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Request for Applications: RFPs for Sei EVM Builders

Request for Applications: RFPs for Sei EVM Builders

There is a lot to be excited about on Sei as we enter a new era of breakthrough EVM innovation at both the protocol and ecosystem layers: Protocol: With the upcoming Sei Giga upgrade, a comprehensive overhaul of the Sei protocol's execution, consensus, and storage layers that will

Collaborative Intelligence: Performant Blockchains Powering Private, Democratically-Governed AI

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Collaborative Intelligence: Performant Blockchains Powering Private, Democratically-Governed AI

Federated Learning (FL) and blockchain technology are emerging as a powerful combination for building decentralized AI systems. In FL, multiple devices or organizations collaboratively train an AI model without sharing their raw data, preserving privacy. A blockchain can provide a tamper-proof, decentralized infrastructure to coordinate this training and govern the

How Traditional Markets Could Benefit from Sei’s High-Performance Infrastructure

How Traditional Markets Could Benefit from Sei’s High-Performance Infrastructure

Sei's upcoming Giga upgrade will introduce the Autobahn consensus mechanism, a sophisticated hybrid system combining DAG-inspired parallel data dissemination with BFT consensus. Once implemented, this innovation is designed to achieve finality times of approximately 400ms while maintaining robustness across geographically distributed nodes, which is essential for global RWA

AI: The Monetization Layer of Blockchain – Onboarding the Next Billion-Agents

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AI: The Monetization Layer of Blockchain – Onboarding the Next Billion-Agents

The Next Billion Users: AI Agents, Not Humans It seems that every week there’s a new major announcement in AI. We’re clearly standing at the threshold of something quite profound, something at least as profound as the internet has been. Another shift in digital interactions. The next billion

Running the Financial System at Internet Scale: How Sei Can Transform Traditional Asset Markets

Running the Financial System at Internet Scale: How Sei Can Transform Traditional Asset Markets

The blockchain industry stands at a crucial intersection with traditional finance as Real World Assets (RWAs) increasingly migrate and gain adoption onto tokenized networks. With Sei V2 and EVM compatibility setting new technical standards, and the Sei Foundation's aggressive growth plans for 2025, we're entering a

Sei Giga: Achieving 5 Gigagas with Autobahn Consensus

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Sei Giga: Achieving 5 Gigagas with Autobahn Consensus

The Sei Labs team were able to get 5 gigagas throughput in a 40-node network distributed across 4 regions in an internal devnet. This is a significant step forward in our mission to scale blockchain infrastructure for the next billion users. This post is the first in a series diving

Sei Ecosystem Builders Gitcoin Funding Round

Sei Ecosystem Builders Gitcoin Funding Round

The Sei Builders Round 1 on Gitcoin is designed to retroactively recognize and support native builders who have made a significant, measurable impact on the Sei ecosystem since the launch of Sei V2 (July 9, 2024). This round consists of two distinct funding tracks: Consumer-Facing Contributions and Infrastructure & Tooling.

Sei Creator Fund: Round #5 Results - Video Content Creation

Sei Creator Fund: Round #5 Results - Video Content Creation

The Sei Creator Fund's fifth round, focused on Video Content Creation and Community Engagement, has successfully concluded. Through our continued partnership with Gitcoin, this round has highlighted the expanding influence and engagement of Sei’s creator community. TL;DR * A matching pool of 1,066,098 SEI tokens

By Vangelis Andirkopoulos, Ben Marsh - Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative

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Unleashing AI Agents: How Blockchain Enables True Digital Autonomy

Imagine the day when you wake up on a summer morning and the dull repetitive aspects of your life are already handled for you and all you have to worry about is doing whatever you want to do. Your AI agents are trading on your behalf and managing your portfolio,

Optimizing ECDSA Signature Verification: Exploring Zero-Knowledge Proofs in the Sei Giga Blockchain

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Optimizing ECDSA Signature Verification: Exploring Zero-Knowledge Proofs in the Sei Giga Blockchain

Following Sei Protocol’s recent Giga announcement outlining the path to achieving 5 gigagas per second on the EVM, we identified several key areas for optimization. One bottleneck in the existing Sei Giga protocol prototype that jumped out was the issue of signature recovery and verification. We wondered, given the

Sei Street Team - A Quarter Million Dollar Initiative Supporting Sei Creators

Sei Street Team - A Quarter Million Dollar Initiative Supporting Sei Creators

When an ecosystem puts its community first, it starts with empowering creators. Building on this belief, the Sei Foundation launched the Sei Street Team to put creators at the center of Web3’s biggest moments. The program covers all travel, accommodations, and conference passes, ensuring that financial barriers don’t

The Sei Foundation's Vision for 2025

The Sei Foundation's Vision for 2025

Vincent Van Gogh once said that “great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” This has been our story at the Sei Foundation over the past year. While the foundations of the Sei community have been firmly established and our technology has set new standards with

From Deep Web to Deep Learning: The Props Revolution

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From Deep Web to Deep Learning: The Props Revolution

By Ben Marsh - Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative Special thanks to Jake, and Naman for feedback and discussions. The Sei blockchain is not just another high performance network. It is the bedrock on which new, trust-anchored data solutions can thrive. Approximately 95% of humanity's data

Sei Creator Fund: Round #5 - Video Content

Sei Creator Fund: Round #5 - Video Content

Sei Creator Fund Overview The Sei Creator Fund, a $10 million initiative, is launching its fifth round with a $250,000 USD matching pool. This round focuses on Video Content Creation and Community Engagement, aiming to support creators building on Sei and contributing to the ecosystem’s growth. Round Description

64.85% of Ethereum Transactions Can Be Parallelized

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64.85% of Ethereum Transactions Can Be Parallelized

Special thanks to Yannis, Gurnoor, Pavel, Ren, Lefteris, and Evan for feedback and discussions. Introduction In this post, we'll clarify the concepts of sequential, concurrent, and parallel execution in blockchains, highlight the differences between dependent and independent transactions—both abstractly and specifically in Ethereum's EVM—and

Giga: the Path to 50x Improvements on the EVM

Giga: the Path to 50x Improvements on the EVM

Over the past few years, we have built up one core thesis - the EVM is here to stay. Nearly every crypto native developer uses the EVM, and the EVM has built a moat through the tooling, mindshare, and community that has built up around it. Although the EVM is

Scaling the EVM from First Principles: Reimagining the Storage Layer

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Scaling the EVM from First Principles: Reimagining the Storage Layer

Special thanks to Philippe Dumonet, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Patryk Krasnicki, dcbuilder.eth, Evan Pappas, Rishin Sharma, Anastasios Andronidis, for feedback and discussions. Introduction The storage layer of blockchain virtual machines is critical as it manages persistent data such as smart contracts and accounts, as well as their internal states and variables.

Introducing the Sei Research Initiative

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Introducing the Sei Research Initiative

Sei Labs and the Sei Foundation are opening up the dialogue with third party researchers, thought leaders and external contributors to explore the limits of the EVM under the Sei Research Initiative. The Sei Research Initiative shares Vitalik's view that Ethereum's multi-client philosophy strengthens the ecosystem

Advancing Sei’s Developer and Gaming Ecosystems via Creator Funding

Advancing Sei’s Developer and Gaming Ecosystems via Creator Funding

Sei Creator Fund: Rounds 3 & 4 Results TL;DR * The Sei Creator Fund has successfully concluded two parallel rounds focusing on Sei’s Developer Ecosystem (Round 3) and Web3 Gaming (Round 4). * The combined matching pool of 1,162,790 SEI (approximately $500,000 at $0.43 per SEI)

Filament, Sei Network’s Native Derivatives DEX, Secures $1.1 Million in Seed Funding

Filament, Sei Network’s Native Derivatives DEX, Secures $1.1 Million in Seed Funding

September 17, 2024 – Filament, a hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX) for derivatives on the Sei Network that is optimized for speed and trade efficiency in low-liquidity environments, today announced that it has successfully raised $1.1 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by Lingfeng Innovation Fund, with

Sei GG: The Gauntlet Gaming Competition & Creator Fund Round #4

Sei GG: The Gauntlet Gaming Competition & Creator Fund Round #4

We’re excited to announce two parallel initiatives happening on Sei: 1. Sei GG: The Legendary Gauntlet, a three-week-long gaming competition for Web3 gamers with $50,000 in prizes. 2. Creator Fund Round #4 for Web3 gaming creators, offering $250,000 in grants to support projects that contribute to the

Creator Fund Round #3: Sei Developer Ecosystem

Creator Fund Round #3: Sei Developer Ecosystem

Sei Creator Fund Overview The Sei Creator Fund, a $10 million initiative, is launching its third round with a $250,000 USD matching pool. This round focuses on Educational Content, Developer Tools, Smart Contract Development, Integration, and Documentation, aiming to support developers building on Sei. Round 3 Details Topic: Sei

Sei Creator Fund: Round 2 Results - Empowering Creative Media and IP Development

Sei Creator Fund: Round 2 Results - Empowering Creative Media and IP Development

TL;DR * The Sei Creator Fund's second round, focused on Creative Media and IP Development, has successfully concluded. * A matching pool of 1,108,333 SEI (approximately $332,499.90 at $0.3 per SEI) supported creators in the Sei ecosystem. * As a surprise to the community, The

Sei Creator Fund Round #2: Creative Media and IP Development

Sei Creator Fund Round #2: Creative Media and IP Development

Funding Amount: $250,000 USD worth of SEI (price taken at round close) Sei Creator Fund Overview The Sei Creator Fund, a $10 million initiative, launched its first round on June 4th, 2024, marking a major milestone in nurturing the Sei ecosystem. In The Kickoff Round, a $250,000 matching

Sei Foundation Launches $50 Million Japan Ecosystem Fund to boost Gaming, Social, and Entertainment Sectors

Sei Foundation Launches $50 Million Japan Ecosystem Fund to boost Gaming, Social, and Entertainment Sectors

Introducing the Sei Japan Ecosystem Fund The Sei Japan Ecosystem Fund is a dedicated initiative launched in recognition of the blossoming crypto startup space in Japan that aims to accelerate the growth of these startups on Sei. Launched by the Sei Foundation, this venture fund will provide robust support for