- SUI -Institutional Inflow struck $ 11.7 million while Sol saw $ 3.3 million out.
- The Altcoin saw a relatively stronger network traction and was better off offering investor returns.
Sky [SUI]-Based investment products made a strong comeback last week and placed $ 11.7 million in inflow compared to $ 0.3 million in the previous week.
Interesting is that last week’s institutional importance surpassed Solana [SOL]who saw $ 3.3 out, per weekly flows of coinshares report.
Source: Coinshares
Sui Flips Sol
Sui and Solana have been close to rivals and occasionally throw each other on the institutional streams.
However, Sui has remained fairly dominant on price performance, especially at the end of 2024 and in the recent recovery of Q2 2025.
Source: Sui/Sol -Ratio, TradingView
Between last November and mid -January 2025, Sui won 177% against SOL. It collected 60% extra against SOL in the recent recovery. In fact, it was a bullish flag that could lead to an extra 35% rally if validated.
In other words, Sui seemed more ready for better investor returns than Sol.
But support such a sui outperformance scenario on chain signals?
Although Solana was dominant in daily active addresses, TVL (total value locked) and DEX volumes, Sui registered a considerably higher increase in traction a year to date (YTD).
According to Artemis factsSui’s daily active addresses rose by 137% to 1.5 million on a YTD basis, while the users of Solana fell by 24% to 3.8 million.
The DEX (decentralized exchange) volume, which follows speculative activity in the ecosystem, rose almost 140%, while Solana placed only 8% increase.
Source: Artemis
In short, the network traction of the Altcoin also reflected the price that performed better. If the trend continues, it can lead to the price for SOL again.
According to Crypto Analyst Ali MartinezThe Altcoin could expand its recovery to its highest highest point of $ 5.4. This suggested a potential jump of 34% compared to the current $ 4 level.
For his part, analyst Kaleo noted That the price action of Altcoin Sol’s Trend reflected in the cycle of 2020-2021. As a result, the Altcoin could print a new ATH if the correlation would remain positive.
Source: X
Perhaps another potential catalyst was the recent Phantom wallet integration With sui. This would further increase the speculative interest rate SAP and the Dex volume and the total price of Sui.
In general, the Altcoin has idiosyncratic catalysts to feed its advance to a new ATH above $ 5.4. However, every negative macro update can block the risk-on sentiment and the rally.