Sei Giga v2, part 4: Sedna.
MCP is great for throughput and censorship, but introduces duplication.
Aptos claims 160k tps, but some transactions appear duplicated nearly 100 times, reducing their useful throughput by up to 100x (1.6k tps).
Sedna fixes this for Sei Giga 🧵
Sei Giga v2, part 4: Fast, stable consensus via Ambulance & Hermes.
We want the lowest latency for Sei Giga possible, but we want that to be both as fast as possible and also consistently finalizing new blocks. Ambulance & Hermes are the outcomes of studying these results.
Sei Giga v2, part 3: BUDs.
Sei Giga is too performant to simply serve merkle proofs to light clients and bridges. A Block Update Digest (BUD) commits to block diffs, so that size scales with per-block update volume, not total state size.
Sei Giga v2 series, part 1: the ordering model
Giga's Autobahn consensus finalizes a tip cut: a collection of proposals from multiple proposers. This fixes the set of txs and their ordering for future views. But how are txs ordered once a cut of proposals is finalized? 🧵
Announcing the Sei Giga v2 series:
in the coming days, I will go in detail through each of the technical and engineering efforts that motivated v2 of the whitepaper. From execution optimizations, to state proofs, to consensus.
Many of these are are applicable and necessary to many high-performance chains (or similar). Stay tuned!