$I felt the same as everyone else when the GME wave hit; I could only curse Robinhood for "only allowing selling, not buying." Only later did I learn that behind the scenes, if the platforms hadn't halted trading during those few days, they would have been required to deposit collateral with traditional clearing houses several times their capital. The old financial settlement system was completely incapable of withstanding the rhythm of a coordinated network-wide attack.
At that time, there was a man coding on the front lines, and he truly took this gap to heart.
That person is @jayendra_jog, one of the co-founders of Sei Labs now.
Other people saw GME as an exciting story;
He saw the reality behind the scenes:
The frontend market is already real-time, global, and a single click on a phone can place an order instantly,
But the settlement system behind it is still stuck in the past era—slow, rigid, and expensive.
So, a path like this finally emerged: rather than continuously patching the old system, it is better to build a new chain entirely, one that is truly born for the "modern market." This is @SeiNetwork today. In my opinion, Sei's greatest advantage is not merely "high TPS," but several simple yet extremely difficult things:
From day one, it was designed as an "on-chain Wall Street underground server," unlike general blockchains that try to do everything.
It treats "real-time settlement, verifiable execution, and all global users being connectable" as basic necessities, not add-on features.
The performance target goes straight to two hundred thousand TPS, truly providing room for the markets of the next few decades.
You may not understand the technical details, but one thing is very easy to grasp:
If an extreme event like GME back then ran on the traditional settlement system, the only option was to be forced to hit the pause button;
But if it runs on Sei, which was entirely rebuilt for the "modern market," it is inherently ready for that kind of speed.
So now, when I mention @SeiNetwork, it's no longer just about "high performance" or "fast transactions."
To me, Sei is the answer from a group of people who once saw the limits of the old system and dared to start over from scratch.
Markets will only move faster,
and Sei is the rail that is brave enough to accept that speed.
Markets Move Faster on Sei.
