• The prices of digital assets may be determined on a relatively small number of Digital Asset Trading Platforms by a relatively small number of market participants, many of whom are speculators or those intimately involved with the issuance of such digital assets, such as validators or developers, which could contribute to price volatility that makes retailers less likely to accept digital assets in the future. • Certain privacy-preserving features have been or are expected to be introduced to a number of digital asset networks. If any such features are introduced to the Sui Network, any trading platforms or businesses that facilitate transactions in SUI may be at an increased risk of criminal or civil lawsuits, or of having banking services cut off if there is a concern that these features interfere with the performance of anti-money laundering duties and economic sanctions checks. • Users, developers and validators may switch to or adopt certain digital asset networks or protocols at the expense of their engagement with other digital asset networks and protocols, which may negatively impact those networks and protocols, including the Sui Network. The Trust is not actively managed and will not have any formal strategy relating to the development of the Sui Network. The Sui protocol was only recently conceived, and the Sui Network or its underlying technologies may not function as intended, which could have an adverse impact on the value of SUI and an investment in the Shares. Components of the Sui protocol were first conceived in 2017 by Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, Sam Blackshear, George Danezis, and Kostas Chalkias, continuing research performed while employed by Meta on the Diem (previously called Libra) project. To achieve consensus among validators, the network historically used a dual-layer design consisting of “Narwhal,” a data-availability layer, and “Bullshark,” a consensus protocol. However, in July 2024, the Sui Network introduced the “Mysticeti” consensus mechanism to replace Bullshark, improving transaction latency and throughput while continuing to use Narwhal for data dissemination. This configuration enables the Sui Network to verify and execute many transactions in parallel, rather than sequentially like in prominent blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Sui protocol, Narwhal and Mysticeti are new technologies that are not widely used and may not function as intended. For example, they may require more specialized equipment to participate in the network and fail to attract a significant number of users. In addition, there may be flaws in the cryptography underlying Narwhal and Mysticeti, including flaws that affect functionality of the Sui Network or make the network vulnerable to attack. The development of the Sui Network is ongoing and any further disruption could have a material adverse effect on the value of SUI and an investment in the Shares. For example, on November 21, 2024, the Sui Network experienced a significant disruption, later attributed to a type of denial of service attack, and was offline for over 2 hours. The development of the Sui Network is ongoing and any further disruption could have a material adverse effect on the value of SUI and an investment in the Shares. Smart contracts are a new technology and ongoing development may magnify initial problems, cause volatility on the networks that use smart contracts and reduce interest in them, which could have an adverse impact on the value of SUI. Smart contracts are programs that run on a blockchain that execute automatically when certain conditions are met. Since smart contracts typically cannot be stopped or reversed, vulnerabilities in their programming can have damaging effects. For example, in June 2016, a vulnerability in the smart contracts underlying The DAO, a distributed autonomous organization for venture capital funding, allowed an attack by a hacker to syphon approximately $60 million worth of Ether from The DAO’s accounts into a segregated account. In the aftermath of the theft, certain developers and core contributors pursued a “hard fork” of the Ethereum Network in order to erase any record of the theft. Despite these efforts, the price of Ether dropped approximately 35% in the aftermath of the attack and subsequent hard fork. In addition, in July 2017, a vulnerability in a smart contract for a multi-signature wallet software developed by Parity led to a $30 million theft of Ether, and in November 2017, a new vulnerability in Parity’s wallet software led to roughly $160 million worth of Ether being indefinitely frozen in an account. In another example, in February 2022, a vulnerability in a smart contract for Wormhole, a bridge between the Ethereum and Solana networks led to a $320 million theft of Ether. While persons associated with Solana Labs and/or the Solana Foundation are understood to have played a key role in bringing the network back online, the broader community also played a key role, as Solana validators coordinated to upgrade and restart the network. Other smart contracts, such as bridges between blockchain networks and DeFi protocols have also been manipulated, exploited or used in ways that were not intended or envisioned by their creators such that attackers syphoned over $3.8 billion worth of digital assets from smart contracts in 2022. Initial problems and continued problems with the development, design and deployment of smart contracts may have an adverse effect on the value of SUI, which could have a negative impact on the value of the Shares.
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