Sui Dev Newsletter #3

Sui Developer Newsletter (#3)

February 14, 2024 💘🌹💝🍫

Roses are red, violets are blue,
In the realm of love, as in blockchain, too.
A bond so secure, and genuinely spry,
In matters of heart, don't trust, verify.

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Welcome to the third edition of the Sui Developer Newsletter!

We're pleased to announce Sui Basecamp, the inaugural global conference for the Sui ecosystem that will take place April 10–11 in Paris, France. Sui developer newsletter subscribers can register with the code sui-devnewsletter-50 for 50% off a standard pass. Looking forward to seeing many of you at this event.

We are also excited to welcome the launch of Sui RPC 2.0. At a high level, RPC 2.0 is a re-architecture and rewrite of Sui’s read, write, and subscription support. While the goal is to eventually replace the old JSON-RPC, today we are at the point where an initial MVP of RPC 2.0 is run by Mysten Labs as a public reference. This service is rate limited in a similar fashion to our existing RPC nodes. For more information, see the launch forum post and the docs.

We're eager for your feedback on what you'd like to see in the newsletter—tag @SuiNetwork on Twitter, join our Discord community, or post on the developer forums.

Community

News

Sui's growth in DeFi metrics has been rapid, hitting half a billion dollars in total value locked in less than a year.
The official Sui website got a few updates, including updates to Intro to Sui, Move, zkLogin, and Community and Events.

Recent Blog Posts

Presentations

Recordings of live sessions from MoveDevConf 2024 in Shanghai, China can be viewed here.

Development & Ecosystem

Development Experience

Check out the first ETH-SUI token transfer on Sui. If you're interested to read more, check this GH issue.
The 2024H1 Sui Developer Roadmap is now available to the public, find it here.
The reference implementation for Asset Tokenization helps builders represent real-world assets on-chain.
Sui Owned Object Pools is a recently released library for preventing the equivocation in owned objects, which sometimes leads to those objects being locked for the remainder of an epoch was released. You can use npm install suioop to get started with it, and for more details, please refer to the suioop documentation.
Read this article on how Move adds Enums and Macros in its 2024 Edition.
RPC 2.0 is now available for both Mainnet and Testnet as an MVP. See the announcement here.
Sui's Coin DenyList, a shared object that the bearer of a DenyCap can access to specify a list of addresses that are unable to use a Sui core type, is now available on Mainnet, Testnet, and Devnet. Check out the docs here and here.
Shared object deletion will be available on mainnet with the mid February release. Transfer to object is already available on Mainnet.

Tools

You can now install Sui tools using brew install sui. Check out the docs here.
Check out the sui-sniffer tool built by Kriya Finance's team.
The MultiSig toolkit got some updates, such as now supporting the effects preview in the offline signer.
Sentio has released typemove, a tool to generate Typescript bindings for Move contracts. Typemove is already powering 15+ Sui projects on Sentio.

Open Sui Improvement Proposals (SIPs)

Below is a list of all the open proposals as of now. To see the actual proposal text, click on the Files Changed tab. If you'd like, you can provide your input directly in the GitHub issue.

Merged Pull Requests

More than 400 pull requests were merged in January '24. Check them out on GitHub.

Releases

Several releases are scheduled for February 2024. Check out the release schedule and the most recent releases.