Three years ago, trading was a category focused on exchanges, orderbooks, and crypto-native markets.

Today, the idea of trading has expanded to the exchange of value at global scale.

Sei has always been built for trading. The only thing that changed is what trading means.

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2057188573431157161?s=20

Coming next week, Jayendra sits down with the Mastercard team and Sumvin's Sjones.

A conversation on production readiness and the trajectory of onchain finance, right ahead of the joint Sei + Mastercard whitepaper.

📍 NY Tech Week
🗓️ June 2
See you Tuesday.

https://x.com/seinetwork/status/2059673453293408716?s=46

Introducing The Giga Roadmap

The first public roadmap of the milestones leading to the Giga Upgrade.

Implementing the Giga Upgrade to the live network is an extraordinarily complex engineering task.

Follow every step from here to Giga: http://giga.seilabs.io

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2060025118278209603?s=20

The blockchain for trading has a new home.

http://sei.io

Have you checked it out yet?

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2060411624746565736?s=20

Sei Ecosystem Weekly Updates

Shipping faster tech this week, with Tech Week next week.

The Giga roadmap is here, along with the network's fastest block times yet.

Here's what happened ahead of NY Tech Week 👇

🔴 The Sei Giga roadmap is live, the first public roadmap for the path to 200K TPS

🔴 Block times hit an all-time low of 0.36s as Sei Labs keeps shipping network upgrades

🔴 The v6.5 upgrade landed, halving block-time variation for speed AND consistency ahead of Giga

🔴 Check out the redesigned home for Sei if you haven't already

🔴 Jayendra Jog and Simon Jones of Sumvin are sitting down with the Mastercard team at NY Tech Week

🔴 Get on the list for the Sei x Sumvin happy hour to kick off NY Tech Week

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2061090572555759992?s=20

Giga is no small feat

The road ahead runs from Ares to Autobahn, a sequence of major upgrades on the path to ~200K TPS.

Last week, the public roadmap was revealed.

This week, Token Relations breaks it down 👇

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2061501495548506201?s=20

Tonight in New York

A live discussion of the Sei x Mastercard whitepaper, with Jayendra Jog and the Mastercard team.

See you there.

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2061859609942581471?s=20

The Sei Giga upgrade will introduce a fundamentally better trading experience.

From perps to RWAs to stablecoins and everything in between.

Sei is the blockchain for trading.

https://x.com/seinetwork/status/2062228579161624754?s=46

200K TPS.

Sei Giga is infrastructure for the modern economy.

https://x.com/seinetwork/status/2062955987561222208?s=46

Sei Ecosystem Weekly Updates

After a week alongside the brightest in tech and finance.

One thing is clear: Sei keeps coming up.

Here's what you missed at Tech Week and more 👇

🔴 Sei and Mastercard gave a first look at the joint whitepaper to the crowd at NY Tech Week, ahead of the public release

🔴 Monaco announced a research partnership with Fhenix focused on confidential onchain trading infrastructure

🔴 Messari dropped their Q1 state of blockchains, highlighting +350% QoQ RWA growth on Sei

🔴 Token Relations broke down the recently released Sei Giga roadmap

🔴 Sumvin and Sei rang in Tech Week with friends from all corners of AI and finance

🔴 Envio published a step-by-step guide to spin up an indexer and power your app on Sei with real-time data in minutes

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2063637605724684773?s=20

Privacy is coming to Sei.

Multi-proposer consensus, like Sei Giga's Autobahn, provides massive gains in throughput and speed.

The tradeoff: increased spam via duplicate transactions.

Sedna, an upcoming protocol from Sei Labs, removes spam while bringing privacy and MEV resistance to Giga

https://x.com/seinetwork/status/2065103032313086180?s=46

Introducing the Giga Whitepaper V2.

The first Giga Whitepaper laid out the fastest blockchain yet.

V2 brings privacy, predictability, & performance.

🔴 Sub-250ms finality
🔴 Pre-execution privacy
🔴 Protocol-level MEV resistance
🔴 200K+ TPS

https://x.com/seinetwork/status/2072352038932066417?s=46

Sei Ecosystem Weekly Updates

Sub-250ms finality. Pre-execution privacy. Institutional-grade predictability.

The Giga Whitepaper V2 laid out the most performant trading infrastructure yet.

Here's what else went down this week 👇

🔴 The Giga Whitepaper V2, in full

🔴 Sei Labs introduced Sedna, a pre-execution privacy layer on Giga. Jayendra Jog broke it down

🔴 Messari dropped research on how Giga brings MEV protection into the protocol itself

🔴 Sei Research Initiative published Ambulance, a successor to Autobahn and a leap in BFT consensus

🔴 Token Relations took a deep dive on MonacoTrading, covering everything you should know

🔴 Oku Trade launched Borrow 2.0, surfacing the best rates across 9 ecosystems, Sei included

🔴 RWA Foundation named Sei one of the fastest-growing RWA chains

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2073780942565412910?s=20

Sei Ecosystem Weekly Updates

Perp fees have grown 17x in four years.

Trading is blockchain's clearest demand signal, and Giga and Monaco are going to reshape it.

Here's what happened this week along the way 👇

🔴 Token Relations broke down the Giga Whitepaper V2

🔴 Jayendra Jog joined Jacquelyn Melinek for the Sei ecosystem call on Giga, Monaco, and privacy

🔴 Monaco shipped SDK v0.8.19, adding cross-margin support across risk buckets

🔴 Octav now tracks Sei portfolios, full position and PnL visibility for Sei users

🔴 0xturbanurban, Monaco CEO, on the SK Hynix debut and why market access needs to be redefined for a global, 24/7 world

🔴 Sei teased what's next for trading

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2076319922540433855?s=20

The Monaco testnet is live.

A central limit order book built by traders from Hudson River Trading, GSR, Jump Crypto, and Goldman.

Try it on the blockchain built for trading.

http://trade.0xmonaco.com

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2076654381894955515?s=20

The Sei x Binance US boost is live 🇺🇸

Beginning today through July 30.

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2077785670312239469?s=20

Sei Ecosystem Weekly Updates

From matching engines to MEV protection, the blockchain for trading is coming into form.

Here's what happened on Sei this week 👇

🔴 Monaco opened its public testnet, a trading network for spot, perps, and tokenized RWAs

🔴 Monaco's CEO 0xturbanurban explains the vision behind Monaco

🔴 MetaMask broke down MEV as a tax on your trades and how Giga's pre-execution privacy prevents it

🔴 BinanceUS boost is live

🔴 Sei Labs research explored funding-rate manipulation with pre-execution privacy on perp venues

🔴 Mach1 and Monte Carlo are live on Monaco testnet

🔴 Wonder what Monaco is? Let Claude explain

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2078863683959095454?s=20

ZeroDev is live on Sei.

Smart accounts, gas abstraction, session keys, cleaner wallet UX.

Better trading experiences are coming to Sei with ZeroDev under the hood.

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2079204742182658481?s=20

The best trading experiences have always run on an order book.

Every major market in finance is built on one.

Monaco brings that Wall Street-level execution to Sei.

Live on testnet now: https://trade.0xmonaco.com

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2080397761816793099?s=20

Introducing SIP-5: a post-quantum upgrade path for Sei.

SIP-5 is ready today, so that if a quantum threat emerges, every account has a route to quantum-safe security.

Meanwhile, Sei Labs is also building higher-performance cryptography that will replace it.

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2082115115395223930?s=20

The Giga Roadmap is filling out. Trading infrastructure is lining up.

The blockchain for trading is looking good here.

Here's what happened this week 👇

🔴 Sei Labs introduced Hermes, the final component of the Giga Roadmap

🔴 Sei Labs released the Sei 6.6 proposal, kickstarting two of the three major network upgrades that make up Sei Giga

🔴 SIP-5 was rolled out, a post-quantum upgrade path so every account has a route to quantum-safe security

🔴 ZeroDev went live with smart accounts on Sei, letting trading apps cover gas and batch approvals for better trading UX

🔴 RWA Foundation reported distributed asset value on Sei has reached $289M

Markets Move Faster on Sei. ($/acc)

https://x.com/SeiNetwork/status/2083924531442340341?s=20