Sui Foundation commits $30 million as DATA Network retires its own chain for Sui

DATA Network is giving up its own blockchain. The project, previously known as Story Protocol, will be rebuilt to run as a native protocol on Sui, and its independent Layer 1 chain will be shut down. The Sui Foundation is backing the move with a $30 million investment. For a project that launched as its own chain less than two years ago, that is a notable change of address. What is actually changing The migration was revealed on October 8, 2026, by Eman Abio, identified as a co-founder of Sui, at Sui ecosystem events. The core of the plan is simple: DATA stops maintaining separate infrastructure and moves its operations onto Sui. DATA will also integrate with Walrus Protocol, a decentralized storage layer, to handle storage and data coordination. That product focus is AI data. DATA now concentrates on services around data provenance, licensing and auditing. Its auditing tool, called Trace, is meant to help track where data came from and whether it can be used. The numbers behind the network give some sense of scale. DATA has logged over 250 million on-chain data registrations through applications built on it, including Kled and Numo, as of October 2026. Kled, the flagship integrati...