By Vangelis, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade promises to deliver 100x faster finality. Developed by Anza's research division led by ETH Zurich's Professor Roger Wattenhofer, this upgrade replaces Solana's signature Proof of History and Tower BFT systems with Votor and Rotor components, achieving deterministic| Sei Blog
Introduction By Vangelis, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Special thanks to Niko for feedback and contributions. In October 2023, the Ethereum Foundation lost $9,101 in a sandwich attack while swapping 1.7 ETH via Uniswap V3. The MEV bot frontran the transaction, extracting $4,060 in profit| Sei Blog
By Ben Marsh, Sei Labs Research for Sei Research Initiative. Introduction One of the notable things about Autobahn, the consensus protocol used in the Sei Giga proof of concept, is the existence of concurrent rather than sequential block production. When a validator is creating a block they are doing so| Sei Blog
Introduction Unlike earlier PoS designs, Tendermint offered deterministic guarantees for consensus and eliminated the possibility of forks, which became a very influential model for modern PoS blockchains. However it still faces throughput limitations due to its single-proposer architecture. Sei Giga is using the Autobahn consensus mechanism, which is based on| Sei Blog
From unimodal to multimodal LLMs LLMs evolved from unimodal systems that process single data types (e.g., text) to multimodal systems capable of understanding and generating diverse modalities such as text, images, audio, video, and more. The introduction of transformer architecture in 2017 marked a pivotal moment in the history| Sei Blog
Introduction Blockchain transaction ordering is a complex, high-stakes process. Block producers don't simply list transactions in the order they appear; instead, they solve a problem similar to the knapsack problem, selecting the mix of transactions that maximizes fee revenue while staying within block size or gas limits. Once this subset| Sei Blog
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| Sei
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
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 resides in| Sei
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.| Sei