validators, some of which are Byzantine, to maintain a high-integrity and availability settlement system for pre-funded payments. This is not the protocol Sui uses, yet it proposes the basic safety mechanism that Sui extends.
Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus
Narwhal is a mempool protocol specializing in high-throughput reliable dissemination and storage of causal histories of transactions. Tusk is a zero-message overhead asynchronous consensus protocol that works with Narwhal.
Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version
Bullshark is the consensus engine that agrees on the specific order of data. Sui uses the partially synchronous version described in this paper.