SUI rallies approximately 54% in four weeks, outpacing Bitcoin and Ether

SUI, the native token of the Sui Network, climbed approximately 54% over a 30-day stretch ending in early October 2026. That pace left both Bitcoin and Ether behind during a broader market recovery. The rally didn’t happen in a vacuum. It landed alongside a run of ecosystem news, including a new institutional yield product from Bitwise and a record throughput figure unveiled at Sui’s own developer conference. The numbers behind the move Over the past four weeks, the dollar value of assets deposited in Sui’s decentralized finance apps grew 15.5%. That metric is known as total value locked, or TVL. The four-week gain came even after a 5.2% decline over the most recent week. The pullback lined up with SUI’s price cooling off, which matters because a chunk of that locked value is denominated in the token itself. Sui’s DeFi TVL peaked at roughly $1.21 billion on September 22, 2026. Contributions from NAVI Protocol, a lending platform on the network, helped push the figure to that high. On the trading side, SUI moved between $1.15 and $1.27 during the period. By early October it was changing hands at approximately $1.12 to $1.15. At those levels, SUI’s market capitalization sat around $4...