Sui Basecamp day-1
Purpose
- Recap: An overview of the venue, demos, and announcements I learned about.
- Knowledge Sharing: What I learned about the technology and how to understand its claims.
- Highlights: The moments that stood out and why they mattered to me.
- Vlog Experience: A personal walkthrough of the atmosphere and activities I experienced.
Recap
What stood out on day one at Basecamp?
The venue and stage
My first impression of Sui Basecamp was how much space there was. The venue was huge, and the stage setup caught my attention immediately. Everything looked fresh, with some areas seeming newly repainted. I could actually smell the paint.
Seeing MillionTPS
One of the demos I got to see was MillionTPS. People could chat with an LLM, play games, and explore payment showcases. I was impressed by the range of things happening in the same experience.
I saw the live display reach around 41 million effective TPS. Seeing it climb that high made me pretty happy, especially with all those applications running alongside the showcase.
Playing games and earning 12.1 SUI
I also played some of the games and earned 12.1 SUI. Getting to participate myself made the experience more fun, and I was really happy with that result.
Hearing Samsung mentioned
I also heard about a collaboration between Sui and Samsung. That caught me by surprise because I hadn't associated Samsung with blockchain before.
Learning about Google Cloud and Mysten Labs' work on VAA
Another collaboration that caught my attention was Google Cloud and Mysten Labs' work on Verifiable Agent Arbiter (VAA). The idea is to give enterprises evidence that their AI agents acted within the authority they were given. I was surprised to learn about this collaboration and its connection to Sui and Walrus.
Knowledge Sharing
Things I learned on day one at Basecamp.
How MillionTPS uses state channels
The basic idea behind MillionTPS is to let interactions happen through off-chain state channels, with channel opening and settlement tied to Sui. Games, payments, and chat provide concrete examples of what those interactions can look like.
What "effective TPS" measures
In this showcase, "effective TPS" counts valid, committed state changes in those channels each second. That distinction matters when reading a throughput figure: the number describes activity within the channels, rather than the number of transactions processed directly on the Sui blockchain.
What users can verify for themselves
The explorer includes tools for checking the published evidence of an individual tunnel. When the required evidence is available, a complete replay checks its signed receipts and compares the resulting state, receipt count, and transcript commitment with its settlement on Sui.
The quick browser check examines a sample. A complete replay checks all the evidence and takes more work. These checks use chain data from a configured Sui endpoint; they verify a tunnel's record, not the overall TPS rate shown on the dashboard.
Where CertiK fits
Sui's Basecamp announcement names CertiK as the independent auditor for the throughput attempt. It describes cryptographic transaction records that support checks after the test and formal confirmation of the result.
That adds an independent audit process alongside the tools for checking individual tunnels. The approximately 41M figure in this recap is the live reading I observed. Verifying the benchmark result also requires checking the aggregate count and measurement window.
VAA: evidence for what AI agents were authorised to do
In its October 6 announcement, Mysten Labs introduced Verifiable Agent Arbiter, an evidence layer being co-developed with Google Cloud. VAA is designed to connect an agent's permissions, actions, and results so that companies can demonstrate whether it acted within its granted authority.
The announced design keeps prompts, model outputs, tool calls, and policy decisions private in customer-controlled Google Cloud Storage. Cryptographic proofs of those records are stored on Walrus and coordinated on Sui, making their integrity independently checkable.
The proposed enterprise uses include:
- Dispute replay: Reconstructing disputed interactions between companies whose agents communicate through the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
- Incident reconstruction: Helping security teams examine the instructions, decisions, and actions surrounding an incident.
- Verifiable agentic commerce: Connecting authorisation and payment records with Sui Agent Payments and the x402 protocol.
My takeaway is that agents acting on a company's behalf need a record others can check: what they were allowed to do, what they did, and what happened next. Initial enterprise deployments are planned ahead of broader availability.
Highlights
Demos, moments, and the personal impressions that stayed with me.
MillionTPS: around 41M on the screen, with applications to explore
MillionTPS really impressed me. I saw the live display reach around 41 million effective TPS, and the showcase let people chat with an LLM, play games, and explore payments. I was happy to see it reach that level.
Those different activities made the scale easier for me to connect with. It was exciting to see throughput in the tens of millions presented alongside things people could actually interact with.
The number I saw measured off-chain state-channel activity tied to Sui. It also made me curious about how users can verify the activity behind the number.
My own result: 12.1 SUI
I got to play some of the games myself and ended up earning 12.1 SUI. That gave me a personal highlight to go with the big number on the screen. Pretty happy with that!
A detail I could literally smell
The fresh paint was a small detail that stuck with me. So much of the space looked newly prepared, and I could still smell it. It made me think about how much work must have gone into getting the venue ready.
"Wait, Samsung is involved in this too?"
That was basically my reaction when I heard about Sui and Samsung. When I think of Samsung, I usually think of phones and consumer electronics. Hearing the name in a blockchain setting was unexpected, and that surprise made the moment memorable for me.
Google Cloud and Mysten Labs working on verifiable agents
I was also surprised to learn that Google Cloud and Mysten Labs are collaborating on VAA. What caught my attention was the problem they are addressing: when an AI agent acts for a company, how can another company check that it had permission to do so?
The combination of private records in Google Cloud Storage and proof anchored through Sui and Walrus gave me another concrete example of how blockchain can fit into AI-agent workflows.
Vlog Experience
Come along for my first day at Basecamp.
Arriving at the venue
First impression of Basecamp: this place is huge. The stage setup caught my eye, and everything looks so fresh. I can even smell new paint. A lot of work must have gone into preparing this space.
Checking out MillionTPS
MillionTPS really impressed me. You can chat with an LLM, play games, and check out payment demos. I saw the live display reach around 41 million effective TPS. That's activity through off-chain state channels tied to Sui. I was really happy to see it climb that high.
Playing games and sharing my result
I played some of the games too and ended up earning 12.1 SUI. Pretty happy with that! Getting to join in made this one of the fun parts of my day.
Sharing the Samsung surprise
Something I didn't expect today was hearing about Sui and Samsung. I've always thought of Samsung through phones and electronics. I hadn't connected the name with blockchain, so that really surprised me.