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Layer 1 blockchain

Sei ticker SEI

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  • 40 cited sources

Summary

Delegated proof-of-stake chain whose node software (sei-chain) is built on forks of the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint. Sei calls its tuned consensus Twin Turbo: Tendermint-derived BFT voting with shortened timeouts, plus optimistic parallel execution that runs while validators vote, targeting about 400ms blocks. A block commits once validators holding more than 2/3 of voting power precommit it. Execution is an EVM using optimistic concurrency control; existing CosmWasm contracts still run, but new ones cannot be deployed, and SIP-3's final step would also switch off the remaining CosmWasm execution. The Giga upgrade is partly shipped: v6.6 (mainnet, 4 August 2026) made the new Ares execution client the default path for upgraded nodes and began a phased, operator-controlled Eidos storage migration, while the multi-proposer Autobahn consensus ships disabled until a separate network activation. 2361114162029

Design

System
Layer 1 blockchainSei mainnet (Cosmos chain ID pacific-1, EVM chain ID 1329) is a sovereign proof-of-stake chain with its own validator set; it does not settle to another chain and no Cosmos Hub shared-security arrangement was found. Under SIP-3 it is moving to EVM-only access: new CosmWasm deployments and IBC transfers are already disabled, and a shutdown of Cosmos-format transactions was announced for 15 June 2026 but was not confirmed as active in this review.
Settlement family
Cosmos SDK
Scarce resource
Stake (proof of stake)
State model
Accounts
Finality
Other
Who makes blocks
Validators from an active set capped at 40 (Sei technical reference), weighted by delegated SEI; the Seistream explorer showed 40 active validators on 2026-09-27. Unbonding takes 21 days. Proposer rotation in proportion to voting power is inferred from the Tendermint lineage rather than from a Sei-specific page.
Fork choice
No open weight-based fork choice: a height is decided by more than 2/3 precommits, and Sei documents every committed block as final with no reorganisation window. Conflicting commits would need at least 1/3 of voting power to double-sign; Sei's parameters permanently remove (tombstone) a double-signing validator but slash 0% of its stake.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Scalability
Gives up
Operational decentralization: consensus is limited to at most 40 active validators, and Sei's node page lists 16 cores, 256 GB RAM, a 2 TB high-IOPS NVMe drive and a 2 Gbps low-latency link. The chain also cannot commit blocks if more than 1/3 of voting power is offline, so a small group of large validators can halt it.Security is not listed as a design emphasis because Sei slashes 0% of stake for double-signing or downtime; a safety violation costs validators their position, not bonded SEI. Readers who count deterministic BFT finality as a security emphasis may reasonably disagree. The liveness point is inferred from the more-than-2/3 commit rule. Throughput figures appear only as classified claims in this profile.
Full node at home
Data-center class 891011Sei's node documentation lists 16 CPU cores, 256 GB DDR5 RAM, a 2 TB high-IOPS NVMe SSD and a 2 Gbps low-latency network without naming a node type; the sei-chain README gives a lower minimum of 64 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe and 16 cores. Archive nodes need 10 TB+ disks. Non-archive nodes keep about 28 hours of history by default and can join through state sync or snapshots. The rating describes the published hardware, not where a node must run.
Throughput claims
  • Lab benchmark: 5 1314Controlled benchmark; not observed network behavior.Gigagas per second (billions of EVM gas units per second), not transactions per second.Internal devnet result reported in the Giga whitepaper v2.0 (June 2026)Internal devnet of 40 nodes across 20 regions; node hardware is not stated on the reviewed pages, and Sei says the whitepaper publishes no validator hardware specification.Measured on Sei Labs' own internal devnet, not observed mainnet load; the reviewed pages do not say which consensus configuration the devnet ran, and Giga's Autobahn consensus is not active on mainnet. Gas per second depends on transaction mix and Sei's gas schedule, so it cannot be compared with another chain's gas or transaction figures. No workload, bandwidth or state-size details were published on the reviewed pages; the figure ignores propagation to ordinary full nodes and long-run state growth.
  • Theoretical peak: 200,000 tx/s 131415Theoretical peak; not comparable across chains or with observed load.Roadmap target (at 400ms finality) for a future public Autobahn testnet milestone; not a measurementSei's Giga pages present this as a public-testnet roadmap target, separate from the devnet measurement; the whitepaper blog post states it as network throughput without any test setup. Ignores propagation, state growth and spam or decoy load; not comparable with any other chain's figure.
  • Unclassified: 15,000 tx/s 16Unclassified; do not compare.Listed as 15,000+ for simple transfers under parallel execution in a sequential-versus-parallel table; the same table gives lower figures for token transfers, DEX swaps and complex contracts.Sei's parallelization page gives no method, hardware, window or network setup, so the figure is left unclassified. Describes the execution engine only; says nothing about consensus, propagation, state growth or whether full nodes keep up.
  • Unclassified: 100 4Unclassified; do not compare.Approximate megagas per second, from a table on Sei's EVM-differences documentation page; not transactions per second.Stated as an approximate table entry with no method, window or hardware; unclassified. Gas schedules differ between chains (Sei charges 72,000 gas for a storage write), so gas-per-second figures are not comparable across chains.
Headline figures are not comparable across chains. A theoretical peak is never a like-for-like number.

Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of Sei: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsUnknownNo protocol-level hash-locked or equivalent trust-minimized swap on Sei was reviewed; EVM contracts could implement one, but none was verified. Moving tokens through bridges is not an atomic swap.
Authenticated data publicationUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
Light clientsUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; Sei answers state-proof requests with IAVL-format proofs, which standard EVM proof verifiers reject, and names light clients as a use case, but no supported light-client path that checks proofs against block headers was documented. IBC, which relied on on-chain light clients, is disabled. 2122
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel layer anchored to Sei was reviewed.
Programmable spendingNative (protocol or core-team software) Earlier definitionSpend conditions are EVM smart contracts, and Sei lists account-abstraction entry-point contracts. Existing CosmWasm contracts still execute, but governance Proposal 115 blocked new uploads and instantiations, and SIP-3's final step would switch off the remaining CosmWasm execution. 1182023
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; no protocol feature for cancelling, delaying or reclaiming a payment, or for recovery through a predefined role or delay, was verified. Account-abstraction entry-point contracts are deployed on Sei and smart-contract wallets may offer recovery, but none was reviewed. 23
RollupsUnknownNo rollup settling to Sei was found in reviewed sources; absence was not exhaustively verified. Giga is an upgrade of Sei itself, not a rollup. 13
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
Reading these values
How this feature is provided
Built into the protocol, core-team software or independent software says where a feature lives and who can change it. These are implementation layers, not quality: core-team software is not closer to the protocol than independent software.
Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
The list of capabilities is incomplete. Do not read these rows as a chain leading or lagging overall.

Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for Sei
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersEstablished in the ecosystemDragonSwap (contracts listed under Saphyre), Sailor Finance, oku.trade (v3 contracts), DonkeSwapSei's ecosystem-contracts page lists AMM factory and router contracts for these venues, and DragonSwap's docs describe V1 pools and V2 concentrated-liquidity pools on Sei. dragonswap.app now redirects to saphyre.xyz, whose page describes leverage trading, so the AMM's current branding is unclear. Liquidity depth was not measured. 2337 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsEstablished in the ecosystemUSDC (Circle)Circle lists natively issued USDC on Sei (0xe15fC38F6D8c56aF07bbCBe3BAf5708A2Bf42392; 6 decimals per Sei's docs). Sei also lists USDT0 and Ondo USDY contracts, whose issuer arrangements were not reviewed. The older IBC-delivered USDC.n can no longer be redeemed over IBC; Sei advises swapping it for native USDC. 18232535 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsUnknownAlgorithmic or hybrid stablecoins on Sei were not reviewed. As of Sep 27, 2026.
BridgesEstablished in the ecosystemCircle CCTP V2 (domain 16), LayerZero V2 (endpoint 30280), Stargate, SymbiosisCircle lists Sei on CCTP V2; Sei's docs cover LayerZero V2 with 11 available verifier networks and list Stargate and Symbiosis contracts. IBC is disabled in both directions, so Sei no longer has a protocol-native bridge. Risk: Each bridge adds its own trust: CCTP relies on Circle's attestations, and LayerZero messages rely on the verifier networks and settings each application chooses; Sei's guide warns that LayerZero default settings are placeholders and that an unconfigured pathway fails. A bridged token is only as sound as its bridge and origin chain. Tokens that arrived over IBC and were not moved before it closed can no longer be redeemed that way. 21232436 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Block explorersEstablished in the ecosystemSeiscan (Etherscan team), Seistream (STAKEME), NG Explorer (Nodes Guru)Sei's explorer page lists these three for mainnet; Seiscan says it is built by the Etherscan team and Seistream covers both Cosmos and EVM views. Explorer data is provider-indexed, not canonical consensus. 262728 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Hardware walletsThinLedger (Sei EVM behind a switch that is off by default in Ledger Wallet; MetaMask route per Sei's docs)See custody rows: Ledger Wallet's code includes Sei EVM behind a switch that is off by default, and Sei's docs describe Ledger signing through MetaMask with the Ethereum or Sei device app; Trezor's page says it does not support Sei. Sei's wallet page also lists Arculus, which was not reviewed. 31333439 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for Sei
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerPartialSame as native: UnknownCan: Sign Sei EVM transactions on a Ledger device through MetaMask using the Ethereum app, per Sei's documentation
Can: Install a dedicated Sei app from the Ledger Live app catalog, per Sei's setup guide
Can: Check receive addresses on the device before sharing them
Cannot: Count on Sei appearing in Ledger Wallet: its Sei EVM module sits behind a feature switch that is off by default, and no Ledger page confirming it is on was found
Cannot: Use Ledger Wallet for sei1 accounts: its code has no module for Sei's Cosmos side, and Sei's docs describe the older Cosmos-app flow as deprecatedLedger Wallet's code includes Sei EVM but hides it unless a remotely controlled switch is turned on, and that production setting could not be read; Ledger's own Sei pages returned 404. The MetaMask route comes from Sei's documentation. A February 2026 Sei blog post says Ledger Enterprise, Ledger's institutional platform, supports Sei token sends and receives; that is Sei's statement, not a Ledger page, and does not describe consumer use. 303132383940 As of Sep 27, 2026.
TrezorNone foundSame as native: NoCannot: Manage SEI in Trezor SuiteTrezor's Sei page says Trezor does not currently support Sei. Whether a Trezor can sign Sei EVM transactions through a third-party EVM wallet on a custom network was not verified. 34 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Public data

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Public-data lookups for Sei
LookupStatusWhat it covers and its limits
Address or accountNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
Tokens and assetsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
NFTsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
TransactionsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.

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Sourced developments

Developments: Review overdue Reviewed Sep 27, 2026; next review was due Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 27, 2026 Next check due Oct 27, 2026.

All 40 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. Sei documentation home (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  2. Twin Turbo Consensus (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  3. Finality and Block Tags (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  4. Sei EVM vs Ethereum: Key Differences (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  5. Gas and Fees (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  6. Sei Technical Reference (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  7. Sei Blockchain Staking Guide (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  8. Node Operations on Sei (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  9. Node Types (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  10. Sei Node Operations Guide (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  11. sei-protocol/sei-chain (external site)Sei Protocol contributors · retrieved
  12. sei-chain v6.6.0 release notes (external site)Sei Protocol contributors · retrieved
  13. What Is Sei Giga? (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  14. Sei Giga Technical Specification (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  15. Sei Labs Publishes the Giga Whitepaper V2 (external site)Sei Blog · retrieved
  16. Sei Parallelization Engine (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  17. Sei Network Accounts: Dual Address System (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  18. SIP-03 Migration Guide (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  19. Sei EVM Upgrade for Exchanges and Custodians (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  20. SIP-3: EVM only (external site)sei-protocol/sips · retrieved
  21. Sei Network Interoperability Framework (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  22. State Proofs (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  23. Ecosystem Contracts (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  24. LayerZero V2 on SEI (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  25. USDC on Sei (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  26. Sei Blockchain Explorers Guide (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  27. SeiScan (external site)Etherscan · retrieved
  28. Seistream Sei explorer (external site)STAKEME · retrieved
  29. Seistream validators (external site)STAKEME · retrieved
  30. Ledger Enterprise Now Supports Sei Network (external site)Sei Blog · retrieved
  31. Hardware Wallets (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  32. Ledger Hardware Wallet Setup Guide for Sei (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  33. Sei Wallet Providers Guide (external site)Sei Documentation · retrieved
  34. Sei wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  35. USDC Contract Addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  36. CCTP supported blockchains (external site)Circle · retrieved
  37. DragonSwap documentation (external site)DragonSwap · retrieved
  38. Ledger Wallet coin module loaders (ledger-live develop branch) (external site)Ledger (LedgerHQ/ledger-live on GitHub) · retrieved
  39. Ledger Wallet feature switch for Sei EVM (currencySeiNetworkEvm) (external site)Ledger (LedgerHQ/ledger-live on GitHub) · retrieved
  40. Ledger Wallet feature-switch definitions (a switch declared without a value is off by default) (external site)Ledger (LedgerHQ/ledger-live on GitHub) · retrieved

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