$SUI Question: Do you get SUI for free? Does anyone get free SUI tokens. Answer is yes and that's not a good thing if you're buying and someone else is getting it for free.

If you're thinking of buying SUI read this You buy it with your own money.

But every month, large amounts of SUI are unlocked and distributed to early backers, investors, and team allocations — at zero cost to them.

If they receive it for free and you have to buy it, where does that value come from?

It comes from holders like you.

When free tokens are sold on the open market, buyers provide the exit. That creates three effects if you hold SUI:

1. Your ownership gets diluted. More tokens exist, so your percentage of the network shrinks that means SUI price goes down
2. **Constant selling pressure.** The market has to absorb those unlocks every month just to hold price.
3. **You pay for their supply.** Their cost is $0. Your cost is market price. your the exit liquidity

With DASH it's different. ~12.7M coins, fixed supply, no monthly free unlocks to absorb. No one is getting a fresh allocation for free that you have to pay for.

One model transfers cost to holders it takes from buyers to give it to those who get it for free. The other protects scarcity.