What is Sei ?

Crypto Hunter
2 min readDec 11, 2022

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Sei is the industry’s first Tier 1 blockchain specialised for trading.

Sei’s mission is to create a better infrastructure for decentralised finance.

Sei has a number of optimisations:

  1. Proprietary order matching mechanism - provides scalability of DEX order book built on Sei
  2. Breaking Tendermint - Sei - fastest chain to final - about 600ms

3 . Twin-turbo consensus - improves latency and throughput

4 . Frontrunning protection - combats malicious frontrunning that is rampant in other ecosystems

5 . Market-based parallelization - specialized parallelization for DeFi

The combination of all optimisations makes new types of financial products possible, from real-time sports betting to sophisticated options and futures

Sei’s partners are Multicoin Capital, Coinbase, Delphi digital, HRT, GSR, Flow Trades, Sudoswap, Frax, Yield, Guild, Layer Zero, Step’n, Anchorage Digital.

The benefits of Sei

Highly Secure

  • Sei is secured by some of the most well-respected institutions and validators in the world.
  • Built using the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core, a tech stack that has been battle tested by some of the largest chains

Massively Scalable

  • Decentralized exchanges are here to stay. The next frontier is scaling them.
  • Sei is capable of scaling to support the largest exchanges in the world, truly making it the modern NASDAQ.

Specialized for Exchanges

  • Sei features a native order matching engine that any application can leverage to instantly spin up new markets.
  • Optimizations across the stack give exchanges every advantage they need to offer the best user experience.

The Fastest Chain

  • Sei is the fastest chain to finality in the market today - 5x faster than Solana.
  • The Sei infrastructure guarantees lightning-fast transactions without sacrificing security or stability.

New Financial Products

  • The combination of Sei optimizations make it possible for new types of financial products to emerge - everything ranging from live sports betting to complex options and futures.
  • As the first use-case specific Layer 1, Sei unlocks a new design space for financial applications in Web3.

Purpose-built

  • Decentralized exchanges succeed in spite of the Layer 1 infrastructure they are built on, frequently having to build around Layer 1 shortcomings.
  • Exchanges have a unique set of requirements unlike any other application - they demand high performance and constant reliability.

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