Sei token valued at $1.8B after beta launch, exchange listings

Layer one buying and selling blockchain Sei Community has reached a completely diluted valuation of $1.eight billion on the preliminary day of token itemizing.

On August 15, main exchanges resembling Binance, Bybit and Bitget collectively listed the community’s native token (SEI). On Binance, the token opened at $0.064 apiece earlier than surging as excessive as $0.48. It at the moment trades at $0.18 on the time of publication. The whole provide is 10 billion SEI and the preliminary provide is 1.eight billion SEI. 

The identical day, Sei launched the beta section of its mainnet. Builders declare that in its alpha section, the blockchain noticed over 400 million transactions and seven.5 million take a look at wallets created. Sei claims that its community can finalize transactions inside 0.5 seconds and course of as much as 20,000 at a time. 

Constructed on the Cosmos software program growth package, Sei is designed to scale the buying and selling capabilities of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) with its matching engine and order front-run prevention instruments.

“Present Internet three infrastructure is unscalable, congested, and nonetheless too sluggish,” mentioned Jeff Feng, co-founder of Sei Labs, whereas mentioning that 30 Sei functions are scheduled to launch by the top of the yr. Amongst different tasks, DEX Sushiswap plans to launch a perpetual futures alternate on the Sei protocol.

Builders constructing on Sei have entry to a $120 million ecosystem growth fund, partly attributable to alternate MEXC World’s $20 million contribution in January. In April, the agency raised $50 million for its ecosystem fund from Bitget and enterprise capital agency Foresight Ventures. Simply days prior, Sei closed a $30 million spherical at a valuation of $800 million. The agency held its seed spherical of $5 million in August 2022. 

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