Programs & Funding
Programs
Elevate your project with accelerator programs, strategic guidance, and deep ecosystem insight. Whether you're raising funds, growing users, or boosting traction — Sui provides the support to scale with purpose.
Join a program designed to help early-stage founders launch, grow, and raise on Sui.
We know fundraising can be one of the toughest parts of building. That’s why we focus on connecting serious founders with meaningful, long-term support - not grants.
Academic Research Awards
If you're doing research that pushes forward the science or security of blockchain tech, you can apply for the $25k research award through this program.
Direct Investment from Sui Foundation
For high-impact projects aligned with Sui’s long-term goals, the Foundation may make direct, strategic investments—typically in teams building core primitives or ecosystem-wide apps.
Request for Proposals (RFPs)
Apply to solve specific technical or ecosystem challenges that the Sui Foundation is actively funding.
Sui proudly partners with investors who support our ecosystem. The following funds publicly back Sui builders:
Sui celebrates the growth of its builders. Highlighting recent, successful fundraises by ecosystem teams:
Ika
Raised over $21 million in funding and a peak private valuation of $600M FDV. Working to build the fattest parallel MPC network.
Node Capital, Amplify Partners, Liquid2 Ventures, FalconX, Tykhe Block Ventures, Lightshift, Token Bay Capital, Collider, Zero Knowledge Ventures, NoLimit Holdings, Rubik Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Insignius Capital, Impatient Ventures, Cerulean Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, HDI Ventures, Flowdesk, TPC Ventures, Purechain Capital, Solr DAO, Heroic Ventures, Naval Ravikant, NotVCs, G-20 Group, Artifact Capital, DSRV, Encapsulate, Sui Foundation and many more.
Bluefin
Raised $17 million from a group of major venture firms and trading companies. Building a decentralized trading platform.
Tower Research, and Wintermute.
Momentum
Raised a strategic funding round valued at $100 million. The round was led by OKX Ventures and included participation from key investors.
Gate Ventures, MEXC Ventures, and KuCoin Ventures.
Suilend
Raised $6 million in a Seed funding round led by Robot Ventures with participation from key investors.
Zhuoxun Yin, Mechanism Capital, Mert Mumtaz, DCF GOD, Bodhi Ventures, Karatage, Mr Block, Comma3 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Will Price, Big Brain Holdings, and others.
Talus Network
Raised $6 million in strategic funding led by Polychain Capital at a $150 million valuation. Building a high-throughput blockchain protocol designed for decentralized agents.
Echo, Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, Sentient core contributor and Symbolic Capital co-founder Kenzi Wang, 0G Labs CEO Michael Heinrich, Allora Labs CEO Nick Emmons and Nuffle Labs co-founder Altan Tutar.
DoubleUp
Raised $4 million in a Seed funding round led by Karatage.
Four Pillars, Alpha DAO, Auros, Mysten Labs.
Scallop Protocol
Raised $3 million co-led by CMS Holding and 6th Man Venture. Building a lending and borrowing protocol.
Oak Grove Ventures, Side Door Ventures, UOB Venture Management, Signum Capital, Cypher Capital, Mysten Labs, Kyros Ventures, Criterion, 8186 Capital, 7UpDao, LBank Labs, ViaBTC, Cetus Protocol, AC Capital, and Zellic.
Printr
Raised $2.5 million in the firm's first financing round, from Sfermion, Draper Dragon, Bitscale, Hermeneutic, Sui Foundation, Axelar Foundation and Flow Foundation.
Hermeneutic, Sui Foundation, Axelar Foundation and Flow Foundation.
Navi Protocol
Raised $2 million to expand its innovative all-in-one lending, borrowing and LSDeFi platform. The funding round was co-led by OKX Ventures, dao5 and Hashed, with participation from other notable investors.
GeekCartel Capital, Nomad Capital, Coin98 Ventures, Cetus Protocol, Maverick, Viabtc, Assembly Partners, Gate.io, Hailstone Labs, Benqi, LBank Labs and Mysten Labs.
Haedal
Successfully completed its seed round funding, with participation from industry-renowned investors.
Animoca Ventures, Sui Foundation, Flow Traders, Dewhales Capital, Cetus, Scallop, etc.
Nemo
Successfully closed an ecosystem funding round led by Comma3 Ventures, with participation from many other investors.
Scallop, Bucket, Aftermath, AlphaFi and Sui Foundation.
Ferra
Raised $2 million pre-seed round led by Comma3 Ventures and Arche Fund (the investment arm of Coin98).
Sui Network, Arche Fund, Antora Tech, Cetus Protocol, Navi Protocol, Haedal Protocol, Suilend Protocol
Printr
Raised an additional $2< in a seed extension round, bringing its total funding to $4.5 million.
Mantle EcoFund, Mirana Ventures, L1D, Sfermion, and Flowdesk, Arche Fund
Magma Finance
Raised $6 million in strategic funding to build an adaptive liquidity engine. Backed by high-conviction partners: HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures.
SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures.
Webacy
Successfully closed a new round of funding with key investors like GSR_io and Sui Network.
Mozilla Ventures, gmjp, DGDV, Balaji Srinivasan, Sebastien Borget.
Bluefin acquired 7K's aggregator backend technology. Through the partnership, Bluefin launched Bluefin7K - a Sui-native aggregator that routes through a network of DEXs and Bluefin’s RFQ engine, offering users the best rates and the deepest liquidity on Sui Network.
Navi Protocol announced the acquisition of Volo, a premier liquid staking service provider.
Bluefin acquired a significant stake in @insidex_trade - the all-in-one trading terminal on Sui.
Sui builders drive growth through wallet campaigns and strategic partnerships. Explore their success stories:
Want to know which projects are getting the most traction? Or who you should be learning from?
Top Projects by Ecosystem Impact
See which apps are gaining traction across DeFi, tools, NFTs, and more.
Live Mainnet Leaderboard
View real-time data on the most active and successful apps on Sui.
Top Builders on X (GiveRep Leaderboard)
Discover the top voices shaping Sui's community and development.
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