Sei Q2 2026: TMO Labs integrated Sei for Korean payments reaching tens of millions; EVM-only migration approved; native USDC via Circle CCTP now live; ZeroDev enabled smart accounts; network hit 5B transactions across 90M wallets.
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Sei's second-quarter 2026 achievements centered on mainstream payment adoption and major protocol transitions. Korean payment infrastructure firm TMO Labs integrated Sei into TMO Wallet, connecting the blockchain to domestic payment networks including Naver Pay, Payco, Happy Point, and L.POINT as well as transportation systems such as TMONEY, thereby reaching tens of millions of consumer access points across Korea's payment and rewards ecosystem.
The network announced its Giga upgrade roadmap targeting performance improvements of over 200,000 transactions per second with finality in under 400 milliseconds, with components already deployed on mainnet and full rollout continuing through 2026. The community approved SIP-3 to convert Sei into an EVM-exclusive chain, removing CosmWasm and native Cosmos functionality by mid-2026; exchanges and custodial services face integration deadlines ahead of this transition. Native USDC became available through Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol v2, eliminating reliance on bridged Cosmos-based liquidity.
Smart account infrastructure arrived via ZeroDev, furnishing developers with gas abstraction and session key capabilities. Sei disclosed crossing 5 billion total transactions and 90 million active wallets, positioning it as the leading EVM chain by user count. An updated whitepaper reinforced the network's emphasis on decentralized AI applications supported through execution performance and developer resources.