Introducing the Market Infrastructure Grid

A Global Network of Enterprises and Institutions Powering Modern Markets on Sei

Sei was designed with a clear ambition: to power markets that move faster, assets that move freely, and financial distribution at global scale.

As the network matured, a pattern became clear. Certain integrations did more than add functionality—they increased the velocity of the entire ecosystem. Capital moved faster. Liquidity deepened. Distribution widened. Each new participant strengthened the system beyond its individual contribution.

Over time, this compounding effect attracted the foundational components of modern markets across institutional, enterprise, and consumer layers.

Global payment platforms. Institutional capital rails. Enterprise-grade security providers. Market data, custody, onramps, exchanges, and validators—each integrating to solve real operational needs, and in doing so, reinforcing the momentum of the network itself.

What began as independent adoption has now reached critical mass.

Introducing the Market Infrastructure Grid: a global network of enterprises, institutions, and data systems operating on Sei.

The Grid is guided by an enterprise-focused team at the Sei Development Foundation, leveraging deep industry experience to accelerate modern enterprise development and connect resources across the ecosystem.

With global leaders across industry verticals, like Circle and Transak connecting international capital distribution, Binance bringing enterprise-grade rigor to securing the network, infrastructure providers like Chainlink enabling institutional-grade data and pricing, and new participants like OKX and Robinhood offering global access to the Sei ecosystem, a structure for adoption and distribution has been quietly forming across the network.

The establishment of the Market Infrastructure Grid is the codification of this growth into a finely tuned engine where every contribution — from a validator to a data stream to a trading venue — increases the performance, utility, and reach of the system itself.

The Market Infrastructure Grid is the foundation for the global adoption flywheel.

How the Market Infrastructure Grid Works

The Grid represents a flywheel of enterprise activity, the living proof of Sei’s long-term compounding adoption. It’s the crystallization of years of ecosystem growth. Existing protocols that are integrated with Sei serve as the foundation: compute, custody, liquidity, data integrity, and regulatory assurance, all established atop Sei’s real-time infrastructure with industry-leading execution and settlement.

The Grid provides a battle-tested plug-and-play foundation where any new enterprise-grade deployment can plug into this resource-rich landscape, and its own capabilities become an additional lever to the network. With consumer propagation and global distribution, this feedback loop accelerates Sei’s growth and deepens its utility across sectors.

Example:

• A financial institution connects through Sei for real-time settlement → seamlessly access custody partners, data providers, and liquidity venues already live.
• The institution's integration adds new flows, assets, and compliance tools → strengthening the framework for every future participant.
• That growth attracts more enterprises → expanding activity, throughput, and demand for Sei's underlying infrastructure.
• Result: a continuously self-reinforcing ecosystem — more cohesive and interactive with every participant.

A Shared Engine for Enterprise Growth

The Market Infrastructure Grid connects six core systems of modern enterprise operations:

• Security & Validation — global operators maintain uptime and performance at institutional standards.
• Liquidity & Settlement — tokenized assets and payments, operating in a real-time environment.
• Data & Transparency — authenticated data flows and price feeds from oracle and enterprise sources in real time.
• Distribution & Access — millions of wallets and consumer applications expanding global reach for enterprises.
• Innovation & Integration — enterprises building and extending new service capacities across open infrastructure.
• System Zero — System Zero represents ground zero of the Grid, the next-generation infrastructure that underpins all activity on Sei, from a parallelized EVM to 400ms finality.

These systems don’t exist in silos — they form a living graph that enterprises can connect, leverage, and contribute to.

What the Grid Enables

• Resource-rich plug-and-play ecosystem for enterprises looking to quick-start
• Wide network of battle-tested protocols to tap for long-term projects
• Real-time settlement of capital, assets, and data
• Authenticated information flow between onchain and off-chain systems
• Deterministic performance for enterprise-scale operations
• Composability that allows markets and applications to interoperate instantly

With more than 4B+ lifetime transactions and distribution to over 13M monthly active wallets, Sei already operates at the scale global markets demand. Now, its market-leading infrastructure is paired with a clear blueprint and an established ecosystem of global enterprises to enable the modernization of business operations.

For enterprises, the Market Infrastructure Grid offers:

• Seamless access to institutional-grade, battle-tested infrastructure
• A composable framework of contributors, custody, and liquidity to launch or scale onchain operations instantly
• The opportunity to contribute valuable data, products, or services that become available across the entire ecosystem

For the Sei Network and its participants, it drives:

• Increased onchain activity and ecosystem depth
• Stronger validator alignment and institutional trust
• Expanding liquidity and utility for Sei-based assets
• A durable moat — every new enterprise increases the network’s functionality, distribution and prestige

This is the enterprise flywheel in action: each new participant strengthens the system, expands distribution, attracts the next provider, and enhances the value of the entire ecosystem.

Building for a Giga Future

The infrastructure for modern markets is ready today, and yet unprecedented performance unlocks sit on the near horizon. Sei achieves 400ms finality, industry-leading throughput, and maintains enterprise-grade uptime secured by globally distributed enterprise validators — all before the Sei Giga upgrade which will further optimize the network for the future of global markets.

As Sei nears the Giga upgrade, and ~200k tps, the transition from individual integrations to a coordinated system — one where enterprises operate collectively on shared, high-performance rails — is preparing the ecosystem to achieve true global scale, enriched by coordinated network effects from global enterprises.

The Market Infrastructure Grid is not a static framework. It will continue to take shape as its core systems are examined in detail.

Built for Global Markets. Powering Global Enterprise.

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