Sui Jumps 26 Percent: The Strongest Coin In The Top 30

Sui is the strongest asset among the 30 largest cryptocurrencies on Sunday. The price stands at $1.04, a gain of around 26 percent within 24 hours and of a good 40 percent over the week (CoinGecko, September 21, 2026, 12:50 UTC). That puts Sui well ahead of the wider market: bitcoin added 6 percent over the same period, ethereum 5.9 percent. The jump did not come out of nowhere. It coincides with a broad risk-on day across the crypto market, but it lands on two pieces of news that concern Sui specifically. One at a time. Programmable transaction blocks bundle several steps into a single operation. What Sets The Sui Price Apart From The Other Gainers On a day when almost everything is rising, a gain on its own says little. It gets interesting at the trading volume: around $2.0 billion changed hands in 24 hours. For comparison, Avalanche, which also posted a double-digit gain, reached a fraction of that. Volume on that scale means real demand was in play, beyond the closing out of derivatives positions. Open interest on the futures exchanges rose roughly 21 percent alongside it. A rising price with rising open interest is taken as a sign that new money is building positions rather th...