February 17, 2025

#414: Jay Jog, Co-Founder of Sei Labs, on L1s vs. L2s, Solving EVM’s Scalability Issues, Stablecoin Tooling, and Unlocking Web2-level Performance for Web3

33 minutes

Jayendra "Jay" Jog is the Co-Founder of Sei Labs, the team behind the Sei Network, a high-performance, low-fee, general-purpose blockchain designed for the best UX for developers and users. Before Sei, Jay was a software engineer at Robinhood, an experience that inspired his decision to build a layer-1 blockchain capable of Web2 scale.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- L1s vs. L2s
- Working at Robinhood during the Gamestop saga
- T+2 settlement period is archaic and crypto solves this
- Sei’s origin story
- Base layer blockchains
- The EVM is here to stay
- Solving the EVM’s scalability issues
- Unlocking Web2-level performance
- Sei’s Giga Roadmap
- Stablecoin tooling
- AI agents
- $SEI

Sei Labs
Website: www.sei.io
X: @Sei_Labs
Telegram: t.me/seinetwork

Jay Jong
X: @jayendra_jog
LinkedIn: Jayendra Jog

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