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The current price of Cetus Protocol is $0.022 with a 6.74% change in the last 24 hours.
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Cetus is a decentralized exchange and concentrated liquidity protocol written in the Move language, running primarily on Sui with an earlier deployment on Aptos. Instead of spreading liquidity evenly across every possible price, Cetus lets liquidity providers concentrate capital inside a chosen price band, which makes the same deposit far deeper around the prices where trading actually happens.
CETUS is the protocol's native token. It funds liquidity incentives and, once locked into xCETUS, carries governance rights and a share of protocol revenue. Cetus is also the subject of one of the largest DeFi security incidents on record, covered in detail further down this page.
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Cetus launched in 2023 as one of the first concentrated liquidity venues on Sui, with a parallel deployment on Aptos. The team has operated publicly under the Cetus name rather than through individual founder profiles, and the project's own documentation does not present a named founder list. That is worth stating plainly rather than guessing.
The documented trajectory is a concentrated liquidity market maker first, then a swap aggregator routing across other Sui venues, then vaults, intent-based order types, and a token launch surface. A discrete liquidity model was later added alongside the original design. Public repositories including the CLMM interface, the DLMM interface, and the aggregator were still receiving commits through September 2026, so the codebase is actively maintained.
Cetus is easiest to understand as four layers.
Concentrated liquidity pools A provider deposits two assets and picks a price range. Inside that range the position earns swap fees; outside it, the position sits entirely in one of the two assets and earns nothing. Pools are permissionless and come in multiple fee tiers, so volatile and stable pairs can be priced differently.
Discrete liquidity bins The newer DLMM model organizes liquidity into discrete price bins rather than one continuous curve, giving more explicit control over the shape of a position and letting trades inside a single bin execute without moving the price.
Aggregation The Cetus aggregator splits an order across multiple Sui liquidity sources, including venues other than Cetus, and returns a combined route. A trade routed through Cetus is therefore not necessarily filled only by Cetus pools.
Order and launch tooling Intent-style features such as dollar cost averaging and limit orders sit on top of the pools, alongside vaults that automate range management and a launch surface for new Sui tokens.
CETUS is a Sui native coin type with nine decimals and a maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. A live read of the coin metadata for the CETUS type on Sui mainnet confirms both the nine decimal places and the one billion unit cap.
Documented allocation is 50 percent to community and liquidity provider incentives, 20 percent to team and advisors, 15 percent to investors, and 15 percent to a liquidity treasury. Team tokens carry a 12 month lock then 24 months of monthly vesting; investor tokens a 6 month lock then 12 months of monthly vesting.
Holders can convert CETUS into xCETUS at a one to one ratio. xCETUS is the governance unit and the claim on revenue. Converting back is deliberately slow: a 15 day redemption returns half the amount, a 180 day redemption returns the full amount, and whatever is forfeited on a short redemption flows to the protocol's eco treasury. Per the documentation, half of CLMM net profit goes to xCETUS stakers, while DLMM net profit is split between stakers, protocol reserves, and repayment of the loan taken after the 2025 exploit.
Cetus was an early mover in bringing concentrated liquidity to the Move ecosystem rather than porting an Ethereum design onto an EVM chain. Sui's object model changes how pool state and individual positions are represented, and Cetus published its underlying Move libraries, including its math and data structure modules, as open source that other Sui projects reused.
The other distinguishing feature is less flattering but more instructive. Cetus is one of very few DeFi protocols drained at scale and then substantially restored, because the chain it runs on had a validator set willing and technically able to freeze the attacker's addresses.
Compared with concentrated liquidity venues on Ethereum and its rollups, Cetus is written in Move rather than Solidity, so its risk surface differs. It does not face reentrancy in the Solidity sense, but it does depend on the correctness of Move integer math libraries, which is precisely where it failed.
Compared with order book venues on Sui, Cetus is an automated market maker first and adds order-like behavior through intent tooling rather than a native matching engine. Compared with a pure aggregator, it both operates its own liquidity and routes across others, so it competes with some of the venues it routes into.
Security depends on the Move contracts, on the correctness of the math libraries they import, on the Sui validator set, and on the operational discipline of the team. The 2025 incident showed that the first two matter more than most users assume.
On May 22, 2025, an attacker drained roughly 223 million dollars from Cetus pools. The root cause was a flawed overflow check in a checked shift-left function inside an open source Move math library used by the concentrated liquidity contracts. The check failed to reject inputs above its intended bound, so the shift silently overflowed. The attacker used flash loans to open a position in an extremely narrow tick range and then added a single unit of one token, causing the contracts to credit an enormous liquidity position against a negligible deposit. Withdrawing that position paid out real reserves.
The recovery matters as much as the failure. Roughly 62 million dollars was bridged out before it could be stopped. Sui validators, following a community governance vote, froze about 162 million dollars of the stolen funds on chain and returned it to the protocol. The Sui Foundation extended a 30 million dollar USDC loan and Cetus contributed its own reserves. The protocol restarted on June 8, 2025, seventeen days after the exploit. Affected liquidity providers were made whole between 85 and 99 percent immediately, with the remainder scheduled as CETUS over a twelve month linear unlock. The foundation additionally committed 10 million dollars toward audits, bug bounties, and formal verification.
One detail deserves emphasis. A similar arithmetic issue had been flagged by an auditor in early 2023 against the Aptos deployment, and the weakness persisted when the code was later ported to Sui. Audits are point-in-time artifacts, and porting code between chains can carry old findings forward.
Cetus matters as core Sui liquidity infrastructure and as one of the clearest case studies in DeFi incident response. The technical lesson concerns trusting imported arithmetic; the governance lesson concerns what a young chain's validator set will do when a large share of its DeFi liquidity is stolen. Both shaped how Sui projects now approach audits, formal verification, and emergency coordination.
CETUS trades on centralized exchanges and on Sui decentralized venues, including Cetus itself. Listings, pairs, and availability differ by jurisdiction, so check what your exchange supports before committing funds.
CETUS is commonly available on:
Pairs are typically quoted against USDT, with SUI pairs available on Sui native venues.
After purchase, CETUS can be held:
Because CETUS is a Sui coin type rather than an EVM token, always confirm you are using a Sui address and the Sui network before depositing or withdrawing. An EVM style address will not work.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Cetus Protocol is $0.022 with a 6.74% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $298,749 representing a 42.43% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Cetus Protocol is $21,236,834, ranking #511 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Cetus Protocol is $22,002,125, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 CETUS is in circulation.
Circulating: 965,217,391. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Cetus Protocol traded between a low of $0.02173 and a high of $0.02359.
CETUS/USDTTether USDT0.022 USDT
