Sei and Mastercard publish research on how financial institutions evaluate blockchain infrastructure across pilot and production stages.
Tech & Launches ·
Sei and Mastercard have published research exploring how financial institutions assess blockchain infrastructure, examining the stages from eligibility evaluation through pilot testing to production deployment and scaling. The joint paper from Sei follows Sei's entry into Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program in May 2026, marking a collaboration between the blockchain network and the payments giant on frameworks tailored to institutional adoption.
Sei is a layer-1 blockchain optimized for trading through parallel transaction execution, enabling finality in under 400 milliseconds. The network has been undergoing a significant architectural transition from a dual Cosmos-and-EVM design to an EVM-only structure, positioning itself for high-throughput financial applications where settlement speed matters competitively. Mastercard's involvement signals institutional interest in evaluating how blockchains meet the operational and compliance requirements of traditional financial services.
The precise scope of the research—which institutional concerns it prioritizes, what evaluation metrics it proposes, and whether it includes recommendations for specific blockchain features—remains unclear from the available material. The publication appears part of a broader effort by both organizations to clarify infrastructure readiness criteria, but details on audience, methodology, and actionable outputs have not been disclosed.