Sui Foundation has detailed Sui Basecamp 2026, its flagship ecosystem conference scheduled for October 7–8 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. This year’s program centers on the “agentic economy,” combining artificial intelligence, payments, privacy and blockchain infrastructure through technical demonstrations, workshops and discussions involving developers, investors and industry leaders.
According to the official Sui Basecamp announcement, one of the event’s headline demonstrations will be a live attempt to surpass Sui’s existing experimental throughput record. Mysten Labs Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer Kostas Chalkias will lead the October 7 speed test, targeting more than the 6,086,766 transactions per second recorded on July 4.
Sui Plans Live TPS Record Attempt
The performance demonstration is designed to simulate the kind of transaction intensity Sui expects from increasingly autonomous applications. Sui is positioning high throughput as infrastructure for environments where AI agents can execute payments and other actions continuously at machine speed, rather than requiring individual human interaction for every transaction.
The Foundation is also running a prediction competition around the test. Participants attending Basecamp or following remotely can submit estimates for the final TPS result, with prizes of 10,000 SUI for first place, 5,000 SUI for second and 1,000 SUI for third. CertiK will independently audit the experiment, with transactions recorded in a cryptographic transcript for subsequent verification.
The record attempt should not be interpreted as a guarantee of sustained mainnet throughput under ordinary production conditions. It is a controlled performance experiment intended to test the limits of Sui’s architecture, making the resulting TPS figure different from typical network activity observed under everyday workloads.
AI Builder Lab Targets Agentic Applications
Basecamp will also feature an AI Builder Lab where developers can work directly with tools for creating AI-powered applications and autonomous agents. The hands-on format is intended to move the agentic economy discussion from theory toward deployable applications, with sessions led by teams already building across AI and Sui infrastructure.
The broader agenda includes autonomous payments, instant settlement, private transactions, stable digital dollars and post-quantum security. These themes place financial infrastructure and machine-driven transactions at the center of Sui’s current technical narrative, rather than treating AI as a standalone application category.
Sui Basecamp will run alongside TOKEN2049 Singapore and bring together speakers from blockchain, finance and artificial intelligence. The event is being positioned as both a developer conference and a showcase for infrastructure intended to support autonomous economic activity, with the live performance test serving as one measurable demonstration of that strategy.
For Sui, the larger test will come after the conference. Record-setting experiments can demonstrate technical headroom, but sustained adoption will depend on developers turning that capacity into applications with recurring users, payments and autonomous workloads across the network.
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