A friend of mine who works in an institution used to have a very fixed daily work rhythm: monitoring the market during the day, waiting for settlement at night, and basically shutting down on weekends. He always thought this was normal, until recently he told me: "I've realized the market is moving 24/7, but our system is still stuck in the last era." The problem isn't that he's not professional enough,
but that finance is starting to disregard the exchange's schedule.
And everything that happened at @SeiNetwork this week
answered one question:
When finance never goes off duty, what should the settlement layer look like?
And everything Sei did this week,
essentially, was solving the same problem:
ensuring money keeps pace with price.
If I had to summarize Sei's week in one sentence:
Finance is starting to wait for no one.
1️⃣ 24/5 US Stock Pricing: Prices finally stop sleeping.
@Chainlink pushed 24/5 US stock pricing data streams onto the blockchain,
and @MonacoTrading became one of the first venues to consume this data.
The truly significant aspect of this isn't the "US stock market,"
but rather:
👉 Prices are starting to deviate from traditional trading hours.
When prices don't sleep,
the financial system must also keep sleeping.
This is precisely the moment Sei has been waiting for.
2️⃣ Tokenized Treasury Bonds Exceed $9 Billion: Slow Assets Also Want to Speed Up
@SeiNetwork presented a striking statistic:
Tokenized Treasury Bonds: $9 billion
Corporate Cash Market: $8 trillion
Currently, it only accounts for 0.1%.
But if you look at it from another angle:
Treasury bonds, an asset that is "extremely slow,"
once they enter a real-time settlement system,
they are no longer just "deposits,"
but rather a liquidity tool that can be repeatedly used.
The requirements for the settlement layer are
not high TPS,
but stability, speed, affordability, and the ability to operate sustainably over the long term.
3️⃣ 5 Billion Transactions: The Chain is Truly Being Used as a "System"
Data from @everstake_pool:
Sei's total transaction volume has surpassed 5 billion,
and DAA is nearing an all-time high.
This isn't inflated figures,
but rather something you can clearly feel:
Sei is starting to act like a "financial underlying system,"
rather than just an activity platform.
4️⃣ DAU +214%, Funds Flowing Within Applications
@TokenRelations' report directly names:
Sei's DAU increased by 214% year-over-year. Active users come from:
@YeiFinance
@TakaraLend
@matchfighters They all share one thing in common:
You need money for them to have value.
There's no emotional narrative,
only financial efficiency.
5️⃣ Price Prediction Market Launched: Finance Becomes More "Instant"
@BlitsTrade launched Tap Trading, and the price prediction market runs directly on Sei.
In essence, it boils down to this:
👉 When settlement is fast enough, price can directly translate into product value.
This is precisely what traditional finance has been unable to achieve.
6️⃣ Simultaneous Research Advancements: Not a Sprint, But a Roadmap
@Mysten_Labs × @Sei_Labs jointly released Sedna, addressing the structural issues of latency and censorship under high throughput.
@Sei_Labs is researching how stablecoins can extend the US dollar's monetary policy.
This illustrates one thing:
Sei is already writing the future as an "institutional-grade financial infrastructure."
This week's conclusion is not that assets must first be on-chain,
but rather that the settlement system must be in place first, before assets dare to come.
This week, Sei seems to be telling the market:
You just focus on accelerating finance,
and leave the rest to me.
Many chains are still teaching users how to play,
Sei is already letting finance run itself.
When you find that:
stocks, government bonds, stablecoins, and prediction markets
all default to the same settlement rhythm,
you'll look back and realize that this week was one of the turning points.
Markets move faster on Sei. ($/acc)
