What’s the next big thing in the upcoming bull market? Four key narratives to watch closely: #AI #Privacy #BTCFi #Stablecoins This isn’t just random speculation. Mysten Labs’ recent moves have pretty much laid the answers out on the table. These four directions are also the core focus of #Sui’s roadmap for the next few years. --- 1/ Native Bitcoin Finance The Hashi testnet is live, marking Sui’s official push into native Bitcoin finance. Currently, $BTC accounts for 60% of the total crypto market cap, but less than 0.37% of it is actively used in #DeFi. Trillions of dollars in assets are essentially idle on-chain. Hashi aims to solve this problem, leveraging: ▌Sui’s sub-second finality ▌Move language’s native handling of Bitcoin UTXO ▌25+ institutional-grade partners --- 2/ Zero-Gas Stablecoin Transfers Payments have always been one of Sui’s most important strategic directions. This year, Sui introduced protocol-level support for zero-Gas stablecoin transfers, allowing users to make stablecoin payments without paying Gas fees. Currently, 7 stablecoins are supported, positioning Sui as a competitor to SWIFT and PayPal. Since 2024, the total stablecoin transaction volume settled on the Sui network has exceeded $2.25 trillion—a staggering scale. --- 3/ Privacy Transactions Privacy is becoming a fundamental infrastructure need. Sui has launched privacy transactions on its devnet, supporting privacy protection for transaction amounts and account balances, while ensuring auditability for regulatory compliance. Privacy and compliance are no longer mutually exclusive. In the future, privacy won’t just be an application-layer feature—it will be a default part of the protocol layer. --- 4/ AI Finance is Already on the Way Sub-second finality, zero-Gas payments, and native privacy—these three capabilities together form the perfect foundation for AI agents to autonomously execute transactions. In this direction, several standout projects have already emerged within the Sui ecosystem: Beep: An AI financial gateway supporting 300+ assets MemWal: A memory layer built for AI agents MoonPay: Sui is one of the founding members of the cross-chain wallet standard --- Final Thoughts If this prediction is correct, the next bull market’s core narratives will revolve around #AI, #Privacy, #BTCFi, and #Stablecoins. And Sui has already positioned itself at the intersection of these four narratives.