Sui processed 40.6 million transactions per second in a live stress test, exceeding its previous record by more than six times, as the layer-1 network announced five major ecosystem developments spanning artificial intelligence payments, mobile USDC transfers, Bitcoin-backed finance, and cross-chain settlement.

The announcements arrive as analyst Ali Charts identifies $1.30 as the next price hurdle for SUI and $8 as a longer-term target, with the token's weekly chart showing a rebound from the lower boundary of a rising channel.

Sui Records Five Major Ecosystem Developments

The announcements cover transaction capacity, AI payments, mobile USDC access, Bitcoin finance, and cross-chain settlement.

At Basecamp, Sui processed 40.6 million transactions per second during a live stress test, more than six times its previous record. The test used over 10,000 programmable tunnels to simulate AI-agent activity, with interactions executed off-chain and settled on Sui. Throughput benchmarks of this kind are used to signal capacity headroom for high-volume machine activity, though the headline figure reflects a controlled stress test rather than organic traffic.

Additionally, Sui announced a collaboration with Alibaba Cloud to integrate cloud and AI inference services into Sui Agent Payments. The integration is designed to let AI agents purchase cloud services autonomously using stablecoins within predefined spending limits. The pairing of stablecoins with autonomous agents reflects a broader industry effort to build payment infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce.

Sui is also joining Samsung Wallet's USDC offering, a partnership with the potential to reach 82 million eligible Galaxy devices across the United States. Users will be able to hold and transfer USDC directly, while Sui supports gasless stablecoin transfers. Embedding stablecoin balances in a wallet that ships with the device gives USDC a consumer distribution channel that does not rely on users installing a dedicated crypto app.

Hashi and Circle Expand Sui's Financial Infrastructure

Hashi, Sui's Bitcoin finance project, is preparing for a phased mainnet rollout this month. The project has secured more than $500 million in capital commitments and attracted over 20 participating institutions, with Anchorage Digital — the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States — joining as a launch partner.

The project aims to let Bitcoin holders use BTC-backed assets as collateral for lending and other financial applications on Sui. Putting idle BTC to work as collateral has become one of the most closely watched themes in onchain finance, since most of Bitcoin's supply has historically sat outside decentralized finance.

Meanwhile, Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol V2 has launched on the network. The protocol allows native USDC to move between Sui and 29 other supported blockchains, supporting cross-chain payments, decentralized finance liquidity, and treasury applications. Under CCTP's burn-and-mint design, the asset received on a destination chain is native USDC rather than a bridge-wrapped representation.

Ali Charts Identifies $1.30 as SUI's Immediate Test

According to a post on X, Ali Charts said SUI's weekly chart had rebounded from the lower boundary of a rising parallel channel, while the SuperTrend indicator turned bullish three weeks ago.

The analyst identified $1.30 as immediate resistance, followed by a channel mid-range target of $2.40. A decisive break above $1.30 could open the way toward $2.40, according to his analysis.

If bullish momentum continues, Ali Charts places the upper channel boundary near $8 as his longer-term target. He links the technical outlook to the developments involving agent payments, mobile USDC, Bitcoin finance, and cross-chain transfers.

With Hashi's phased rollout set for this month, the Samsung Wallet integration pending deployment across eligible devices, and CCTP V2 now live, Sui's roadmap offers several observable checkpoints in the weeks ahead — Hashi's mainnet phases, Galaxy device uptake of USDC transfers, and how SUI trades around the $1.30 level flagged in the analyst's chart.

Source: Cryptofrontnews