When the market is still boiling over meme coins and ETF hype, some traditional financial players with a longer-term vision are quietly turning to another direction: infrastructure with stronger performance, higher compliance, and smoother cross-chain capabilities. They are not seeking "short-term stimulation" but the underlying system that can truly run the next generation of finance. And Sei is becoming their popular choice.
Careful observation reveals its most prominent feature: retaining the technical advantages of crypto native while proactively embracing regulatory frameworks. Not pursuing short-term popularity, but focusing on solving the two most challenging problems of blockchain implementation - performance bottlenecks and compliance thresholds. This development philosophy of "slow is fast" may be exactly the quality the industry needs when transitioning from speculation to practical application.
Performance Innovation: From "Seconds" to "Milliseconds"
While most blockchains are still dealing with "hundreds of transactions per second", Sei has pushed speed to another dimension: processing over 12,500 transactions (TPS), with a final confirmation time of only 400 milliseconds. In comparison, Ethereum mainnet's confirmation time is 470 times longer, and even Solana, known for being "lightning-fast", is 22% slower.
Moreover, Sei is fully compatible with Ethereum ecosystem development tools like Hardhat and Foundry, allowing developers to transition "painlessly" and significantly reducing migration and development costs.
Compliance Design, Born for Institutions
When institutions truly begin participating in blockchain, the focus shifts from "can it be used" to "can it be trusted". In this aspect, Sei introduces a "deterministic gas fee" model, significantly reducing MEV capture risks in large transactions and improving overall transaction cost predictability. Combined with nanosecond-responsive high-performance RPC nodes and an audited memory pool architecture, these greatly enhance the chain's user-friendliness for institutional users.
Simultaneously, its compliance capability is not just a verbal commitment. For instance, a new entity in its ecosystem recently established a compliant operational structure in the US and launched a $65 million fund to support DeSci (Decentralized Science) projects, which itself signals a long-term investment and emphasis on compliance.
ETF Endorsement: Key Signal for Market Confidence
Beyond solid technical and compliance foundations, Sei has achieved key breakthroughs in asset financialization. Recently, Canary submitted the first ETF based on Sei staked assets in the US, which is not only a significant milestone for Sei but also an industry recognition of its underlying asset quality.
It's important to emphasize that not all blockchain projects meet the conditions for launching staked asset ETFs, therefore, Sei's inclusion in an ETF product represents strong market endorsement. Against the backdrop of gradually warming market sentiment, such developments are highly likely to become key variables in boosting community and institutional confidence.
Cross-Chain Liquidity Aggregation: Breaking Inter-Chain Barriers
To solve liquidity fragmentation issues, Sei collaborates with cross-chain protocols like Wormhole and Axelar, achieving seamless connections with mainstream blockchains such as Ethereum and Cosmos. Users can interact freely between protocols on different chains without complex bridging operations.
Additionally, Sei has collaborated with Circle to develop a compliant cross-chain USDC channel, ensuring stable coin safe circulation across different chains. To incentivize liquidity providers, it established a $50 million Liquidity Bootstrapping Fund (LBF) to support cross-chain transactions and asset management.
Rapid Ecosystem Expansion: Full Bloom from DeFi to Gaming
Since mid-2024, Sei's ecosystem has rapidly developed, attracting over 150 projects to deploy on the mainnet, with daily active addresses reaching 400,000 and total users exceeding 6.5 million. In the first quarter of 2025, Total Value Locked (TVL) grew by 73.7%, reaching $363 million, with stablecoin market value hitting a historical high of $178 million.
Notably, the gaming sector has become the primary growth driver. Average daily game-related transaction volume reached 354,000, a year-on-year increase of 79.8%. For example, World of Dypians, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game similar to World of Warcraft, has achieved significant user growth on these platforms.
Furthermore, it launched a $10 million Creator Fund and a $250,000 Street Team program to support NFT and social projects, encouraging global creators to participate in ecosystem development.
Starting Point of a New Phase: Giga Upgrade and Future Blueprint
Although current data is already impressive, Sei's ambitions are clearly not limited to this. The Giga upgrade planned for 2025 will introduce a brand new EVM client, with performance improvements expected to reach 50 times the current level. This not only signifies a qualitative change in processing capacity but also symbolizes another leap towards the goal of "universal infrastructure".
From infrastructure to ecosystem prosperity, and then to institutional design and technological evolution, Sei has completed in less than two years what traditional projects would take five years to explore. It may not be the loudest voice in the market, but it could be the most determined force in building the next blockchain era.
Towards a Decentralized Future
Sei's technological upgrades are not just a performance leap but an important step in its global strategic layout. By establishing legally compliant operational entities in the US, it provides a solid foundation for global expansion. As its ecosystem continues to grow and technological performance improves, it is leading blockchain technology towards a truly decentralized future.
In this process, Sei not only provides developers with a powerful technical platform but also brings more efficient and safer blockchain application experiences to global users. With continuous technological progress, it is expected to become a bridge connecting Web2 and Web3, leading the development of the next-generation internet.
