Cost to Launch a Memecoin on Sui?

Hello everyone,

I’m exploring how much it actually costs to deploy and mint a memecoin on Sui. I ran some experiments on Testnet with my own move smart contract, and here’s what I observed.

  • Minting 100 coins and 1,000,000,000 coins both incurred roughly the same gas fee.(screen shot attached)
  • I’m curious about the underlying mechanics that cause those minting costs to be identical.

Specifically:

  1. Why does minting different total supplies (e.g. 100 vs 1 billion tokens) result in the same gas usage?
  2. What are the on-chain operations or storage models in Sui Move that explain this behavior?
  3. Is the gas fee structure on Mainnet identical to Testnet for a standard token‐minting transaction?
  4. If there are meaningful differences on Mainnet (e.g., base gas price changes, storage-related fees, or other factors), what should I expect?

I would greatly appreciate any pointers to Official documentation (Sui token standard spec, or gas schedule docs) that detail how token-minting gas is calculated.

Thank you in advance for any insights or redirections!

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