Sui (SUI) co-founder Adeniyi Abiodun said confidential transfers are coming to the network, using range proofs to hide transaction amounts while the protocol itself guards token supply.
Key Points:
- Sui will conceal transfer amounts with range proofs while keeping supply checks at the protocol level.
- The design aims to block secret minting, the failure that once hit Zcash's Orchard system.
- The plan arrived during a stretch of market weakness and recent network outages.
Sui Splits Privacy From Supply
Abiodun disclosed the plan in a thread on Jun. 5, as the team laid out a wider move into privacy tools and agent payments.
Confidential transfers break a hard problem into two separate jobs.
Range proofs verify that a transferred amount is valid without revealing the number, so the feature masks balances from public view. The protocol enforces supply on its own, checking that no fresh tokens appear from nowhere instead of asking the privacy proof to do both.
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Why The SUI Design Matters
When one proof must cover both privacy and supply integrity at once, it hands attackers a larger target to probe.
A counterfeiting flaw in Zcash (ZEC)'s Orchard system once let unauthorized minting slip by unnoticed. Sui keeps that check at the protocol layer, where the team confirmed it is hardest to abuse.
The privacy work sits inside a broader build that is already running. Mysten Labs has shipped free tier payments and is developing native payment intents that let AI agents transact on their own. Its Walrus storage network is being framed as the memory layer for those agents.
Abiodun was blunt about the team's stance. "Bear markets separate the teams who build from the teams who tweet," he wrote.
The plan lands after a rough operational stretch for the network. Sui recovered from three mainnet outages tied to upgrade bugs, and an earlier stall sent the token sharply lower. Delivering confidential transfers on schedule would signal that the build-first approach can turn into shipped product.
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