Digital assets may have concentrated ownership and large sales or distributions by holders of such digital assets, or any ability to participate in or otherwise influence a digital asset’s underlying network, could have an adverse effect on the market price of such digital asset. As of the date of this prospectus, the largest 100 SUI wallets held approximately 16% of the SUI in circulation. Moreover, it is possible that other persons or entities control multiple wallets that collectively hold a significant amount of SUI, even if they individually only hold a small amount, and it is possible that some of these wallets are controlled by the same person or entity. In particular, in connection with the launch of the Sui Network, a significant portion of the total initial SUI supply was allocated to early contributors, Mysten treasury, and the community reserve, subject to various release schedules and terms of use. As a result of this concentration of ownership, large sales or distributions by such holders could have an adverse effect on the market price of SUI. For example, Sui was initially conceived in 2021 by Evan Cheng, Adeniyi Abiodun, Sam Blackshear, George Danezis, and Kostas Chalkias to continue research initially performed while the group was employed by Meta Platforms, Inc., in which they collaborated on a digital asset project called Diem (formerly known as Libra). Mysten Labs Inc. (“Mysten”), a for-profit software company which contributes to the development of the Sui Network, formed as an outgrowth of the Diem project. The Sui Foundation is an independent nonprofit entity that supports research and development of open-source technology related to Sui. Moreover, it is possible that a group of SUI holders that together control more than a substantial amount of outstanding SUI are in fact part of the initial or current core developer group, or are otherwise influential members of the Sui community. To the extent that the initial or current core developer groups also control higher than a threshold of outstanding SUI necessary for an attack, as some believe, the risk of this particular group of users causing the Sui Network to adopt updates to the core protocol that this particular group wants to be implemented will be even greater, and should this materialize, it may adversely affect the value of the Shares. Validators may suffer losses due to Staking, or Staking may prove unattractive to validators, which could adversely affect the Sui Network. Staking on the Sui Network requires SUI to be locked by the underlying blockchain network in “objects,” or data units on the Sui Network that hold assets and are managed by the protocol rather than the user. If the Sui Network source code or protocol were to fail to behave as expected, suffer cybersecurity attacks or hacks, experience security issues, or encounter other problems, such transferred (i.e., staked) SUI may be irretrievably lost. In addition, the Sui Network’s underlying protocol dictates requirements for participation in validation activity, and may impose penalties, if the relevant activities are not performed correctly. In addition, the Sui Network dictate requirements for participation in validation activity, and may impose penalties, if the relevant activities are not performed correctly. The Sui Network’s penalties (i.e., “slashing”) may be imposed if a validator commits malicious acts related to the validation of blocks with invalid transactions. Although the Sui Network does not implement slashing of staked principal, the protocol may impose penalties—such as loss of rewards or removal from the validator set—if a validator commits malicious acts or fails to perform required validation activities. SUI is inaccessible while it is staked and as part of the “activating” and “de-activating” or “cooling down” processes of staking. “Activation” is the funding of a validator to be included in the active set, thereby allowing the validator to participate in the Sui Network’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol. “De-activating” is the request to exit from the active set and no longer participate in the Sui Network’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol. As part of these “activating” and “de-activating” processes of staking on the Sui Network, any staked SUI will be inaccessible for a period of time, denominated in “epochs.” On the Sui Network, epochs are targeted to last approximately 24 hours, though actual epoch durations may vary slightly due to validator coordination and other timing effects inherent in the network’s consensus protocol. De-activation typically completes when the current epoch ends, which may be up to one full epoch after the request is submitted. Once the de-activation period ends, the stake becomes fully inactive and can be withdrawn. As a result, the elapsed time between a de-activation request and withdrawal availability may differ depending on (i) when the request is submitted and (ii) the slight variation in epoch duration. The Sui Network requires the payment of gas fees in SUI, and such fees can become significant as the amount and complexity of the transaction grows, depending on the degree of network congestion and the price of SUI. Any cybersecurity attacks, security issues, hacks, penalties, slashing events, or other problems could damage validators’ willingness to participate in validation, discourage existing and future validators from serving as such, and adversely impact the Sui Network’s adoption or the price of SUI. Any disruption of validation on the Sui Network could interfere with network operations and cause the Sui Network to be less attractive to users and application developers than competing blockchain networks, which could cause the price of SUI to decrease.
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