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Solana’s Alpenglow: A Faster Consensus with New Trade-Offs

By Vangelis, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade promises to deliver 100x faster finality. Developed by Anza's research division led by ETH Zurich's Professor Roger Wattenhofer, this upgrade replaces Solana's signature Proof of History and Tower BFT

American Dynamism as a Global Catalyst: Accelerating Toward New Frontiers

Reposted from the seifdn.org blog, authored by Gerald Gallagher, with permission. "The frontier of science remains endless. In a free society like ours, scientific progress depends on intellectual freedom, opportunity for all sorts of minds, competition among ideas and institutions, and a well-integrated partnership among government, higher education,

Accelerating Intelligence: Why AI Needs Sei

Artificial intelligence has the superhuman capacity to operate at machine speed, yet remains bottlenecked by human-mediated systems. The next wave of AI progress will come from systems gaining the ability to transact, coordinate, and improve autonomously through multi-agent economic networks. Today's agents can reason, generate content, write code,

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SIP-3 Update: Sei Moves Toward EVM-Only Architecture

The first feedback period for SIP-3 (EVM-Only) has concluded, and the response has been significant. The engagement from developers, infrastructure providers, and users demonstrates the community's commitment to the Sei protocol's evolution toward continual performance improvements as the fastest and most streamlined EVM chain. Following a

The SDF Manifesto: Innovation on the Endless Frontier

This blog has been reposted from the seifdn.com blog with permission. The Sei Development Foundation was founded on the belief that breakthrough infrastructure enables breakthrough innovation, and that America's technological leadership can serve as a catalyst for global progress. As AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies converge

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Sei Development Foundation Appoints Jamie Finn as Strategic Advisor

Fintech veteran and Securitize Co-Founder to advise on strategic growth and RWA adoption on Sei  NEW YORK - May 20, 2025 - Sei Development Foundation, a US-based non-profit focused on the advancement and adoption of open source protocols like Sei, today announced that Securitize Co-Founder Jamie Finn has joined as

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The Invisible Hand of DeFi

Introduction By Vangelis, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Special thanks to Niko for feedback and contributions. In October 2023, the Ethereum Foundation lost $9,101 in a sandwich attack while swapping 1.7 ETH via Uniswap V3. The MEV bot frontran the transaction, extracting $4,060 in profit

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Blockchain Bandits: How Public DA Creates New MEV Attack Vectors

By Ben Marsh, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Introduction One of the notable things about Autobahn, the consensus protocol used in the Sei Giga proof of concept, is the existence of concurrent rather than sequential block production. When a validator is creating a block they are doing so

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Sei Labs Proposes EVM-Only Architecture in Recently Launched Governance Framework

Sei Improvement Proposals (SIP) aim to simplify architecture and accelerate growth across EVM developer ecosystem NEW YORK - May 7, 2025 - Sei Labs today submitted a new Sei Improvement Proposal to deprecate CosmWasm and native Cosmos transactions in favor of a streamlined, EVM-only architecture. Sei Improvement Proposal-3 (SIP-3) is

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Sei Improvement Proposals: Your Blueprint for Shaping the Fastest L1

TL;DR: Today marks the launch of Sei Improvement Proposals (SIPs), a standardized framework for community-driven protocol evolution. Similar to EIPs and BIPs, SIPs create a clear path for anyone to propose, debate, and implement changes to Sei's ecosystem. This isn't just about governance, it'

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Sei Ecosystem Continues Momentum with Landmark ETF Filing in the U.S.

NEW YORK - April 30, 2025 - In a landmark moment for the Sei ecosystem, Canary Capital has filed an S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to register the first-ever SEI-based Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in the US. The proposed ETF would offer institutional and retail investors

Decentralizing DNA Data: Exploring Blockchain Solutions in a new Genomic Paradigm

Genomic data has been referred to as “the new gold” by ex-23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.  This article will explore relevant technical building blocks that could be incorporated into a next-gen genomic data platform to illustrate how these technical pieces could come together to serve users.  Flaws in Web2 Approaches to

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The VM Landscape: Comparing Architectures for Next-Generation Blockchains

Introduction Since Vitalik’s post about RISC-V the different approaches to VMs have come back to the front of everyone’s mind. In this post we recap a handful of approaches, run over their technical underpinnings and highlight some pros and cons of the approaches. The approaches in this work

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Crypto's New Math: From Narratives to REV

Market participants, humans (as long as AI is not conscious and follows humans’ intents), are ultimately the ones that determine the value of an asset and behavioral economics have proven that most humans do not act as rational agents.  When we attempt to evaluate blockchain networks we often fall into

What Is Account Abstraction? Why It’s Necessary For Web3

Managing private keys doesn’t come easily to people new to web3.  Users need to set up complicated wallets and keep their private keys secure to sign transactions when needed. However, it can become quite intimidating when users are required to sign transactions repeatedly whenever they’re trying to perform

Beyond Throughput: Performance and UX on Sei

Sei is accelerating forward, not just by scaling throughput, but by becoming the most performant and user-friendly Layer 1 blockchain for real-world applications. In December 2024, Sei Labs published 'Giga: the Path to 50x Improvements on the EVM' a technical roadmap for scaling to 5 gigagas per second.

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Autobahn: Sei Giga's Multi-Proposer Approach to Blockchain Consensus

Introduction Unlike earlier PoS designs, Tendermint offered deterministic guarantees for consensus and eliminated the possibility of forks, which became a very influential model for modern PoS blockchains. However it still faces throughput limitations due to its single-proposer architecture. Sei Giga is using the Autobahn consensus mechanism, which is based on

USDT Migration Guide

Understanding USDT on Sei What is Kava USDT? On Sei Mainnet, a bridged form of USDT exists, which has been bridged from Kava via IBC. What is USDT0? USDT0 on Sei Mainnet is backed 1:1 by locked assets on Ethereum and ensures seamless interoperability across blockchain networks via the

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Building the Robot Economy: DePIN Tokenization as Capital Formation for Embodied AI

From unimodal to multimodal LLMs LLMs evolved from unimodal systems that process single data types (e.g., text) to multimodal systems capable of understanding and generating diverse modalities such as text, images, audio, video, and more. The introduction of transformer architecture in 2017 marked a pivotal moment in the history

Introducing the US-Based Sei Development Foundation

Sei Foundation, the independent organization dedicated to the governance of the Sei protocol, the most performant Layer-1 blockchain, today announces the funding of a U.S. non-profit focused on growth and awareness of the Sei protocol, the Sei Development Foundation. This new U.S.-based Foundation will offer builders and

What Are Gas Fees In Crypto? What You Need to Know

Gas fees are the fuel Ethereum network needs to process transactions on the chain. While banks charge a transaction fee, the Ethereum network charges gas. This fee keeps the network working effectively and helps prevent unnecessary transactions.  Are “gas fees” unique to Ethereum?  Several blockchain networks charge a transaction fee

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Proof of AI Agent will become even more critical than Proof of Humanity

When we last discussed the emergence of the next billion agents, we outlined an architectural framework to support this coming wave. Soon, individuals won’t just have one AI agent but an entire army of them, executing tasks on their behalf. AI systems now outperform specialized human experts, with models

What Are EVM-Compatible Blockchains? Benefits and Examples

80% to 90% of crypto developers are Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) developers.  Interestingly, these developers stick with the Ethereum environment and would oppose any proposal to switch to a new execution environment. Some of it is due to technical reasons and risks. However, a more significant part of the reason

Regulatory Clarity and the Future of Sei in Traditional Markets

We’re no longer building in fear of uncertain headlines. With greater regulatory clarity emerging in the United States, traditional financial institutions and RWA issuers have clearer pathways to blockchain adoption. This shift is particularly significant for Sei’s infrastructure, as banks and financial institutions can now approach digital asset

Sei More Campaign

Being an active voice on Sei comes with real benefits—expanding your network, gaining early access to unreleased projects, landing job opportunities, and unlocking exclusive perks like VIP merch. Now, those leading the conversation and helping drive Sei’s mindshare will see even greater opportunities. If you’re consistently posting,