Exploring the Ex-Apple Engineer Led Sui Network

The Defiant

Mar 11, 2024•55 min

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Episode description

Evan Cheng is the Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs, which is the team behind Sui Network. In their words, Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform "designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible". In our conversation we explore the potential of this up and coming Layer 1 by learning about the underlying motivation of the founder, what makes it different from other blockchains, in particular Aptos, the current main uses cases, and more.

0:00 Intro

1:06 Who is Evan Cheng

8:32 Why Web2 doesn't work

12:05 Lessons from building Libra

15:46 Sui vs Other Layer 1s

27:11 Modular Blockchains

28:50 Sui Use Cases

33:51 Challenges of usng Move

36:43 Future of DeFi

44:00 Bull Market 2024

46:12 Incentive Program on Sui

51:30 Future of Blockchains