How institutions actually adopt blockchain: new research with Mastercard
A joint report from Mastercard and the Sei Development Foundation on how financial institutions evaluate blockchain infrastructure and take it to production.
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The Eidos Upgrade: replacing Sei’s storage database while the chain is running
TL;DR: Every blockchain node has two jobs: compute what happens next on the chain, and store what has already happened. Storage is a critical bottleneck for all blockchains as they attempt to scale. If storage can't keep pace with the rate at which new transactions are executing,
Ares and Eidos, the first components of the Giga Upgrade, will go live in Sei 6.6
TL;DR: the proposal for Sei 6.6 is live, and it will be the release where Sei Giga starts touching mainnet. 6.6 will introduce the first pieces of two of the three major Giga upgrades: Eidos, a new storage layer that will begin moving the chain’s history
Keeping the Sei Network safe from quantum computers
TL;DR: Sei Labs has shared a new proposal, SIP-5, that lays out how existing accounts can stay safe once quantum computers are powerful enough to break today’s cryptography. The plan lets users keep current addresses and balances, allowing you to add a quantum-resistant key when you
Sei Labs Publishes the Giga Whitepaper V2
The Sei Giga Whitepaper V2 is a major update to the original Giga Whitepaper published in May 2025. It introduces significant performance improvements and new features to Sei Giga, redesigning Sei Network from first principles into a blockchain with the ideal architecture for onchain trading.
Read the full whitepaper at:
Infrastructure for the Modern Economy
The Blockchain for Trading
What SIP-03 means for exchanges and custodians
There four upgrade paths for exchanges and SEI token custodians. This integration must be completed by June 15, 2026, prior to Cosmos deprecation