How Sui’s global events united builders, accelerated ecosystem growth, and transformed momentum into real progress throughout the year.
Main Takeaways
In 2025, flagship events such as Sui Basecamp, SuiFest, and Sui Connect brought builders together worldwide and helped local communities take root across key regions.
Throughout the year, in-person gatherings became inflection points for product launches, live demos, and hands-on development across the evolving Sui Stack.
By year’s end, the ecosystem had deepened significantly, with builders moving beyond attendance to shipping products, collaborating, and scaling real-world applications.
Overview
In 2025, Sui expanded its global presence like never before. Across 17 cities worldwide, more than 13,000 attendees participated in Sui-hosted events.
From the flagship Sui Basecamp to new formats like SuiFest and community-driven gatherings around the globe, Sui events evolved into spaces where builders shipped products, partnerships were formed, and local ecosystems found their footing.
Throughout the year, these events became launchpads for new technologies, collaborations, and hands-on engagement with parts of the Sui Stack that simply didn’t exist a year earlier.
As the final chapter of Sui’s End-of-Year series, this recap highlights the moments that defined Sui’s global journey in 2025.
Sui Basecamp Dubai: The Full Sui Stack Comes Together
Sui Basecamp remained the cornerstone of Sui’s event calendar, bringing together more than 2,000 attendees from over 90 countries. The 2025 edition showcased Sui’s evolution into a complete, end-to-end platform for decentralized application development.
Attendees explored deep technical sessions on decentralizing every layer of the application stack—featuring Walrus, Seal, and radical interoperability—alongside discussions on a rapidly maturing financial layer powering next-generation DeFi and Bitcoin Finance.
Rather than focusing solely on announcements, Basecamp demonstrated how the pieces of the Sui Stack now work together—reinforcing Sui’s growing role as a high-performance, user-friendly foundation for real-world decentralized applications.
SuiFest Singapore: The Largest Community Gathering to Date
SuiFest marked Sui’s largest in-person event ever, welcoming more than 4,000 builders and community members under one roof.
Timed alongside major ecosystem launches such as suiUSDe—which expanded Sui’s financial stack—and SuiBall, a hardware wallet designed for secure, native interaction with Sui assets, the event highlighted Sui’s ability to support both advanced onchain finance and accessible user experiences.
Builders took center stage through live demos and community showcases, while Sui Tank raised the stakes by giving teams a live pitching platform in front of judges, including Kevin O’Leary. Together, these moments underscored a clear transition from experimentation to confident building and shipping on Sui.
Sui in Seoul: A Full Week of Innovation at KBW
Sui’s presence at Korea Blockchain Week unfolded over a full week, engaging more than 5,000 attendees across multiple events. From early discussions at EastPoint: Seoul to a strong showing at KBW: IMPACT, Sui played a central role in conversations around regulation, AI, gaming, and the future of onchain applications in the region.
The week culminated with Sui Builder House: APAC, where hundreds of builders, partners, and community members gathered for a full day of programming. Partner announcements from t’order and CUDIS, alongside live demos of Slush, Seal, and other Sui Stack components, highlighted a recurring theme:
Sui is emerging as a coordination layer for real-world applications spanning payments, health, gaming, and more—anchored by a fast-growing APAC community.
Sui Presents Walrus @ ETHDenver: Web3’s Data Layer Goes Live
ETHDenver marked a major turning point with the debut of Walrus, unveiled to a packed audience through a keynote and technical deep dives. Beyond the lighter moments—like a custom Walrus snowboard raffle—the launch introduced developers to a foundational new layer of the Sui Stack.
Walrus reshaped how builders think about verifiable data in Web3 and how that data can be leveraged across decentralized applications, setting the stage for new use cases across the ecosystem.
Sui Connect Goes Global
What began as a small series of local meetups in 2023 evolved into a global circuit in 2025. Seven Sui Connect events across Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Paris, and Istanbul reached thousands of community members worldwide.
These gatherings reinforced a core truth: local communities are the heartbeat of Sui. In 2025, more than 25% of event attendees were returning participants, up from just over 10% the year before.
Across LATAM, APAC, the Middle East, and Europe, first-time attendees became active contributors, new regional leaders emerged, and builders formed collaborations that continue today—turning local meetups into lasting pillars of the global Sui ecosystem.
Looking Ahead: Momentum Into 2026
Every stop on Sui’s 2025 global tour reinforced the same themes:
Sui is attracting a truly global builder community
New layers of the stack are expanding what’s possible onchain
Events are becoming launchpads for products and long-term collaborations
As Sui moves into 2026, that momentum is only accelerating—fueling stronger communities and a growing pipeline of applications built on the Sui Stack.
2025 was about expansion.
2026 will be defined by acceleration.$SUI
