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Add Sui to glossary and note its use for currency (#1134)
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### Gas

As with other blockchains, [gas](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gas-ethereum.asp) in Sui is the currency for the cost of conducting a transaction.
[Gas](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/gas/) refers to the computational effort required for executing operations on the Sui network. In Sui, gas is paid with the network's native currency SUI. The cost of executing a transaction in SUI units is referred to as the transaction fee.


### Genesis
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Single-writer objects are owned by one account. In Sui, transactions affecting only single-writer objects owned by the same account may proceed with only a check of the sender’s account, greatly speeding transaction times.

### Sui/SUI

Sui refers to the Sui blockchain, the SUI currency, and the [Sui open source project](https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui/) as a whole.


### Total order

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available in the wallet.

For more information, see [Transferring objects](../build/wallet.md#transferring-objects).

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