{"id":246900,"date":"2024-02-14T03:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=246900"},"modified":"2024-02-14T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:22:14","slug":"sei-upgrades-devnet-with-ethereum-compatibility-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/sei-upgrades-devnet-with-ethereum-compatibility-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Upgrades Devnet With Ethereum Compatibility &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The SEI token has surged 25% in the past week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sei, a high-speed Layer 1 blockchain, has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sei.io\/sei-v2-public-devnet\/\">launched<\/a> a second iteration of its Devnet.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade enables developers to deploy code compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on the Sei blockchain, according to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sei.io\/sei-v2-public-devnet\/\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of DeFi\u2019s most popular applications, like Uniswap and Aave, are EVM compatible, so Sei\u2019s shift opens up the possibility of a more vibrant ecosystem on the nascent blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>The release is not intended for users but rather for developers to experiment with deploying their applications.<\/p>\n<p><!--$!--><!--\/$--><\/p>\n<p>Sei bills itself as the \u201cfirst parallelized EVM.\u201d The concept of parallelized blockchains, or networks that can process many transactions at once, gained steam in December. SEI was a key player in this trend.<\/p>\n<p>The network\u2019s SEI token has continued its upward trajectory since then and now sits at $0.75 \u2014 the token recently became a top 50 digital asset with a $1.8B market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/sei\" class=\"no-underline\"><\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">SEI Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sei launched its mainnet in August and met <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/sei-network-launches-token-and-mainnet-beta\">some disappointment<\/a> from users regarding its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/airdrops\">airdrop<\/a>. The mainnet is currently incompatible with the EVM.<\/p>\n<p>The project contends that its design combines the best elements of Ethereum and Solana.<\/p>\n<p>Tushar Jain, co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, believes Sei\u2019s design will unlock EVM developers\u2019 potential.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot of a tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"646.046511627907\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto h-full max-h-[242px] w-full max-w-[628px]  object-contain\" id='b' style='filter: url(%23b)' src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F6oftkxoa%2Fproduction%2F7ab936b29acc27208cd662c8ddad174cf4da973c-1376x926.jpg&amp;w=828&amp;q=100\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Multicoin <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2022\/08\/31\/2507547\/0\/en\/Update-Sei-Raises-5M-Led-by-Multicoin-Capital-to-Build-the-First-Layer-1-Blockchain-Optimized-for-DeFi.html\">led<\/a> Sei\u2019s $5M seed round in 2022 and also participated in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2023\/04\/11\/2644459\/0\/en\/Sei-Labs-Raises-30M-to-Build-the-Layer-1-for-Trading.html\">$30M round<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEI token has surged 25% in the past week. Sei, a high-speed Layer 1 blockchain, has launched a second iteration of its Devnet. The upgrade enables developers to deploy code compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on the Sei blockchain, according to a release. Many of DeFi\u2019s most popular applications, like Uniswap and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-246900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246903,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246900\/revisions\/246903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}